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Police Writing and Radical Modernisation in the Porfiriato and the Conservative Republic (1870s-1910s) book cover

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Police Writing and Radical Modernisation in the Porfiriato and the Conservative Republic (1870s-1910s)

By Agustina Carrizo de Reimann Copyright 2025
234 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

234 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

234 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book explores the process of modernisation during the Porfiriato and the Conservative republic from the perspective of one of its most erratic agents: the urban police. Taking a pragmalinguistic approach, this book examines police bureaucratic, journalistic, and literary writing practices that flourished in the wake of police professionalisation and in response to the demands of state... Read more

1. Dis/Orders of Modernisation in the Porfiriato and the Conservative Republic  2. Escritura Mecánica. Police Bureaucratic Writing and the Reading State  3. Revistas de Policía. Police Journalistic Writing in the Modernised City  4. Escritura Policial de Afición. Police Literary Writing and the Fictions of Progress 5. Conclusion. Police Polygraphy and Radical Modernisation

Biography

Agustina Carrizo de Reimann is an independent researcher and lecturer at the Global and European Studies Institute at the Leipzig University. Her research focuses on questions of cultural and political formation in modern Latin America from an actor-centred and decolonial perspective. Publications include Una Historia Densa De La Anarquía Posindependiente: La Violencia Política Desde La Perspectiva Del Pueblo En Armas (Buenos Aires-México, 1820), 2019 and Making Modern Police in Latin America: Beiträge Zur Geschichte Der Polizeien Im 19. Und 20. Jahrhundert, 2020.

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