| Description |
1 online resource (505 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Studies in the History of the Americas Series |
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Routledge Studies in the History of the Americas Series
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| Contents |
Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Maps -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Preface -- The Colombian Paradox -- Motivations and Methods -- Notes -- Introduction: Histories of Solitude -- Notes -- Part 1: Imagining a Republic -- 1. ""We Are Free Citizens"": Reimagining Colombia's Nineteenth-Century Political History -- The High Politics Narrative -- Popular Nation-Making in Colombia -- Nineteenth-Century Democracy -- The Regeneration -- Legacies -- Notes |
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2. Becoming the ""Country of Regions"": Race and Region in Nineteenth-Century Colombian Geography -- Criollo Descriptions of Late-Colonial New Granada: The Andes versus the ""Torrid Zone -- Province-by-Province: The Chorographic Commission of New Granada -- The Nation as an Array of Types and a Race -- Race, Nation, and Regions in the Regeneration -- Implications and Comparisons -- Notes -- 3. Colombia's Continental Contributions: Competing Hemispheric Divides in Nineteenth-Century America -- American Fraternity and Radical Patriotism: The 1810 Decade |
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A Brief American Alliance: European Doubts and the Congress of Panama -- Contesting Monroe: America for Americans and Europeans? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Part 2: Building a Public Sphere -- 4. New Granada's Lettered Public Sphere, the Legislature, and the Birth of a Republican Habitus -- A Brief Historiography -- Congress and the Foundation of the Republican Habitus -- Newspapers, Pamphlets, the Early Republican Public Sphere -- Final Reflections on the Public Sphere and Political Culture -- Notes |
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5. Debates on the Education and Citizenship of Indigenous People during the First Half of the Nineteenth Century in Colombia -- The Constitutional Crisis of 1808 and the Emergence of Republican Pedagogical Programs -- Republican Education (1821-1840): From Citizen to Miserable -- From Potential Citizens to Savages -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6. Popular Consumers, Foreign Goods, and Political Recognition in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Colombia -- The Wants, Tastes, and ""Peculiarities of the People -- Consumers and the Liberal Project -- Popular Consumers and Political Recognition |
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Citizenship and Consumption in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Colombia -- Notes -- Part 3: Crafting Citizenship -- 7. They Fined the ""Negro de la Bocina"": Sound, Hygiene, and Social Control in Colombia during the Early Twentieth Century -- Noise: An Undesirable Byproduct of Urban Modernization -- Hygiene and Sound -- Sonic Control as Social Control: Casting Aural Regimes -- Notes -- 8. Cultural Politics from Below: Crafting Citizenship in Colombia, 1930-1946 -- The Slow Opening of Culture -- Culture Becomes a State Service -- Private Cultural Initiatives -- Notes |
| Summary |
By combining chronological coverage, analytical breadth, and interdisciplinary approaches, this first volume out of 2 studies the histories of Colombia over the last two centuries as illustrations of the histories of democracy across the world |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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9. Darkening José Vasconcelos: Nation, Mestizaje, and The Cosmic Race in Black Terms, Colombia, 1930-1946 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Britto, Lina
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| ISBN |
9781003860969 |
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1003860966 |
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