Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. About the series ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. The Long and the Short of It: A Pragmatic Perspective on Political Cultures, Especially for the Modern History of the Andes 1
6. Is Political Culture Good to Think? 25
7. How Interests and Values Seldom Come Alone, or: The Utility of a Pragmatic Perspective on Political Culture 58
8. Part One. State- and Nation-Building Projects and Their Limitations
9. Civilize or Control? The Lingering Impact of the Bourbon Urban Reforms 69
10. A Break with the Past? Santa Cruz and the Constitution 96
11. The Tax Man Cometh: Local Authorities and the Battle Over Taxes in Peru, 1885-1906 116
12. ‘‘Under the dominion of the indian’’: Rural Mobilization, the Law, and Revolutionary Nationalism in Bolivia in the 1940s 137
13. Part Two. Ethnicity, Gender, and the Construction of Power: Exclusionary Strategies and the Struggle for Citizenship
14. ‘‘Free Men of All Colors’’ in New Granada: Identity and Obedience before Independence 159
15. Silencing African Descent: Caribbean Colombia and Early Nation Building, 1810-1828 184
16. The Making of Ecuador’s Pueblo Católico, 1861-1875 207
17. Redeemed Indians, Barbarized Cholos: Crafting Neocolonial Modernity in Liberal Bolivia, 1900-1910 230
18. Part Three. The Local, the Peripheral, and the Network: Redefining the Boundaries of Popular Representation in the Public Arena
19. Andean Political Imagination in the Late Eighteenth Century 253
20. Public Opinions and Public Spheres in Late-Nineteenth-Century Peru: A Multicolored Web in a Tattered Cloth 278
21. The Local Limitations to a National Political Movement: Gaitán and Gaitanismo in Antioquia 301
22. Concluding Remarks: Andean Inflections of Latin American Political Cultures 324
23. Bibliography 337
24. Contributors 373
25. Index 377