1st Edition

Nation and State in Latin America Political Language During Independence

By Jose Carlos Chiaramonte Copyright 2010
263 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

263 Pages
by Routledge

No one in Latin American historiography has paid more attention to questions related to the emergence of nations than Jose Carlos Chiaramonte. Reflecting on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century uses of the concept of nation in Europe and the Americas, Chiaramonte argues that historical questions related to the term "nation" derive from its changing meaning in different contexts. The historian would... Read more
1: Introduction; 2: Shifts in the Concept of Nation, 1700-1850; 3: The Formation of National States In Latin America*; 4: The Natural Law Foundations of The Independence Movements; 5: Major Features And Trends in Natural Law; 6: Notes on Federalism &The Formation of National States

Biography

Jose Carlos Chiaramonte