Political Cultures in the Andes, 1750-1950

Informationen zum Autor Nils Jacobsen is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Mirages of Transition: The Peruvian Altiplano, 17801930.Cristóbal Aljovín de Losada is Director of the Master's Program in History at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima, Peru. He is the author of Caudillos y constituciones: Perú, 18211845. Klappentext A major contribution to debates about Latin American state formation, Political Cultures in the Andes brings together comparative historical studies focused on Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Peru from the mid-eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth. While highlighting patterns of political discourse and practice common to the entire region, these state-of-the-art histories show how national and local political cultures depended on specific constellations of power, gender and racial orders, processes of identity formation, and socioeconomic and institutional structures.The contributors foreground the struggles over democracy and citizens' rights as well as notions of race, ethnicity, gender, and class that have been at the forefront of political debates and social movements in the Andes since the waning days of the colonial regime some two hundred years ago. Among the many topics they consider are the significance of the Bourbon reform era to subsequent state-formation projects, the role of race and nation in the work of early-twentieth-century Bolivian intellectuals, the fiscal decentralization campaign in Peru following the devastating War of the Pacific in the late nineteenth century, and the negotiation of the rights of "free men of all colors" in Colombia's Atlantic coast region during the late colonial period. Political Cultures in the Andes includes an essay by the noted Mexicanist Alan Knight in which he considers the value and limits of the concept of political culture and a response to Knight's essay by the volume's editors, Nils Jacobsen and Cristóbal Aljovín de Losada. This important collection exemplifies the rich potential of a pragmatic political culture approach to deciphering the processes involved in the formation of historical polities.Contributors. Cristóbal Aljovín de Losada, Carlos Contreras, Margarita Garrido, Laura Gotkowitz, Aline Helg, Nils Jacobsen, Alan Knight, Brooke Larson, Mary Roldan, Sergio Serulnikov, Charles F. Walker, Derek Williams Zusammenfassung Collection of essays explores the processes by which political power was constructed in four Andean republics--Colombia! Ecuador! Peru! and Bolivia--during the two formative centuries of nation-state formation. Inhaltsverzeichnis About the Series ix Acknowledgments xi The Long and the Short of It: A Pragmatic Perspective on Political Cultures, Especially for the Modern History of the Andes / Nils Jacobsen and Cristobal Aljovin de Losada 1 Is Political Culture Good to Think? / Alan Knight 25 How Interest and Values Seldom Come Alone, or: The Utility of a Pragmatic Perspective on Political Culture / Nils Jacobsen and Cristobal Aljovin de Losada 58 Part One State- and Nation-Building Projects and Their Limitations 69 Civilize or Control:? The Lingering Impact of Bourbon Urban Reforms / Charles F. Walker 74 A Break with the Past? Santa Cruz and the Constitution / Cristobal Aljovin de Losada 96 The Tax Man Cometh: Local Authorities and the Battle Over Taxes in Peru, 18851906 / Carlos Contreras 116 Under the dominion of the Indian: Rural Mobilization, the Law, and Revolutionary Nationalism in Bolivia in the 1940s / Laura Gotkowitz 137 Part Two Ethnicity, Gender, and the Construction of Power: Exclusionary Strategies and the Struggle for Citizenship 159 Free Men of All Colors in New Granada: Identity and Obedience before Independence / Margarita Garrido 165 ...

Autorentext

Nils Jacobsen and Cristóbal Aljovín de Losada, eds.

Klappentext

A major contribution to debates about Latin American state formation, Political Cultures in the Andes brings together comparative historical studies focused on Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Peru from the mid-eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth. While highlighting patterns of political discourse and practice common to the entire region, these state-of-the-art histories show how national and local political cultures depended on specific constellations of power, gender and racial orders, processes of identity formation, and socioeconomic and institutional structures. The contributors foreground the struggles over democracy and citizens' rights as well as notions of race, ethnicity, gender, and class that have been at the forefront of political debates and social movements in the Andes since the waning days of the colonial regime some two hundred years ago. Among the many topics they consider are the significance of the Bourbon reform era to subsequent state-formation projects, the role of race and nation in the work of early-twentieth-century Bolivian intellectuals, the fiscal decentralization campaign in Peru following the devastating War of the Pacific in the late nineteenth century, and the negotiation of the rights of "free men of all colors" in Colombia's Atlantic coast region during the late colonial period. Political Cultures in the Andes includes an essay by the noted Mexicanist Alan Knight in which he considers the value and limits of the concept of political culture and a response to Knight's essay by the volume's editors, Nils Jacobsen and Cristóbal Aljovín de Losada. This important collection exemplifies the rich potential of a pragmatic political culture approach to deciphering the processes involved in the formation of historical polities. Contributors. Cristóbal Aljovín de Losada, Carlos Contreras, Margarita Garrido, Laura Gotkowitz, Aline Helg, Nils Jacobsen, Alan Knight, Brooke Larson, Mary Roldan, Sergio Serulnikov, Charles F. Walker, Derek Williams

Zusammenfassung
Collection of essays explores the processes by which political power was constructed in four Andean republics--Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia--during the two formative centuries of nation-state formation.

Inhalt

About the Series ix
Acknowledgments xi
The Long and the Short of It: A Pragmatic Perspective on Political Cultures, Especially for the Modern History of the Andes / Nils Jacobsen and Cristobal Aljovin de Losada 1
Is Political Culture Good to Think? / Alan Knight 25
How Interest and Values Seldom Come Alone, or: The Utility of a Pragmatic Perspective on Political Culture / Nils Jacobsen and Cristobal Aljovin de Losada 58
Part One
State- and Nation-Building Projects and Their Limitations 69
Civilize or Control:? The Lingering Impact of Bourbon Urban Reforms / Charles F. Walker 74
A Break with the Past? Santa Cruz and the Constitution / Cristobal Aljovin de Losada 96
The Tax Man Cometh: Local Authorities and the Battle Over Taxes in Peru, 1885–1906 / Carlos Contreras 116
“Under the dominion of the Indian”: Rural Mobilization, the Law, and Revolutionary Nationalism in Bolivia in the 1940s / Laura Gotkowitz 137
Part Two
Ethnicity, Gender, and the Construction of Power: Exclusionary Strategies and the Struggle for Citizenship 159
“Free Men of All Colors” in New Granada: Identity and Obedience before Independence / Margarita Garrido 165
Silencing African Descent: Caribbean Columbia and Early Nation Building, 1810–1828 / Aline Helg 184
The Making of Ecuador’s Pueblo Catolico, 1861–1875 / Derek Williams 207
Redeemed Indians, Barbarized Cholos: Crafting Neocolonial Modernity in Liberal Bolivia, 1900–1910 / Brooke Larson 230
Part Three
The Local, the Peripheral, and the Network: Redefining the Boundaries of Popular Representation in Public Arena 253
Andean Political Imagination in the Lat…