State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain

Republics of the Possible
Herausgeber: Centeno, Miguel A.; Ferraro, Agustin E.

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines how Latin American countries and Spain tried to build modern and efficient state institutions for more than a century - without much success.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 484
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 817g
• ISBN-13: 9781107454392
• ISBN-10: 1107454395
• Artikelnr.: 41243274

Inhaltsangabe

1. Republics of the possible: state building in Latin America and Spain
Miguel Centeno and Agustin Ferraro; 2. The construction of national states,
1820-90: five cases, multiple variables Frank Safford; 3. State building in
Western Europe and the Americas before and in the long nineteenth century:
some preliminary considerations Wolfgang Knoebl; 4. The state and
development under the Brazilian monarchy: 1822-89 Jeffrey Needell; 5. The
Brazilian federal state in the old republic (1889-1930): did regime change
make a difference? Joseph E. Love; 6. The Mexican state, Porfirian and
revolutionary (1876-1930) Alan Knight; 7. Nicaragua: the difficult creation
of a sovereign state Salvador Martí; 8. Friends' tax. Patronage, fiscality
and state building in Argentina and Spain Claudia Herrera and Agustin
Ferraro; 9. Ideological pragmatism and non-partisan expertise in
nineteenth-century Chile: Andrés Bello's contribution to state and nation
building Iván Jaksic; 10. Militarization without bureaucratization in
Central America James Mahoney; 11. Between 'Empleomanía' and the common
good: successful expert bureaucracies in Argentina (1870-1930) Ricardo
Salvatore; 12. Elite preferences, administrative institutions, and
educational development during Peru's Aristocratic Republic (1895-1919)
Hillel Soifer; 13. Liberalism in the Iberian world 1808-25 Roberto Breña;
14. Visions of the national: natural endowments, futures, and the evils of
men Fernando López-Alves; 15. Spanish national identity in the age of
nationalisms José Alvarez Junco; 16. Census taking and nation making in
nineteenth-century Latin America Mara Loveman; 17. Citizens before the law:
the role of courts in post-independence state building in Spanish America
Sara Chambers; 18. Visualizing the nation: the mid-nineteenth-century
Colombian chorographic commission Nancy Applebaum; 19. Paper leviathans.
Historical legacies and state strength in contemporary Latin America and
Spain Miguel Centeno and Agustin Ferraro.