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Este volumen contiene trabajos que buscan superar incongruencias de la historia iberoamericana interpretando de nueva forma la vida intelectual y politica en tiempos de las independencias. Con tal proposito apunta a dos objetivos, los que definen las dos partes del libro. El primero, exponer como la vida intelectual y politica estaba entonces fundada principalmente en el derecho natural, el que transmitido a traves de su ensenanza y de la del derecho canonico condicionaba tambien la conducta social. El otro de esos objetivos, al que esta dedicada la segunda parte, es el de explicar como la...

No one in Latin American historiography has paid more attention to questions related to the emergence of nations than Jose Carlos Chiaramonte. Reflecting on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century uses of the concept of nation in Europe and the Americas, Chiaramonte argues that historical questions related to the term "nation" derive from its changing meaning in different contexts. The historian would be better advised to focus on the development of forms of state organization, and the emergence of national states, rather than the "nation" as a cultural community prior to independence. Nation and...

Major campaigns to raise levels of literacy have taken place for centuries and share many common elements. But despite literary campaigns spanning over five decades, 860 million adults still lack minimal ability to read, write, and calculate. Why is literacy of such great importance and why have so many years of campaigning for it not been successful in fully overcoming this obstacle? National Literacy Campaigns and Movements explores these questions by examining campaigns in vastly different societies from a historical and comparative perspective.The volume focuses on literacy movements from...