[eBook] [PDF] For Re-Imagining Democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1780-1870 1st Edition By Eduardo Posada-Carbó, Joanna Innes, Mark Philp

[eBook] [PDF] For Re-Imagining Democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1780-1870 1st Edition By Eduardo Posada-Carbó, Joanna Innes, Mark Philp

Re-imagining Democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1780-1870 examines the ways in which the ancient concept of “democracy” was re-imagined as relevant to the modern world in Latin America and the Caribbean between the later eighteenth and later nineteenth centuries. In most regions this process largely followed the French Revolution, while in Latin America it more closely followed independence movements of the 1810s and 20s.

A sequel to two previous volumes edited by Joanna Innes and Mark Philp, Re-imagining Democracy in the Age of Revolutions: America, France, Britain, Ireland 1750-1850 and Re-imagining Democracy in the Mediterranean 1770-1860, this volume studies how a variety of political actors and commentators used “democracy” to characterize or debate modern conditions through the ensuing half-century. By 1870, it was firmly established in mainstream political lexicons throughout the region.