State and nation making in Latin America and Spain : republics of the possible

State and nation making in Latin America and Spain : republics of the possible /

"The growth of institutional capacity in the developing world has become a central theme in twenty-first-century social science. Many studies have shown that public institutions are an important (some would argue the most important) determinant of long-run rates of economic growth. This book ar...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Centeno, Miguel Angel, 1957- (Editor), Ferraro, Agustín (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013
Subjects:
Nation-building > Latin America.
Nation-building > Spain.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Republics of the possible: state building in Latin America and Spain / by Miguel Centeno and Agustin E. Ferraro
  • 2. The construction of national states in Latin America, 1820-1890 / by Frank Safford
  • 3. State building in Western Europe and the Americas before and in the long nineteenth century: some preliminary considerations / by Wolfgang Knoebl
  • 4. The state and development under the Brazilian monarchy: 1822-1889 / by Jeffrey Needell
  • 5. The Brazilian federal state in the old republic (1889-1930): did regime change make a difference? / by Joseph L. Love
  • 6. The Mexican state, Porfirian and revolutionary, 1876-1930 / by Alan Knight
  • 7. Nicaragua: the difficult creation of a sovereign state / by Salvador Marti
  • 8. Friends' tax. patronage, fiscality, and state building in Argentina and Spain / by Claudia E. Herrera and Agustin E. Ferraro
  • 9. Ideological pragmatism and nonpartisan expertise in nineteenth-century Chile: Andrés Bello's contribution to state and nation building / by Iván Jaksić
  • 10. Militarization without bureaucratization in Central America / by James Mahoney
  • 11. Between Empleomanía and the common good: expert bureaucracies in Argentina (1870-1930) / by Ricardo D. Salvatore
  • 12. Elite preferences, administrative institutions, and educational development during Peru's Aristocratic republic (1895-1919) / by Hillel D. Soifer
  • 13. Liberalism in the Spanish American world 1808-1825 / by Roberto Breña
  • 14. Visions of the national: natural endowments, futures, and the evils of men / by Fernando López-Alves
  • 15. Spanish national identity in the age of nationalisms / by José Álvarez Junco
  • 16. Census taking and nation making in nineteenth-century Latin America / by Mara Loveman
  • 17. Citizens before the law: the role of courts in post-independence state building in Spanish America / by Sara C. Chambers
  • 18. Envisioning the nation: the mid-nineteenth-century Colombian Chorographic Commission / by Nancy P. Applebaum
  • 19. Paper leviathans. historical legacies and state strength in contemporary Latin America and Spain / by Miguel A. Centeno and Agustin E. Ferraro.

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