The vanguard of the Atlantic world : creating modernity, nation, and democracy in nineteenth-century Latin America /
James E. Sanders.
- 1 online resource ( pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: American republican modernity -- Garibaldi, the Garibaldinos, and the Guerra Grande -- "A pueblo unfit to live among civilized nations" : conceptions of modernity after independence -- The San Patricio Battalion -- Eagles of American democracy: the flowering of American republican modernity -- Francisco Bilbao and the Atlantic imagination -- David Pena and black liberalism -- The collapse of American republican modernity -- Conclusion: a "gift that the New World has sent us".
9780822376132 (e-book)
Democracy--History--19th century.
Latin America--Politics and government--19th century. Latin America--History--19th century.