Hemispheric Models of Material Progress in New Granada and Colombia (1810-1930)
Por:
Campuzano-Hoyos, Jairo
Publicada:
1 jul 2016
Resumen:
This article argues that New Granadian and Colombian leaders examined
models of material and intellectual progress in the United States and in
their neighboring countries within the hemisphere. For many
Spanish-Americans, the material progress already achieved by the United
States and the North Atlantic overall was an idealized end, and they
looked at some U.S. institutions as potential templates. As for the
means to meet such an idealized end, influential people in New Granada
and Colombia found among their neighboring countries a more pragmatic
set of experiences that would help them foster progress in their own
right. Over the second half of the nineteenth century, and more actively
when turning into the twentieth, some Colombian leaders sought to follow
the example of countries such as Argentina, one of the frontrunners of
Latin American contemporary progress.
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