Contours of Republicanism: Visions of Regional Politics in Nineteenth-Century Latin America

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

Throughout the nineteenth century, Latin American republics faced challenges concerning state formation and international recognition. Recent scholarship has analyzed the complexities of political experimentation across Latin America, and stressed the importance of the Latin American experience in overcoming diffusionist accounts of republicanism. Particular attention is being paid to the ways in which nineteenth-century Latin American countries developed democratic notions, economic structures, and institutional apparatuses with genuine national reach. This panel intends to make a contribution to this growing literature by inquiring the ways in which Latin American policy-makers tackled these challenges in the context of regional and global developments. The papers presented here will address these questions with reference to key elements in the construction of national states: the press in the independence period; mid-century Chilean scientific expeditions; republican thought between Brazil and the River Plate; the diplomatic world of the South American Pacific in the 1860s; and the politics of international finance in Brazil and Argentina in the late nineteenth century.

Sub Track

• History and Historiography

Session Organizers

• Juan I Neves Sarriegui, University of Oxford

• Carlos Cifuentes, Universidad de Los Andes/ Colombia

Chair

• Andre Jockyman Roithmann, University of Oxford

Individual Presentations

• Monteagudo and the Press in the Independence of Spanish America - Juan I Neves Sarriegui, University of Oxford

• Drawing the Contours of the Nation - The First Chilean Hydrographic Expeditions (1830-1840s) - Natalia L Gandara

• ‘Scrupulous neutrality’: Political Thought and State-Building between Brazil and the River Plate, 1835-1845 - Andre Jockyman Roithmann, University of Oxford

• The Napoleonic Invasion of Mexico - Views from the South American Pacific - Carlos Cifuentes, Universidad de Los Andes/ Colombia

• Sovereign Risk, Informal Empire, and State Formation in Brazil and Argentina in the late Nineteenth Century - Paula Vedoveli, Fundação Getulio Vargas