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| Title: | Nineteenth Century Nation Building & the Latin American Intellectual Tradition
: A Reader |
| Author: | Janet Burke & Ted Humphrey (eds) & Translators |
| ISBN: | 0872208389 : 9780872208384 |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 155x230mm |
| Pages: | 366 |
| Weight: | .63 Kg. |
| Published: | Hackett Publishing - April 2007 |
| List Price: | 32 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Latin America: Western philosophy; from c1900- |
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.
Simón Bolívar (Venezuela/Colombia): "Address to the Angostura Congress, February 15, 1819, the Day of Its Installation" / "Address to the Constituent Congress of Bolivia" (1826) (selection); José María Luis Mora (Mexico): "On the Expulsion of the Natives and Citizens of This Republic Born in Spain" (1827) / "On Ecclesiastical Wealth" (1831) (selections); Andrés Bello (Venezuela/Chile): "Speech Delivered at the Installation of the University of Chile, September 17, 1843" / "Response to Lastarria on the Influence of the Conquest" (1844); José Victorino Lastarria (Chile): Investigations Regarding the Social Influence of the Conquest and the Spanish Colonial System in Chile (1844) (selections) / America (1865) (selections); Francisco Bilbao (Chile): "Chilean Sociability" (1844) (selections); Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (Argentina): Facundo, or Civilization and Barbarism (1845) (selections); Esteban Echeverría (Argentina): The Socialist Doctrine of the Association of May (1846) (selections); Lucas Alamán (Mexico): The History of Mexico (1849–1852) (selection); Juan Bautista Alberdi (Argentina): Foundations and Points of Departure for the Political Organization of the Republic of Argentina (1853) (selections); Eugenio María de Hostos (Puerto Rico): "The Scientific Education of Women" (1873) (selection) / "The Purpose of the Normal School" (1884); Juan Montalvo (Ecuador): Seven Treatises: Third Treatise: "Reply to a Pseudo-Catholic Sophist" (1882) (selection); José Martí (Cuba): "Our America" (1891); Soledad Acosta de Samper (Colombia): "The Mission of the Woman Writer in Spanish America" (1895); Justo Sierra (Mexico): "The Present Era," from The Political Evolution of the Mexican People (1900-1902) (selections); Euclides da Cunha (Brazil): Rebellion in the Backlands (1902) (selections); Clorinda Matto de Turner (Peru): "The Woman Worker and the Woman" (1904); Francisco Alonso de Bulnes (Mexico): The Future of the Latin American Nations (1906) (selections); Alcides Arguedas (Bolivia): The Sick People (1909) (selections).
