Reforming Chile - 9780807849194
Un libro in lingua di Barr Patrick Melej edito da Univ of North Carolina Pr, 2001
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Highlighting the crucial yet largely overlooked role played by society's middle layers in the historical development of Latin America, Patrick Barr-Melej provides the first comprehensive analysis of the rise of Chile's middle-class reform movement and its profound impact on that country's cultural and political landscapes. He shows how a diverse collection of middle-class intellectuals, writers, politicians, educators, and bureaucrats forged a "progressive" nationalism and advanced an ambitious cultural-political project between the 1890s and 1940s. Together, reformers challenged the power of elite groups and sought to quell working-class revolutionary activism as they endeavored to democratize culture and fortify liberal democracy.
Using sources that range from archival documents and newspapers to short stories, novels, and school textbooks, Barr-Melej examines the reform movement's cultural ideas and their political applications, especially as they were articulated in the areas of literature and public education. In the process, he provides a new framework for understanding Chile's cultural and political evolution, as well as the complicated place of the middle class in a society experiencing the swift changes inherent in capitalist modernization.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Reforming Chile
- Sottotitolo: Cultural Politics, Nationalism, and the Rise of the Middle Class
- Lingua: English
- Autori : Barr Patrick Melej
- Editore: Univ of North Carolina Pr
- Collana: Univ of North Carolina Pr (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 01 Maggio '01
- Genere: HISTORY
- Argomenti : Middle class Chile History 20th century Education Chile History 20th century
- Pagine: 288
- Dimensioni mm: 241 x 158 x 19
- ISBN-10: 0807849197
- EAN-13: 9780807849194