The vanguard of the Atlantic world : creating modernity, nation, and democracy in nineteenth-century Latin America /
James E. Sanders.
- xi, 339 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-329) and index.
Introduction: American republican modernity -- Garibaldi, the Garibaldinos, and the Guerra Grande -- "A pueblo unfit to live among civilized nations" : conceptions of modernity after independence -- The San Patricio Battalion -- Eagles of American democracy: the flowering of American republican modernity -- Francisco Bilbao and the Atlantic imagination -- David Peña and black liberalism -- The collapse of American republican modernity -- Conclusion: a "gift that the New World has sent us".
978-0-8223-5780-3
América Latina--Historia--Siglo XIX América Latina--Política y gobierno--Siglo XIX