Indigenous Citizens

Caplan, Karen D.

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“…We may be faced with a context in which the political structures simply do not reflect more stratified social structures. 11 So it was that plebian folks also adapted liberalism to their political understandings and imagined possibilities. It is becoming increasingly clear that historians can no longer refer to a basic schism between imported, top-down elite models of liberalism locked in conflict with popular, collectivist, vernacular conservativism of a sort that would spurn the constitutionalists in favor of populist caudillos.…”

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Liberalism and Constitutionalism in Latin America in the 19th Century

Adelman¹

2014

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For generations, 19th century Latin American history has been portrayed as a period of anarchic turmoil, wasted energy, and pointless division. It was the age of caudillos and of political breakup. But recent evidence paints a very different picture. More and more historians see the period from 1821 (when the wars of independence ended) to 1860s as an era of experimentation and innovation, of building new institutions to replace the old. This essay reprises some of the primary lines of investigation. It explores the ways in which Latin Americans built a hybrid model of constitutionalism, adapted from elements circulating around the Atlantic world. It explores how people charted new meanings of citizenship by applying new legal tools and practices of public organization in the civic sphere. It examines the experiments in political organizing and vertical alliances. Finally, it suggests that older intellectual and ideological coordinates of secular vs religious, liberal vs conservative, fail to capture the very strong emphasis on pragmatic republican strains in 19th century statebuilders.As the bicentenary of independence in Latin America unfolds, historians have been caught between two rival narrative traditions. One emphasizes the heroic efforts of great men to build nations out of the remnants of colonies and rubble of revolutions. This is often called historia patria and has lost a lot of its appeal among professional historians, though it remains popular, not least among nationalist politicos like Cristina Kirchner and the late Hugo Chávez. The other tradition recounts the failures and impossibilities of building freedom in Latin America, and it remains the prevailing view among academic historians.When Napoleonic troops swept into the Iberian Peninsula in 1807, they set in train a crisis of imperial sovereignty that would shudder and eventually sunder the political and legal systems that bridged Europe's first empires with Europe's first American colonies. This unleashed a prolonged struggle on both sides of the Iberian Atlantic over principles of rulership and practices of politics -to yield scarred memories of divisions, violence, and turmoil that has dominated the historic narratives of state formation. Simón Bolívar, even before the final declarations severing the ties between Latin America and Spain and Portugal, pronounced that the secession was only the first, and possibly less violent, stage of the revolutionary process of making new regimes. Americans, he argued, kept under the yoke of three centuries of colonial servility, had been "unable to acquire knowledge, power or civic virtue." About to be free, they were bereft of the conditions to manage their freedoms. 1 Ever since, the Bolivarian framing has dominated the master narrative of Latin American independence among academic historians. This dismal view of the revolutions had consequences for how to think about the decades that came after. One effect of the Bolivarian frame is that it has been more or less taken for granted that the aftermaths re...

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Liberalism and Constitutionalism in Latin America in the 19th Century

Adelman¹

2014

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Yucatecan–Mexican Relations at the Time of Independence: The Yucatecan Pronunciamiento of 1821

Ali

2013

Bull Latin American Res

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This article will explore local Yucatecan politicking and the Yucatecan-Mexican relationship at the time of independence, using Yucatán's pronunciamiento for independence in September 1821 as a case study. This examination will highlight the fact that, while local ambitions played a significant role in Yucatán's bid for independence, this did not necessarily detract from Yucatecans' attempts to not only engage with national political movements, but also to unite with Mexico. This in turn will take further historians' recent attempts to revise the traditional perception of Yucatán as one of the more pro-autonomous and isolated states of early nineteenth-century Mexico.

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Justicia, Infrajusticia Y Sociedad en México

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Liberalism and Constitutionalism in Latin America in the 19th Century

Liberalism and Constitutionalism in Latin America in the 19th Century

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