Improvements in transportation have increased the number of foreign travelers going abroad for bu... more Improvements in transportation have increased the number of foreign travelers going abroad for business, labor, and tourism.'In rare instances, such travelers may find themselves detained in a foreign country for alleged criminal conduct. Foreigners arrested or ...
Simón Bolívar, soon to become an icon of Latin American independence, wrote a celebrated document... more Simón Bolívar, soon to become an icon of Latin American independence, wrote a celebrated document, dated from Kingston, his place of temporary exile, on September 6, 1815. Bolívar's document, later known as the Jamaica Letter, made prophesies for Latin America's future, appraised its contemporary political conditions, and justified the region's current rebellions against the Spanish crown. Chief among the justifications for rebellion was the exclusion of American-born Spaniards, or creoles, from administration, government, and politics. Wrote Bolívar:We were cut off and, as it were, virtually removed from the world in relation to the science of government and administration of the state. We were never viceroys or governors, save in the rarest instances; seldom archbishops and bishops; diplomats never; as military men, only subordinates; as nobles, without royal privileges. In brief, we were neither magistrates nor financiers.
Este ensayo documenta tempranos intentos elitistas para lograr que los grupos populares, especial... more Este ensayo documenta tempranos intentos elitistas para lograr que los grupos populares, especialmente el artesanado, se unieran a asociaciones religiosas o políticas a fines de las décadas de 1830 y 1840. Los destinatarios contestaron a tales esfuerzos con distintos �repertorios de confrontación.� Una respuesta típica del pueblo fue la indiferencia. Otras, más complejas, incluyeron el acompañamiento/apoyo cauteloso y, más tarde, la reacción violenta, reflejo de los peligros inherentes a las alianzas forjadas entre distintas clases sociales. El artículo también se ocupa de otra modalidad de respuesta popular a comienzos de la década de 1850: el bandidismo. El líder supuesto de los asaltos populares fue el tristemente célebre abogado José Raimundo Russi cuyo destino trágico es indicativo de que, en sus esfuerzos por contener a las masas desbordadas, las elites suelen estar dispuestas a incurrir en un grado similar, e incluso aún mayor, de violencia que las mismas masas. Los temas tra...
Simón Bolívar, soon to become an icon of Latin American independence, wrote a celebrated document... more Simón Bolívar, soon to become an icon of Latin American independence, wrote a celebrated document, dated from Kingston, his place of temporary exile, on September 6, 1815. Bolívar's document, later known as the Jamaica Letter, made prophesies for Latin America's future, appraised its contemporary political conditions, and justified the region's current rebellions against the Spanish crown. Chief among the justifications for rebellion was the exclusion of American-born Spaniards, or creoles, from administration, government, and politics. Wrote Bolívar:We were cut off and, as it were, virtually removed from the world in relation to the science of government and administration of the state. We were never viceroys or governors, save in the rarest instances; seldom archbishops and bishops; diplomats never; as military men, only subordinates; as nobles, without royal privileges. In brief, we were neither magistrates nor financiers.
ABSTRACT The Americas 59.1 (2002) 127-128 This is an anthology of essays originally presented at ... more ABSTRACT The Americas 59.1 (2002) 127-128 This is an anthology of essays originally presented at a workshop at the University of Turin in early 1999. Judging by the presence of a few better-known scholars, such as M. Carmagnani and S. Serrano, the participants seem to have been professors from Italian and Latin American universities, although the volume provides virtually no information on the academic background of the contributors. They came together to discuss absolutism, constitutionalism, and the liberal order in Latin America as part of a larger international project on the guiding principles (norms and practices) of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century public administration and states in the region. The coordinator of the project and this edited volume is Marcelo Carmagnani, author of several works on the economic and social history of Chile and Mexico and larger syntheses of colonial and modern Latin American history. Coming on the heels of another workshop-related anthology, Marco Bellingeri's Dinámica del antiguo régimen y orden constitucional, this volume aims to evaluate historical changes brought about by the liberal constitutional order generally implemented in Latin America from the mid nineteenth century until the 1920s. According to Carmagnani, its principal virtue is the attempt to relate political culture, formal institutions (constitutions, laws and other norms), and social realities. He also argues that the contributors made an effort to keep away from the ideological views that tend to dominate the discussion of Latin America's liberal past. Apparently, the contributors are all convinced—Carmagnani certainly seems to be—that historians can adopt an entirely neutral ("non-ideological," pp. 1, 3, 7) approach when evaluating historical processes. Carmagnani holds that liberal institutions opened up all kinds of possibilities for individuals, taking advantage of their formal equality under the law, to transform not only their private worlds but also social and political life. Focusing particularly on constitutional provisions concerning civil and constitutional liberties and individual rights, the contributors try to discern the ways that political and social