{"product_id":"crafting-a-republic-for-the-world-9780803290747","title":"Crafting a Republic for the World","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the wake of independence, Spanish American leaders perceived the colonial past as looming over their present. \u003cem\u003eCrafting a Republic for the World\u003c\/em\u003e examines how the vibrant post-colonial public sphere in Colombia invented narratives of the Spanish \"\"colonial legacy\"\".\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eCrafting a Republic for the World: Scientific, Geographic, and Historiographic Inventions of Colombia\u003c\/i\u003e, Lina del Castillo offers a glimpse into the process of transforming Colombia into an Andean-Atlantic nation.\"—Sharika D. Crawford, \u003ci\u003eLatin American Research Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This ambitious and invigorating book will incite discussion for years to come. It sets an important precedent for describing nineteenth-century Latin America as a period of immense political, economic, scientific, and even cultural creativity rather than as a period consumed by caudillismo, corruption, and political fragmentation. . . . The book is tremendously successful.\"—Fidel J. Tavárez, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Interdisciplinary History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is the rare scholarly work that will make valuable contributions to not just one but three historical fields: the political history of republicanism, the cultural history of nineteenth-century mentalités, and the global history of science.”—James E. Sanders, professor of history at Utah State University\u003cbr\u003e“Lina del Castillo’s work deepens our understanding of nineteenth-century Latin America as part of the vanguard of democracy.”—Rebecca Earle, professor of history at the University of Warwick\u003cbr\u003e“Deeply researched and innovative, \u003ci\u003eCrafting a Republic for the World\u003c\/i\u003e shows how nineteenth-century Colombians invented the notion of colonial legacies and how this notion was essential to the creation of a new science of republicanism. An inspiring account of how ideas about the past shape politics and policy!”—Marixa Lasso, associate professor of history at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia\u003cbr\u003e“According to Del Castillo’s sharp and provocative analysis, Colombia’s oft-cited ‘colonial legacy’ was actually a nineteenth-century construct, one that has far outlived its early republican creators as an explanatory framework for all that is wrong with modern Latin America. \u003ci\u003eCrafting a Republic for the World\u003c\/i\u003e will spark scholarly debate by forcing us to rethink this legacy\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e”—Nancy Appelbaum, professor of history at Binghamton University, SUNY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations    \u003cbr\u003e List of Tables    \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments    \u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Postcolonial Inventions of Spanish American Colonial Legacies    \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Gran Colombian Print Culture and the Erasure of the Spanish Enlightenment    \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. A Political Economy of Circulation    \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Calculating Equality and the Postcolonial Reproduction of the Colonial State     \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Political Ethnography and the Colonial in the Postcolonial Mind    \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Constitutions and Political Geographies Harness Universal Manhood Suffrage    \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Civic Religion vs. the Catholic Church and the Ending of a Republican Project    \u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: A Continental Postcolonial Colombia Challenges the Latin Race Idea    \u003cbr\u003e Notes    \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography    \u003cbr\u003e Index    \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405294805335,"sku":"9780803290747","price":35.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780803290747.jpg?v=1730489503","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/crafting-a-republic-for-the-world-9780803290747","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}