Political Legitimacy and Governance: Liberalism

How was political legitimacy constructed? How did notions of good government change over time? How did understandings of rights change with changing political system change over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth century? How do ideas of state sovereignty relate to Human Rights?

 Primary Sources:

Speeches of Eva Peron (Argentina 1951), Eva Peron on Women's Suffrage (Argentina 1947).

Zapatista Revolutionary Women's Law and the San Andrés Accords (Mexico 1996).

Core Reading:

Sikkink, Kathryn. 'Human Rights, Principled Issue-Networks, and Sovereignty in Latin America.' International Organization, vol. 47, no. 3, 1993, pp. 411–441.

Tristan Platt. "Liberalism and ethnocide in the southern Andes", History Workshop Journal No. 17, (Spring 1984), 3-18.

Rodolfo Stavenhagen, “Indigenous Peoples and the State in Latin America: An Ongoing Debate” in Rachel Sieder (ed). Multiculturalism in Latin America: Indigenous Rights, Diversity and Democracy, Palgrave Press, 2002.

Further Reading:

Michael L. Conniff. Populism in Latin America. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press: 2012.

Todd A. Diacon. Stringing together a nation: Cândido Mariano Da Silva Rondon and the construction of a modern Brazil, 1906-1930. Durham/ London: Duke University Press: 2004.

Marshall Eakin, Becoming Brazilians: Race and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Brazil. Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Nils Jacobsen and Cristóbal Aljovín de Losada (eds.) Political cultures in the Andes, 1750-1950. Duke University Press | 2005.

Brooke Larson. Trials of Nation Making : Liberalism, Race, and Ethnicity in the Andes, 1810-1910, Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Bonnie A. Lucero. A Cuban City, Segregated : Race and Urbanization in the Nineteenth Century. University Alabama Press, 2019.

Florencia E. Mallon. Courage Tastes of Blood: the Mapuche community of Nicolás Ailío and the Chilean state, 1906-2001. Durham London: Duke, 2005

Florencia E. Mallon. The Defense of Community in Peru's Central Highlands : Peasant Struggle and Capitalist Transition, 1860-1940. Princeton, 2014.

Hilda Sábato. ‘On Political Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century Latin America’ The American Historical Review. 106:4 (2001), 1290–1315.

Sabato, Hilda. 2018. Republics of the New World: The Revolutionary Political Experiment in Nineteenth-Century Latin America. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Sikkink, Kathryn. “Human Rights, Principled Issue-Networks, and Sovereignty in Latin America.” International Organization, vol. 47, no. 3, 1993, pp. 411–441.,

Rodolfo Stavenhagen, “Indigenous Peoples and the State in Latin America: An Ongoing Debate” in Rachel Sieder (ed). Multiculturalism in Latin America: Indigenous Rights, Diversity and Democracy, Palgrave Press, 2002.

Philip Oxhorn. “The Social Foundations of Latin America’s Recurrent Populism: Problems of Class Formation and Collective Action.” Journal of Historical Sociology. 1998.