actors ("hombres" is the expression used by Carmagnani, pp. 3, 5) found and took advantage of new individual and collective means of action. The emphasis throughout the book seems to be on how liberalism gave birth to a new type of historical agent whose ideas and actions should become a central subject of historical research. Of the eleven essays in the anthology, four are dedicated to Mexico, four more to Argentina, two to Chile and one to Peru. The Mexico-related contributions examine the growing significance of statistics in fields such as criminal law, medicine, and hygiene (L. Mayer); the reactions of society and church before the civil registry in the southern region of Oaxaca (D. Traffano); the pace of economic and political reforms concerning free trade and its consequences (P. Riguzzi); and the impact of liberal reforms in the adoption of monetary and fiscal policies (M. Carmagnani). The essays on Argentina deal with the participation of the military in state-building (R. Forte); religious freedom and the role of Catholicism in nation-building (L. Zanatta); liberal administration of justice in Tucumán (S. Rex Bliss); and debates over tributary policies in the early twentieth century (A. Montequin). The sections on Chile address anti-secularization strategies used by the Catholic Church and conservatism (S. Serrano), and the liberal transformation of the administration of justice and the judiciary (M. R. Stabili). Finally, the essay on Peru evaluates the political significance and impact of statistics and the country's first population census (G. Chiaramonti). Unlike refreshing trends in the analysis of the liberal experience in Latin America by English and American scholars (Guardino, Mallon, LaFrance, Thomson), which emphasize liberalism's popular dimension and the people's insurgent appropriation of the liberal discourse, this anthology gives more emphasis to elite experiences, intellectual debates, and high politics. Nevertheless, the essays are engaging, well documented, and informative. Whether or not they deliver what the coordinator promises, they raise a number of intriguing issues and demonstrate the centrality of constitutional and legal structures in the understanding of...
... Blanning characterizes the argument at the start by showing how British golden jubilees broug... more ... Blanning characterizes the argument at the start by showing how British golden jubilees brought musical triumphs: George III (1809), Queen Victoria (1887), and Queen Elizabeth II (2002), the latter mingling popular and classical music before an audience of 200 million people. ...
... This may explain why, during her discussion of emergent “Creolism” and select debates over ci... more ... This may explain why, during her discussion of emergent “Creolism” and select debates over citizenship during the Cortes of Cádiz, Herzog once again focuses on the “discourse of love” in the ... In the introduction, Waldmann does a yeoman's job to justify their arrangement. ...
Improvements in transportation have increased the number of foreign travelers going abroad for bu... more Improvements in transportation have increased the number of foreign travelers going abroad for business, labor, and tourism.'In rare instances, such travelers may find themselves detained in a foreign country for alleged criminal conduct. Foreigners arrested or ...
Improvements in transportation have increased the number of foreign travelers going abroad for bu... more Improvements in transportation have increased the number of foreign travelers going abroad for business, labor, and tourism.'In rare instances, such travelers may find themselves detained in a foreign country for alleged criminal conduct. Foreigners arrested or ...
Simón Bolívar, soon to become an icon of Latin American independence, wrote a celebrated document... more Simón Bolívar, soon to become an icon of Latin American independence, wrote a celebrated document, dated from Kingston, his place of temporary exile, on September 6, 1815. Bolívar's document, later known as the Jamaica Letter, made prophesies for Latin America's future, appraised its contemporary political conditions, and justified the region's current rebellions against the Spanish crown. Chief among the justifications for rebellion was the exclusion of American-born Spaniards, or creoles, from administration, government, and politics. Wrote Bolívar:We were cut off and, as it were, virtually removed from the world in relation to the science of government and administration of the state. We were never viceroys or governors, save in the rarest instances; seldom archbishops and bishops; diplomats never; as military men, only subordinates; as nobles, without royal privileges. In brief, we were neither magistrates nor financiers.
Este ensayo documenta tempranos intentos elitistas para lograr que los grupos populares, especial... more Este ensayo documenta tempranos intentos elitistas para lograr que los grupos populares, especialmente el artesanado, se unieran a asociaciones religiosas o políticas a fines de las décadas de 1830 y 1840. Los destinatarios contestaron a tales esfuerzos con distintos �repertorios de confrontación.� Una respuesta típica del pueblo fue la indiferencia. Otras, más complejas, incluyeron el acompañamiento/apoyo cauteloso y, más tarde, la reacción violenta, reflejo de los peligros inherentes a las alianzas forjadas entre distintas clases sociales. El artículo también se ocupa de otra modalidad de respuesta popular a comienzos de la década de 1850: el bandidismo. El líder supuesto de los asaltos populares fue el tristemente célebre abogado José Raimundo Russi cuyo destino trágico es indicativo de que, en sus esfuerzos por contener a las masas desbordadas, las elites suelen estar dispuestas a incurrir en un grado similar, e incluso aún mayor, de violencia que las mismas masas. Los temas tra...
