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Record Nr.

UNINA9910483061803321

Autore

Blumenthal Edward

Titolo

Exile and Nation-State Formation in Argentina and Chile, 1810–1862 / / by Edward Blumenthal

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019

ISBN

3-030-27864-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 366 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series, , 2634-6273

Disciplina

982.04

325.210983

Soggetti

Latin America—History

World history

Social history

World politics

Latin American History

World History, Global and Transnational History

Social History

Political History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction: The Floating Province of Exile -- 2. Political Displacement and Independence: Commerce, Indigenous Peoples and Exile (1810–1839) -- 3. Epistolary Exchange and the Exile Experience: Transnational Networks before the Nation -- 4. Political Exile, Labor Markets and Institution Building -- 5. The Practice and Politics of Exile: Nation-State Formation from Abroad -- 6. Exile Representations of Chilean Exceptionalism -- 7. Narratives of Exile, Narratives of Nationhood -- 8. Floating Provinces: Exile and the Formation of Independent Republics.

Sommario/riassunto

This book traces the impact of exile in the formation of independent republics in Chile and the Río de la Plata in the decades after independence. Exile was central to state and nation formation, playing a role in the emergence of territorial borders and Romantic notions of national difference, while creating a transnational political culture that



spanned the new independent nations. Analyzing the mobility of a large cohort of largely elite political émigrés from Chile and the Río de la Plata across much of South America before 1862, Edward Blumenthal reinterprets the political thought of well-known figures in a transnational context of exile. As Blumenthal shows, exile was part of a reflexive process in which elites imagined the nation from abroad while gaining experience building the same state and civil society institutions they considered integral to their republican nation-building projects.