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Reforming Chile : cultural politics, nationalism, and the rise of the middle class / Patrick Barr-Melej

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, (c)2001

Online Ressource (xvi, 288 pages) : illustrations

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267]-279) and index. - Description based on print version record

Erscheint auch als: Barr-Melej, Patrick : Reforming Chile. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2001 (Druck-Ausgabe)

0-8078-7561-9 (electronic bk.); 978-0-8078-7561-2 (electronic bk.); 978-0-8078-2604-1 (cloth : alk. paper); 0-8078-2604-9 (cloth : alk. paper); 978-0-8078-4919-4 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0-8078-4919-7 (pbk. : alk. paper)

978-0-8078-2604-1 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 0-8078-2604-9 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-0-8078-4919-4 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 0-8078-4919-7 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 0-8078-2604-9 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

9780807826041

OCoLC: 51283589 (aus SWB)     

Online-Ausg.

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Aggregator-Datenbank (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

HT690.C5

305.550983 ; 305.5/5/0983     Ähnliche Literatur

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LOC-SH: Middle class -- History -- 20th century -- Chile ; Education -- History -- 20th century -- Chile ; Classes moyennes -- Histoire -- 20e siècle -- Chili ; Éducation -- Histoire -- 20e siècle -- Chili ; Chile -- Politics and government -- 20th century ; Chili -- Politique et gouvernement -- 20e siècle -- Chile -- CHILE -- POLITICA Y GOBIERNO -- SIGLO 20 -- Chile ; Education -- Chile -- History -- 20th century ; Chile -- Politics and government -- 20th century ; Middle class -- Chile -- History -- 20th century

Electronic books / History ; Chile ; CHILE ; POLITICA Y GOBIERNO ; SIGLO 20 ; Chile ; Politics and government ; Hervormingen ; Middenklassen ; Nationalisme ; Mittelstand ; Reformpolitik ; CLASE MEDIA ; CHILE ; HISTORIA ; SIGLO 20 ; EDUCACION ; CHILE ; HISTORIA ; SIGLO 20 ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Social Classes ; Education ; Middle class ; History

""Contents""; ""Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Introduction""; ""1 A Troubled Belle Epoque""; ""2 Nationalists""; ""3 Rewriting Chile""; ""4 Prose, Politics, and Patria from Alessandri to the Popular Front""; ""5 For Culture and Country""; ""6 Teaching the ""Nation""""; ""7 The Three Rs""; ""Epilogue""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""

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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