Nineteenth-Century Nation Building and the Latin American Intellectual Tradition: A Reader

by Burke, Janet; Humphrey, Ted

• ISBN13: 9780872208377
• ISBN10: 0872208370
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-03-01
• Publisher: Hackett Pub Co Inc

Summary

This volume provides readings from the works of eighteen Latin American thinkers of the nineteenth century, each of whom were engaged in examining and articulating the problems that Spanish and Portuguese America faced in the one hundred years after securing independence in 1810. All major regions of Latin America are represented, regions that differ significantly with regard to indigenous background, geography, climate and available resources. Nonetheless, their people confronted the common problems that surround the intractable challenges of statecraft and nation-building -- issues of race, international relations, economics, education, and self-understanding. Janet Burke and Ted Humphrey provide fresh, accessible translations; a general Introduction that sets the works to follow in historical and intellectual context; biographical headnotes for each contributor; a glossary; and a bibliography.

Table of Contents

"Address to the Angostura Congress, February 15, 1819, the day of its installation"	p. 3
"Address to the Constituent Congress of Bolivia" (1826) (selection)	p. 22
"On the expulsion of the natives and citizens of this republic born in Spain" (1827)	p. 26
"On ecclesiastical wealth" (1831) (selections)	p. 37
"Speech delivered at the installation of the University of Chile, September 17, 1843"	p. 53
"Response to Lastarria on the influence of the conquest" (1844)	p. 62
Investigations regarding the social influence of the conquest and the Spanish colonial system in Chile (1844) (selections)	p. 76
America (1865) (selections)	p. 91
"Chilean sociability" (1844) (selections)	p. 104
Facundo, or civilization and barbarism (1845) (selections)	p. 126
The socialist doctrine of the association of May (1846) (selections)	p. 150
The history of Mexico (1849-1852) (selection)	p. 175
Foundations and points of departure for the political organization of the Republic of Argentina (1853) (selections)	p. 201
"The scientific education of women" (1873) (selection)	p. 222
"The purpose of the normal school" (1884)	p. 227
Seven treatises : third treatise : "reply to a Pseudo-Catholic Sophist" (1882) (selection)	p. 236
"Our America" (1891)	p. 260
"The mission of the woman writer in Spanish America" (1895)	p. 269
"The present era," from the political evolution of the Mexican people (1900-1902) (selections)	p. 276
Rebellion in the backlands (1902) (selections)	p. 292
"The woman worker and the woman" (1904)	p. 312
The future of the Latin American nations (1906) (selections)	p. 320
The sick people (1909) (selections)	p. 343
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