Week 8: Rights in Reform: Liberalism, Popular Liberalism and Informal Empire
Week 8: Rights in Reform: Liberalism, Popular Liberalism and Informal Empire
Seminar Questions:
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 and human rights? What role did the rising imperial interests have on state sovereignty and rights? How did Latin American citizens negotiate their rights in the nineteenth century?
Core Readings:
Joanna Crow, "", Bulletin of Latin American Research, vol 36. 2017, pp. 285 298.
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Erika Denise Edwards. 鈥溾�� History Compass.16:7 2018.
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Tristan Platt. "Liberalism and ethnocide in the southern Andes", History Workshop Journal No. 17, (Spring 1984), 3-18.
Practical Assignment Preparation:
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?
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)
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, 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.