Pillars of the Republics: Early Monuments and the Politics of Memory in the Post-Colonial Americas

Rinke, Stefan

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dc.creator	Rinke, Stefan
dc.date	2014-06-10
dc.date.accessioned	2022-03-29T18:01:42Z
dc.date.available	2022-03-29T18:01:42Z
dc.identifier	http://journals.iai.spk-berlin.de/index.php/iberoamericana/article/view/439
dc.identifier	10.18441/ibam.1.2001.4.91-111
dc.identifier.uri	http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/149416
dc.description	When trying to explain the success of democracy in the United States in 1831 Tocqueville used the comparative method in singling out the most important explanatory factors. He concluded that it were not the natural circumstances like absence of envious neighbors or the availability of natural resources which decided about success or failure of democratic institutions. According to Tocqueville, Latin America boasted the same favorable preconditions and yet he noted: “There are no nations upon the face of the earth ... more miserable than those of South America”. If we translate “customs” into the modern term of political culture we can see that Tocqueville’s explanation is still very much in currency in the social sciences. Indeed, historians of Latin America have frequently argued that the problem of the comparative underdevelopment of the region in part has to be explained by the resistance of traditional socio-cultural structures to modernization. According to this point of view, traditional attitudes and mentalities helped to perpetuate a political culture that proved an obstacle to democracy from the very start.	es-ES
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dc.language	eng
dc.publisher	Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Berlin)	es-ES
dc.relation	http://journals.iai.spk-berlin.de/index.php/iberoamericana/article/view/439/124
dc.source	IBEROAMERICANA. América Latina - España - Portugal; Vol. 1 No. 4 (2001); 91-111	en-US
dc.source	IBEROAMERICANA. América Latina - España - Portugal; Vol. 1 Núm. 4 (2001); 91-111	es-ES
dc.source	2255-520X
dc.source	1577-3388
dc.source	10.18441/ibam.1.2001.4
dc.subject	Post-Colonialism	es-ES
dc.subject	Politics of Memory	es-ES
dc.subject	Latin America	es-ES
dc.subject	19th Century	es-ES
dc.title	Pillars of the Republics: Early Monuments and the Politics of Memory in the Post-Colonial Americas	es-ES
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dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion