Positivism and Nationalism in 19<sup>th</sup> Century France and Mexico

Eastwood, John D.

doi:10.1111/j.1467-6443.2004.00236.x

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“…This section builds on a more detailed textbook analysis(vom Hau 2009(vom Hau , 2015. The Online Appendix includes the complete list of texts specifically used for the content analysis presented in this article.18 The term liberal nationalism has a specific meaning in the Latin American context and is widely used in the relevant historiography on the late nineteenth century(Eastwood 2004).…”

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Textbooks, Postcards, and the Public Consolidation of Nationalism in Latin America

Kyriazi

Hau

2020

Qual Sociol

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The existing macro-historical scholarship tends to assert rather than demonstrate the wider impact of nationalism. Yet, state-sponsored national ideologies permeate the broader reaches of society to varying degrees. To investigate variations in the consolidation of official nationalism, this paper combines the content analysis of school textbooks as state-regulated and picture postcards as primarily market-driven sources. Building on this novel methodological approach, we find that textbooks published in mid-twentieth-century Argentina, Mexico, and Peru promoted a similar popular nationalism that portrayed the lower classes as “true” national subjects. However, picture postcards from the same period demonstrate that the consolidation of this official national ideology varied. In Mexico and Peru, the new state-sponsored conceptions of nationhood gained presence in public life, but they did not to take hold in Argentina. We conclude that studying the top-down nationalist messages promoted by states should not be equated with studying their ideological impact in public life.

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