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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457729203321

Autore

Larson Brooke

Titolo

Trials of nation making : liberalism, race, and ethnicity in the Andes, 1810-1910 / / Brooke Larson [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004

ISBN

1-107-14196-6

1-280-43757-X

0-511-61639-2

0-511-16544-7

0-511-16613-3

0-511-16418-1

0-511-31291-1

0-511-16498-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 299 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

980/.004/98

Soggetti

Indians of South America - Andes Region - Government relations

Andes Region Politics and government 19th century

Andes Region Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-289) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Andean landscapes, real and imagined -- Colombia : assimilation or marginalization of the Indians? -- Ecuador : modernizing Indian servitude as tu.

Sommario/riassunto

This book offers the first interpretive synthesis of the history of Andean peasants and the challenges of nation-making in the four republics of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia during the turbulent nineteenth century. Nowhere in Latin America were postcolonial transitions more vexed or violent than in the Andes, where communal indigenous roots grew deep and where the 'Indian problem' seemed so daunting to liberalizing states. Brooke Larson paints vivid portraits of Creole ruling eĢlites and native peasantries engaged in ongoing political and moral battles over the rightful place of the Indian majorities in these emerging nation-states. In this story, indigenous people emerge as



crucial protagonists through their prosaic struggles for land, community, and 'ethnic' identity, as well as in the upheaval of war, rebellion, and repression in rural society. This book raises broader issues about the interplay of liberalism, racism, and ethnicity in the formation of exclusionary 'republics without citizens'.