Week 3: Rights in Reform
Rights in Reform: Liberalism, Popular Liberalism
What were the nineteenth-century state-builders views on citizenship? Was state formation simply a top-down process? What was the impact of 鈥渆veryday forms of state formation鈥� on the development of ideas of citizenship an human rights? Should the abolitionist movement have a place in the history of Human Rights? How should that history be written (e.g. which protagonists and social actors should be considered)?
Core Readings:
Joanna Crow, ", Bulletin of Latin American Research, vol 36. 2017, pp. 285 298.
and
Jeffrey D. Needell. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020. (Introduction)
or
Camillia Cowling, "," Gender & History, 22:2 (August 2010): 284-301
Practical Assignment Preparation:
An铆bal Quijano is a well-known Peruvian social scientist who has written about Latin American development, modernity and "decoloniality" and Andean history and culture. Here, he take a long view of the history of Latin America since the conquest to talk about contemporary events in 2007. What themes does he touch on? Is this a useful piece of public history written for a public audience?
OR
Look at this blog by Erika Edwards, Associate Professor of Colonial Latin American History at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte, in which she historicizes her experience in Argentina. What do you think about it as a piece of public history?
Background Reading:
(Chapters 2 and 3)
Oxford Handbook, "Slavery in Brazil".
Further Reading:
George Reid Andrews.The Afro-Argentines of Buenos Aires, 1800-1900. University of Wisconsin Press: Madison, Wisconsin, 1980.
Carmagnani, Marcello. , University of California Press, 2011. (Chapter 4)
Celso Castilho. Slave Emancipation and Transformations in Brazilian Political Citizenship. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016.
Camillia Cowling, . Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013.
Camillia Cowling, "As a Slave Woman and as a Mother: Women and the Abolition of Slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro," Caribbean special issue (ed. Christopher Schmidt-Nowara), Social History, 26:3 (August 2011), 294-311
Camillia Cowling, "Debating Womanhood, Defining Freedom: The Abolition of Slavery in Rio de Janeiro," Gender & History, 22:2 (August 2010): 284-301
Camillia Cowling, "Funding Freedom, Popularizing Politics: Abolitionism and Local Emancipation Funds in 1880s Brazil," co-authored with Celso Castilho, Luso-Brazilian Review, 47:1 (Spring 2010): 89-120.
Jose虂 Carlos Chiaramonte, Hispanic American Historical Review 1 August 2010; 90 (3): 455–488.
Erika Denise Edwards. 鈥溾�� History Compass.16:7 2018.
Carlos A. Forment. Democracy in Latin America, 1760-1900. Volume 1, Civic selfhood and public life in Mexico and Peru University of Chicago Press, 2003.
Peter Guardino, 鈥淏arbarism or Republican Law? Guerrero's Peasants and National Politics, 1820-1846鈥�, Hispanic American Historical Review
Charles Hale. The Transformation of Liberalism in Late Nineteenth-Century Mexico. Princeton University Press, 1989.
Charles Hale, 鈥淭he reconstruction of nineteenth-century politics in Latin America: a case for the study of ideas.鈥�, Latin American Research Review, 5:2, 1973.
Alan Knight, "Rethinking Informal Empire in Latin America (Especially Argentina)", Bulletin of Latin American Research. 27: 1, 2008, 23-48.
Brooke Larson. Cambridge University Press.
Florencia E. Mallon. University of California Press 1995.
Vincent C. Peloso and Barbara Tenenbaum (eds.) Liberals, Politics and Power: State Formation in Nineteenth-Century Latin America. University of Georgia Press, 1996.
Tristan Platt. "", History Workshop Journal No. 17, (Spring 1984), 3-18.
Guy P. C. Thomson, 鈥淧opular Aspects of Liberalism in Mexico, 1848-1888, Bulletin of Latin American Research, Vol. 10, No. 3 (1991), pp. 265-292.
Sabato, Hilda. . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018.
James E. Sanders, "Citizens of a Free People": Popular Liberalism and Race in Nineteenth-Century Southwestern Colombia, Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 84, No. 2 (May, 2004), pp. 277-313.
James E. Sanders. The Vanguard of the Atlantic World: Creating Modernity, Nation and Democracy in Nineteenth-Century Latin America. Journal of World History. 20:1, 2019.
James E. Sanders, 鈥溾�� Journal of World History. 20:1, 2019.
Fiona Wilson. 鈥淚ndian Citizenship and the Discourse of Hygiene/ Disease in Nineteenth-Century" Bulletin of Latin American Research, 23:2, 2004. 165-180.