| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 288 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-279) and index. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Contents |
""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"" |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Middle class -- Chile -- History -- 20th century.
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Middle class. |
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Chile. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Chile -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
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Politics and government. |
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Education -- Chile -- History -- 20th century.
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Education. |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
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Geschichte 1890-1941 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Barr-Melej, Patrick. Reforming Chile. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2001 0807826049 (DLC) 00051218 (OCoLC)45243241 |
| ISBN |
0807875619 (electronic book) |
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9780807875612 (electronic book) |
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9780807826041 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0807826049 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780807849194 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0807849197 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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