Book ID: CBB032113174

Crafting a Republic for the World: Scientific, Geographic, and Historiographic Inventions of Colombia (2018)

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Del Castillo, Lina Maria (Author)


University of Nebraska Press


Publication Date: 2018
Physical Details: 402
Language: English

In the wake of independence, Spanish American leaders perceived the colonial past as looming over their present. Crafting a Republic for the World examines how the vibrant postcolonial public sphere in Colombia invented narratives of the Spanish “colonial legacy.” Those supposed legacies included a lack of effective geographic knowledge, blockages to a circulatory political economy, existing patterns of land tenure, entrenched inequalities, and ignorance among popular sectors. At times collaboratively, and at times combatively, Colombian leaders tackled these “colonial” legacies to forge a republic in a hostile world of monarchies and empires. The highly partisan, yet uniformly republican public sphere crafted a vision of a virtuous nation that, unlike the United States, had already abolished slavery and included Indians as citizens. By the mid-nineteenth century, as suffrage expanded to all males over twenty-one, Colombian elites nevertheless tinkered with territorial divisions and devised new constitutions to manage the alleged “colonial legacy” affecting the minds of popular voters. The book explores how the struggle to be at the vanguard of radical republican equality fomented innovative contributions to social sciences, including geography, cartography, political ethnography, constitutional science, history, and the calculation of equity through land reform. Paradoxically, these efforts created a kind of legal pluralism reminiscent of the Spanish monarchy during the “colonial” period.

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Review Fidel J. Tavárez (2019) Review of "Crafting a Republic for the World: Scientific, Geographic, and Historiographic Inventions of Colombia". Journal of Interdisciplinary History (pp. 147-148). unapi

Review Anthony Páez Mullan (2019) Review of "Crafting a Republic for the World: Scientific, Geographic, and Historiographic Inventions of Colombia". Imago Mundi: A Review of Early Cartography (pp. 223-224). unapi

Review Joshua Rosenthal (2019) Review of "Crafting a Republic for the World: Scientific, Geographic, and Historiographic Inventions of Colombia". Agricultural History (pp. 359-361). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Appelbaum, Nancy P.
Leal, Claudia
Lina Rocío Medina Muñoz
Varón-Carvajal, Lisette
Barragan, Carlos Andres
Longbridge, Bob
Concepts
Geography
Travel; exploration
Science and culture
Science and society
Scientific expeditions
Historiography
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
20th century, late
20th century
17th century
Places
Colombia
South America
Spain
England
Peru
Puerto Rico
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