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Armies, Politics and Revolution
This book studies the political role of the Chilean military during the years 1808-1826. Beginning with the fall of the Spanish monarchy to Napoleon in 1808 and ending immediately after the last royalist contingents were expelled from the island of Chiloé, it does not seek to give a full picture of the participation of military men on the battlefield but rather to interpret their involvement in local politics. In so doing, this book aims to make a contribution to the understanding of Chile's revolution of independence, as well as to discuss some of the most recent historiographical contributions on the role of the military in the creation of the Chilean republic. Although the focus is placed on the career and participation of Chilean revolutionary officers, this book also provides an overview of both the role of royalist armies and the influence of international events in Chile.
Representations of China in Latin American Literature (1987-2016)
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library as part of the Opening the Future project with COPIM. Representations of China in Latin American Literature (1987-2016) analyses contemporary Latin American novels in which China is the main theme. Using ‘China’ as a multidimensional term, it explores how the novels both highlight and undermine assumptions about China that have shaped Latin America’s understanding of ‘China’ and shows ‘China’ to be a kind of literary/imaginary ‘third’ term which reframes Latin American discourses of alterity. On one level, it argues that these texts play with the way that ‘Chin...
Contacts, Collisions and Relationships
A study of the relations between Britain and Chile during the Spanish American independence era (1806-1831). It focuses on the dynamic, unpredictable and changing nature of cultural encounters to cast doubt on the assumption that imperialism was their obvious outcome and to understand further nation-building processes.
Re-Imagining Democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1780-1870
"This book explores the ways in which people in Latin America and the Caribbean joined with others in Europe and the United States to re-imagine the ancient term "democracy", so as to give it relevance and power in the modern world. In all these regions, that process largely followed the French Revolution; in Latin America it more especially followed independence movements of the 1810s and 20s. The book looks at how a variety of political actors and commentators used the term to characterize or argue about modern conditions through the ensuing half-century; by 1870, it was firmly established in mainstream political lexicons throughout the region. Following introductory scene-setting and overview chapters, specialists contribute wide-ranging accounts of aspects of the context in which the word was "re-imagined"; six final chapters explore differences in its fortune from place to place"--
A History of Chile 1808–2018
An updated edition of the definitive, highly regarded history of Chile in the English language.
The New American Antiquarian, Volume III, Fall 2024
ISSN 2769-4100
Sports in South America
The first book to examine the transformation of sporting cultures in South America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Sports in South America follows the transformation of sporting cultures in South America leading up to Uruguay's hosting of the first FIFA Men's World Cup in 1930. Matthew Brown shows how South American soccer culture, envied worldwide, sprang out of societies that were already playing and watching games well before British sportsmen arrived to teach "the beautiful game." These vibrant and distinct sporting traditions, including cycling, boxing, cockfighting, bullfighting, cricket, baseball, and horse racing, were marked by South American societies' Indigenous and colonial pasts and by their leaders' desire to participate in what they saw as a global movement toward human progress. Drawing on a wealth of original archival research, Brown debunks legends, highlights the stories of forgotten sportswomen and Indigenous sports, and unpacks the social and cultural connections within South America and with the rest of the world.
Cuando íbamos a ser libres
En Chile "no hay liberalismo, todos son conservadores”, afirmaban los editores de un periódico obrero de Iquique a inicios del siglo XX. “No habiendo elecciones, no hay para qué buscar ideas liberales” había dicho otro publicista, en Copiapó, cinco décadas antes. Aunque la trayectoria de los liberales chilenos resulte opaca y en algunos pasajes hasta superflua, no sucede lo mismo con la historia del problema de las libertades y las reflexiones sobre el liberalismo como promesa de emancipación. Esa historia y dichas reflexiones han sido parte de discusiones sustantivas que desbordan los límites con que usualmente se dibuja el campo liberal. Cuando íbamos a ser libres reúne y co...
El lenguaje de la secularización en América Latina. Contribuciones para un léxico
Este volumen es producto de una confluencia de experiencias historiográficas heterogéneas, forjadas en la práctica de la historia política, la historia religiosa y la historia conceptual desde diversos puntos de la geografía latinoamericana y reunidas en el grupo de trabajo, Religión y política, de la red Iberconceptos de historia conceptual comparada. Ofrece un acercamiento a la forma en que la producción histórica de campos diferenciados para lo político y lo religioso tuvo lugar en el lenguaje y, a través de éste, en las prácticas, instituciones y relaciones políticas. Está constituido por textos centrados en trayectorias semánticas específicas, estrechamente ligadas entr...
La democracia en Chile
Este libro introduce una mirada esencial sobre la historia de la democracia en Chile y la suma de esfuerzos tendientes a construir un estado de derecho moderno, cuyo desarrollo económico y social nos encamine efectivamente a la igualdad de oportunidades. Frente a la idea común de que el país ha tenido instituciones excepcionales en la región, o de aquella otra, opuesta, que considera su democracia como una simple máscara de autoritarismo, el autor -sin duda uno de los más reconocidos y agudos conocedores de nuestra historia contemporánea nos confronta con un original método de análisis. La democracia es descrita en estas páginas como una alegoría de aquella condición humana propi...