Simón Bolívar, soon to become an icon of Latin American independence, wrote a celebrated document... more Simón Bolívar, soon to become an icon of Latin American independence, wrote a celebrated document, dated from Kingston, his place of temporary exile, on September 6, 1815. Bolívar's document, later known as the Jamaica Letter, made prophesies for Latin America's future, appraised its contemporary political conditions, and justified the region's current rebellions against the Spanish crown. Chief among the justifications for rebellion was the exclusion of American-born Spaniards, or creoles, from administration, government, and politics. Wrote Bolívar:We were cut off and, as it were, virtually removed from the world in relation to the science of government and administration of the state. We were never viceroys or governors, save in the rarest instances; seldom archbishops and bishops; diplomats never; as military men, only subordinates; as nobles, without royal privileges. In brief, we were neither magistrates nor financiers.
ABSTRACT The Americas 59.1 (2002) 127-128 This is an anthology of essays originally presented at ... more ABSTRACT The Americas 59.1 (2002) 127-128 This is an anthology of essays originally presented at a workshop at the University of Turin in early 1999. Judging by the presence of a few better-known scholars, such as M. Carmagnani and S. Serrano, the participants seem to have been professors from Italian and Latin American universities, although the volume provides virtually no information on the academic background of the contributors. They came together to discuss absolutism, constitutionalism, and the liberal order in Latin America as part of a larger international project on the guiding principles (norms and practices) of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century public administration and states in the region. The coordinator of the project and this edited volume is Marcelo Carmagnani, author of several works on the economic and social history of Chile and Mexico and larger syntheses of colonial and modern Latin American history. Coming on the heels of another workshop-related anthology, Marco Bellingeri's Dinámica del antiguo régimen y orden constitucional, this volume aims to evaluate historical changes brought about by the liberal constitutional order generally implemented in Latin America from the mid nineteenth century until the 1920s. According to Carmagnani, its principal virtue is the attempt to relate political culture, formal institutions (constitutions, laws and other norms), and social realities. He also argues that the contributors made an effort to keep away from the ideological views that tend to dominate the discussion of Latin America's liberal past. Apparently, the contributors are all convinced—Carmagnani certainly seems to be—that historians can adopt an entirely neutral ("non-ideological," pp. 1, 3, 7) approach when evaluating historical processes. Carmagnani holds that liberal institutions opened up all kinds of possibilities for individuals, taking advantage of their formal equality under the law, to transform not only their private worlds but also social and political life. Focusing particularly on constitutional provisions concerning civil and constitutional liberties and individual rights, the contributors try to discern the ways that political and social actors ("hombres" is the expression used by Carmagnani, pp. 3, 5) found and took advantage of new individual and collective means of action. The emphasis throughout the book seems to be on how liberalism gave birth to a new type of historical agent whose ideas and actions should become a central subject of historical research. Of the eleven essays in the anthology, four are dedicated to Mexico, four more to Argentina, two to Chile and one to Peru. The Mexico-related contributions examine the growing significance of statistics in fields such as criminal law, medicine, and hygiene (L. Mayer); the reactions of society and church before the civil registry in the southern region of Oaxaca (D. Traffano); the pace of economic and political reforms concerning free trade and its consequences (P. Riguzzi); and the impact of liberal reforms in the adoption of monetary and fiscal policies (M. Carmagnani). The essays on Argentina deal with the participation of the military in state-building (R. Forte); religious freedom and the role of Catholicism in nation-building (L. Zanatta); liberal administration of justice in Tucumán (S. Rex Bliss); and debates over tributary policies in the early twentieth century (A. Montequin). The sections on Chile address anti-secularization strategies used by the Catholic Church and conservatism (S. Serrano), and the liberal transformation of the administration of justice and the judiciary (M. R. Stabili). Finally, the essay on Peru evaluates the political significance and impact of statistics and the country's first population census (G. Chiaramonti). Unlike refreshing trends in the analysis of the liberal experience in Latin America by English and American scholars (Guardino, Mallon, LaFrance, Thomson), which emphasize liberalism's popular dimension and the people's insurgent appropriation of the liberal discourse, this anthology gives more emphasis to elite experiences, intellectual debates, and high politics. Nevertheless, the essays are engaging, well documented, and informative. Whether or not they deliver what the coordinator promises, they raise a number of intriguing issues and demonstrate the centrality of constitutional and legal structures in the understanding of...
... Blanning characterizes the argument at the start by showing how British golden jubilees broug... more ... Blanning characterizes the argument at the start by showing how British golden jubilees brought musical triumphs: George III (1809), Queen Victoria (1887), and Queen Elizabeth II (2002), the latter mingling popular and classical music before an audience of 200 million people. ...
... This may explain why, during her discussion of emergent “Creolism” and select debates over ci... more ... This may explain why, during her discussion of emergent “Creolism” and select debates over citizenship during the Cortes of Cádiz, Herzog once again focuses on the “discourse of love” in the ... In the introduction, Waldmann does a yeoman's job to justify their arrangement. ...
Improvements in transportation have increased the number of foreign travelers going abroad for bu... more Improvements in transportation have increased the number of foreign travelers going abroad for business, labor, and tourism.'In rare instances, such travelers may find themselves detained in a foreign country for alleged criminal conduct. Foreigners arrested or ...
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