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Democracy in Latin America, 1760-1900 (Hardcover, New)
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Democracy in Latin America, 1760-1900 (Hardcover, New)
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Carlos Forment's aim in this highly ambitious work is to write the
book that Tocqueville would have written had he traveled to Latin
America instead of the United States. Drawing on an astonishing
level of research, Forment pored over countless newspapers,
partisan pamphlets, tabloids, journals, private letters, and
travelogues to show in this study how citizens of Latin America
established strong democratic traditions in their countries through
the practice of democracy in their everyday lives.
This first volume of "Democracy in Latin America" considers the
development of democratic life in Mexico and Peru from independence
to the late 1890s. Forment traces the emergence of hundreds of
political, economic, and civic associations run by citizens in both
nations and shows how these organizations became models of and for
democracy in the face of dictatorship and immense economic
hardship. His is the first book to show the presence in Latin
America of civic democracy, something that gave men and women in
that region an alternative to market- and state-centered forms of
life.
In looking beneath institutions of government to uncover local and
civil organizations in public life, Forment ultimately uncovers a
tradition of edification and inculcation that shaped democratic
practices in Latin America profoundly. This tradition, he reveals,
was stronger in Mexico than in Peru, but its basic outlines were
similar in both nations and included a unique form of what Forment
calls Civic Catholicism in order to distinguish itself from civic
republicanism, the dominant political model throughout the rest of
the Western world.
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