Imported modernity in post-colonial state formation : the appropriation of political, educational, and cultural models in nineteenth-century Latin America / edited by Eugenia Roldán Vera & Marcelo Caruso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : avoiding the national, assessing the modern / Eugenia Roldán Vera and Marcelo Caruso -- Between the old and the new regime : the triumph of the intermediate bodies in the Quito Audience, 1765-1830 / Federica Morelli -- Iusnaturalist tradition and utilitarianism imported : the intellectual and political trajectories of the elites in the Rio de la Plata, 1810-1825 / Beatriz Dávilo -- Old regional antagonisms and imported political models : the liberal invention of a Salvadoran state identity, 1821-1829 / Sajid Alfredo Herrera -- Mid nineteenth-century ideological radicalization in Peru : the French post-revolutionary influence / Natalia Sobrevilla Perea -- "Democracy in South America" : the "new generation" and the reception of Tocqueville's De la démocratie en Amérique : the path of River Plate liberalism, 1840-1852 / Jorge Myers -- Imported Englishness : Henry Christophe's educational programme in Haiti, 1806-1820 / Karen Racine -- Export as import : James Thomson's civilising mission in South America, 1818-1825 / Eugenia Roldán Vera -- New schooling and the invention of a political culture : community, rituals and meritocracy in Colombian monitorial schools, 1821-1842 / Marcelo Caruso -- In the name of civilization : compulsory education and cultural politics in Brazil in the 19th century / Luciano Mendes de Faria Filho and José G. Gondra -- Consumption and excess in colonial and early-independent Spanish America / Rebecca Earle -- Ranke in Mexico : the process of professionalization of history, a century later? / Guillermo Zermeño.