The vanguard of the Atlantic world : creating modernity, nation, and democracy in nineteenth-century Latin America - Sanders, James E., 1971- (Durham : Duke University Press, 2014)
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".
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Keywords: Democracy -- History -- 19th century; Latin America -- Politics and government -- 19th century; Latin America -- History -- 19th century; Electronic books