| Other author/creator | Posada Carbó, Eduardo. |
| Other author/creator | Innes, Joanna. |
| Other author/creator | Philp, Mark. |
| Other author/creator | Oxford University Press. |
| Contents |
The project and the setting / Joanna Innes -- The language of democracy / Eduardo Posada-Carbó -- Iberian legacies / Anthony McFarlane -- Foundations, ruptures and fissures in British and French Caribbean political culture / Dexnell Peters -- Emerging states / Natalia Sobrevilla Perea -- From caste to race : re-imagining diversity in Spanish America / Nancy P. Appelbaum -- Democracy and liberal constitutionalism / José Antonio Aguilar Rivera and Eduardo Zimmermann -- Political cultures and practices in Spanish South American cities / Paula Alonso and Marcela Ternavasio -- Education, citizenship and contesting the future / Nicola Miller -- Democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean : the view from elsewhere / Carsten-Andreas Schulz and Mark Petersen -- Articulating democracy in Hispaniola : Haiti and the Dominican Republic / Emmanuel Lachaud -- An empire between republics : "democracy" in the constitutional monarchy of Brazil / Andréa Slemian -- Democracy in Mexico / Guy Thomson -- Democracy, "pardos" and slaves in Venezuela / Luis Daniel Perrone -- The allure of democracy in New Granada / Eduardo Posada-Carbó -- Moderating the democratic impetus : trajectories of democracy in Chile / Juan Luis Ossa. |
| Abstract |
"This book explores the ways in which people in Latin America and the Caribbean joined with others in Europe and the United States to re-imagine the ancient term "democracy", so as to give it relevance and power in the modern world. In all these regions, that process largely followed the French Revolution; in Latin America it more especially followed independence movements of the 1810s and 20s. The book looks at how a variety of political actors and commentators used the term to characterize or argue about modern conditions through the ensuing half-century; by 1870, it was firmly established in mainstream political lexicons throughout the region. Following introductory scene-setting and overview chapters, specialists contribute wide-ranging accounts of aspects of the context in which the word was "re-imagined"; six final chapters explore differences in its fortune from place to place"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2022062197 |
| ISBN | 9780197631577 (hardback) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
