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Exile and Nation-State Formation in Argentina and Chile, 1810–1862
This book traces the impact of exile in the formation of independent republics in Chile and the Río de la Plata in the decades after independence. Exile was central to state and nation formation, playing a role in the emergence of territorial borders and Romantic notions of national difference, while creating a transnational political culture that spanned the new independent nations. Analyzing the mobility of a large cohort of largely elite political émigrés from Chile and the Río de la Plata across much of South America before 1862, Edward Blumenthal reinterprets the political thought of well-known figures in a transnational context of exile. As Blumenthal shows, exile was part of a reflexive process in which elites imagined the nation from abroad while gaining experience building the same state and civil society institutions they considered integral to their republican nation-building projects.
Park, Tenement, Slaughterhouse
Welche Wahrnehmungen und Vorstellungen von ihrer Stadt hatte die Oberschicht im späten 19. Jahrhundert? Antonio Carbone zeigt dies exemplarisch am Beispiel von Buenos Aires, wo sich – an einem Wendepunkt der Geschichte des modernen Argentinien und der globalen Stadtgeschichte – nach dramatischen Cholera- und Gelbfieberepidemien eine breite Diskussion um die »Krise des Urbanen« entzündete, die zu einer partiellen Umgestaltung der Stadt führte. In seiner Kultur-, Sozial-, Global- und Umweltgeschichte nimmt er besonders drei urbane Brennpunkte in den Blick: die industriellen Schlachthöfe, die von Migrant_innen bewohnten Mietshäuser und einen Park im Stadtteil Palermo.
Empire to Nation
The fall of empires and the rise of nation-states was a defining political transition in the making of the modern world. As United States imperialism becomes a popular focus of debate, we must understand how empire, the nineteenth century's dominant form of large-scale political organization, had disappeared by the end of the twentieth century. Here, ten prominent specialists discuss the empire-to-nation transition in comparative perspective. Chapters on Latin America, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Russia, and China illustrate both the common features and the diversity of the transition. Questioning the sharpness of the break implied by the empire/nation binary, the contributors explore the many ways in which empires were often nation-like and nations behaved imperially. While previous studies have focused on the rise and fall of empires or on nationalism and the process of nation-building, this intriguing volume concentrates on the empire-to-nation transition itself. Understanding this transition allows us to better interpret the contemporary political order and new forms of global hegemony.
Ambitious Rebels
Murder, street brawls, marital squabbles, infidelity, official corruption, public insults, and rebellion are just a few of the social layers Reuben Zahler investigates as he studies the dramatic shifts in Venezuela as it transformed from a Spanish colony to a modern republic. His book Ambitious Rebels illuminates the enormous changes in honor, law, and political culture that occurred and how ordinary men and women promoted or rejected those changes. In a highly engaging style, Zahler examines gender and class against the backdrop of Venezuelan institutions and culture during the late colonial period through post-independence (known as the “middle period”). His fine-grained analysis shows...
Democracia, hora cero
El 10 de diciembre de 1983 Raúl Alfonsín asume como presidente constitucional luego de siete años de una feroz dictadura militar y varias décadas de ciclos de violencia política, represión estatal, restricciones electorales y golpes de Estado. Ese acontecimiento es visto como la «llegada de la democracia», un cambio abrupto en los valores sobre la violencia del pasado y el descubrimiento de los derechos humanos. ¿Qué comenzaba y qué terminaba ese 10 de diciembre? Democracia, hora cero pone en cuestión la primera etapa alfonsinista como un todo homogéneo e indaga en actores, prácticas, debates y sentidos de esos primeros tiempos de la posdictadura para presentar un mosaico hist...
Recasting the Nation in Twentieth-Century Argentina
Recasting the Nation in Twentieth-Century Argentina tackles the meaning of "the nation" by looking to the geographical, ideological, and political peripheries of society. What it means to be Argentine has long consumed writers, political leaders, and many others. For almost two centuries prominent figures have defined national values while looking out from the urban centers of the country and above all Buenos Aires. They have described the nation in terms of urban experience and, secondarily, by surrounding frontiers; they have focused on the country’s European heritage and advanced an entangled vision of race and space. The chapters in this book take a dynamic new approach. While scholars and political leaders have routinely ignored the country’s many peripheries, the Argentine nation cannot be reasonably understood without them. Those on the margins also defined core tenets of the nation. This volume will be vital reading for those interested in how Latin American societies emerged over the past two centuries and for those curious about how ideas outside of the mainstream come to define national identities.
Contingency in International Law
This volume brings together a group of renowned experts to discuss the question of whether international law could have developed differently. Contributors explore contingency in theory and practice across a range of fields, including those related to migrants and refugees, the sea and natural resources, and human rights.
Social Alternatives in Southern Europe and Latin America
This book deals with the evolution of initiatives connected to the social and solidarity economy and their political cultures and educational implications in the south of Europe and in Latin America. Employing a comparative perspective, the contributors present 11 studies of these trajectories in Argentina, Chile, Portugal, France, Italy, Spain, and Catalonia in order to engender familiarity with social tributary practices and projects in the Latin world. As the cyclical crises of capitalism and their resulting inequalities have created proposals of reform and brought them into action, certain shared ideological influences and policies have emerged across these societies. Faced with the interpretative schemes used for the Anglo-Saxon sphere, which have been the usual reference in international research, this volume’s geographical and cultural matrix of analysis helps fill a longstanding gap in this field. The book will be of interest to scholars, educators, and students specialising in the history and political science of the social and solidarity economy sectors, as well as professionals involved in cooperatives, mutual aid societies, and associations.
Políticas de nacionalidad en América Latina. Escalas espaciales y contiendas jurídicas
En este libro se indaga la figura jurídica de la nacionalidad, forjada en el siglo xix que desde entonces ha servido para separar a los nacionales de los originarios de otros países. Esa figura jurídica sirve de marco a la ficción política de una comunidad de semejantes frente a la cual se recorta la extranjería. Con una mirada puesta en los procesos de larga duración y una aproximación transdisciplinar a las políticas de nacionalidad, en esta obra se estudia la especificidad de América Latina. En la exploración de esas políticas, se trabajó declinando diferentes escalas espaciales al tiempo que, desde una dimensión histórica, se examinaron algunas de las diversas articulaciones entre marcos jurídicos, prácticas administrativas y estrategias individuales que han regulado la conversión de extranjeros en nacionales. Los trabajos reunidos en este libro buscan contribuir a la comprensión de temas complejos y urgentes, iluminando con rigor el intrincado panorama de la migración y la nacionalidad en el contexto global que caracteriza al mundo contemporáneo.
