| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 288 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 A Troubled Belle Epoque -- 2 Nationalists -- 3 Rewriting Chile -- 4 Prose, Politics, and Patria from Alessandri to the Popular Front -- 5 For Culture and Country -- 6 Teaching the Nation -- 7 The Three Rs -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
Highlighting the crucial yet largely overlooked role played by society's middle layers in the historical development of Latin America, Patrick Barr-Melej provides the first comprehensive analysis of the rise of Chile's middle-class reform movement and its profound impact on that country's cultural and political landscapes. He shows how a diverse collection of middle-class intellectuals, writers, politicians, educators, and bureaucrats forged a "progressive" nationalism and advanced an ambitious cultural-political project between the 1890s and 1940s. Together, reformers challenged the power of elite groups and sought to quell working-class revolutionary activism as they endeavored to democratize culture and fortify liberal democracy. Using sources that range from archival documents and newspapers to short stories, novels, and school textbooks, Barr-Melej examines the reform movement's cultural ideas and their political applications, especially as they were articulated in the areas of literature and public education. In the process, he provides a new framework for understanding Chile's cultural and political evolution, as well as the complicated place of the middle class in a society experiencing the swift changes inherent in capitalist modernization |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267]-279) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Middle class -- Chile -- History -- 20th century
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Education -- Chile -- History -- 20th century
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Social Classes.
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Education
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Middle class
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Politics and government
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Mittelstand
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Reformpolitik
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Hervormingen.
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Middenklassen.
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Nationalisme.
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CLASE MEDIA -- CHILE -- HISTORIA -- SIGLO 20.
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EDUCACION -- CHILE -- HISTORIA -- SIGLO 20.
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| SUBJECT |
Chile -- Politics and government -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91005381
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Chile
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Chile
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CHILE -- POLITICA Y GOBIERNO -- SIGLO 20.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0807875619 |
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9780807875612 |
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9780807826041 |
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0807826049 |
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9780807849194 |
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0807849197 |
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