Lina del Castillo

Crafting a Republic for the World (eBook, ePUB)

Scientific, Geographic, and Historiographic Inventions of Colombia

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In the wake of independence, Spanish American leaders perceived the colonial past as looming over their present. Crafting a Republic for the World examines how the vibrant postcolonial public sphere in Colombia invented narratives of the Spanish "colonial legacy." Those supposed legacies included a lack of effective geographic knowledge, blockages to a circulatory political economy, existing patterns of land tenure, entrenched inequalities, and ignorance among popular sectors. At times collaboratively, and at times combatively, Colombian leaders tackled these "colonial" legacies to forge a republic in a hostile world of monarchies and empires. The highly partisan, yet uniformly republican public sphere crafted a vision of a virtuous nation that, unlike the United States, had already abolished slavery and included Indians as citizens. By the mid-nineteenth century, as suffrage expanded to all males over twenty-one, Colombian elites nevertheless tinkered with territorial divisions and devised new constitutions to manage the alleged "colonial legacy" affecting the minds of popular voters. The book explores how the struggle to be at the vanguard of radical republican equality fomented innovative contributions to social sciences, including geography, cartography, political ethnography, constitutional science, history, and the calculation of equity through land reform. Paradoxically, these efforts created a kind of legal pluralism reminiscent of the Spanish monarchy during the "colonial" period.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 402
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496205834
• Artikelnr.: 52824461

Autorenporträt

Lina del Castillo is an assistant professor of history and Latin American studies at the University of Texas at Austin.   

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations    
List of Tables    
Acknowledgments    
Introduction: Postcolonial Inventions of Spanish American Colonial
Legacies    
Chapter 1. Gran Colombian Print Culture and the Erasure of the Spanish
Enlightenment    
Chapter 2. A Political Economy of Circulation    
Chapter 3. Calculating Equality and the Postcolonial Reproduction of the
Colonial State     
Chapter 4. Political Ethnography and the Colonial in the Postcolonial
Mind    
Chapter 5. Constitutions and Political Geographies Harness Universal
Manhood Suffrage    
Chapter 6. Civic Religion vs. the Catholic Church and the Ending of a
Republican Project    
Conclusion: A Continental Postcolonial Colombia Challenges the Latin Race
Idea    
Notes    
Bibliography    
Index