Looking at the Latin American liberal project during the century of
postindependence, this collection of original essays draws
attention to an underappreciated dilemma confronting liberals:
idealistic visions and fiscal restraints. Liberals, Politics, and
Power focuses on the inventiveness of nineteenth-century Latin
Americans who applied liberal ideology to the founding and
maintenance of new states. The impact of liberalism in Latin
America, the contributors show, is best understood against the
larger backdrop of struggles that pitted regional demands against
the pressures of foreign finance, a powerful church against a
decentralized state, and aristocratic desire to retain privilege
against rising demands for social mobility. Moving beyond the
traditional historiographical division between Eurocentric and
dependency theories, the essays attempt to account for a uniquely
Latin American liberal ideology and politics by exploring the
political dynamics of such countries as Mexico, Colombia,
Argentina, and Peru. Contributors discuss liberal efforts to build
a viable legal order through elections and to implement a means of
public finance that could fund the states' operations. Essays that
span the entire century address issues such as the emergence of
caudillos, the role of artisans, and popular participation in
elections in light of fiscal, and other, impediments to progress.
In their introduction, Vincent C. Peloso and Barbara A. Tenenbaum
provide a hemispheric overview of liberalism that illustrates its
similarities across Latin America. By exploring the liberal
constitutional and economic order lying beneath apparently
dictatorial states, this pathbreaking volume underlines the
importance of fiscal policy in the fashioning of state power.
Liberals, Politics, and Power serves not only as a guide to the
liberal principles and practices that governed state formation in
nineteenth-century Latin America but also as a means to evaluate
the complex relationship between ideas and practical politics.
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