- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846312380
- eISBN:
- 9781846317149
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/UPO9781846317149.006
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
This chapter traces the development of Argentine nationalism and the politics of history after the coup of 1976 and up to the beginning of the presidency of Carlos Menem in 1989, ending with some ...
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This chapter traces the development of Argentine nationalism and the politics of history after the coup of 1976 and up to the beginning of the presidency of Carlos Menem in 1989, ending with some final observations about the 2000s. It argues that the history of nationalism does not fit neatly into a dichotomous opposition between, on the one hand, dictatorship and authoritarianism and, on the other, democracy and liberalism. Between 1976 and the 1990s, the history of Argentine nationalism was one of shifts and readjustments, the cumulative effect of which was that politics were increasingly fissured along lines which cross-cut the axiomatic dichotomy between ‘liberalism’ and ‘nationalism’. The erosion of this discursive opposition ultimately precipitated the decline of revisionist nationalism, although its continuing relevance has become evident in recent years.Less
This chapter traces the development of Argentine nationalism and the politics of history after the coup of 1976 and up to the beginning of the presidency of Carlos Menem in 1989, ending with some final observations about the 2000s. It argues that the history of nationalism does not fit neatly into a dichotomous opposition between, on the one hand, dictatorship and authoritarianism and, on the other, democracy and liberalism. Between 1976 and the 1990s, the history of Argentine nationalism was one of shifts and readjustments, the cumulative effect of which was that politics were increasingly fissured along lines which cross-cut the axiomatic dichotomy between ‘liberalism’ and ‘nationalism’. The erosion of this discursive opposition ultimately precipitated the decline of revisionist nationalism, although its continuing relevance has become evident in recent years.
Jorge Myers
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780197264317
- eISBN:
- 9780191734472
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197264317.003.0017
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This chapter examines the reception of the political and social thought of Giuseppe Mazzini in the River Plate (Buenos Aires and Montevideo) and Chile, and its contribution to the development of ...
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This chapter examines the reception of the political and social thought of Giuseppe Mazzini in the River Plate (Buenos Aires and Montevideo) and Chile, and its contribution to the development of native currents of liberal and democratic nationalism there. Focusing on the writings of the leaders of the Association of the Young Argentinian Generation – Juan Bautista Alberdi, Esteban Echeverría, Bartolomé Mitre, and Vicente Fidel López – it analyses the forms in which certain key concepts drawn from Mazzini's political vocabulary played a crucial role in the early elaboration of an Argentinian liberal nationalism. The chapter also stresses the importance of cultural intermediaries such as Giovanbattista Cuneo and Giuseppe Garibaldi, whose presence in the River Plate during the 1830s and 1840s was of decisive importance in the transmission of the programme formulated by Mazzini for his Giovine Italia movement. The chapter also explores the possible presence of Mazzinian themes and rhetorical patterns in the writings of the Chilean radical republican Francisco Bilbao, whose career as a publicist took place in three Latin American countries: Chile, Peru, and Argentina.Less
This chapter examines the reception of the political and social thought of Giuseppe Mazzini in the River Plate (Buenos Aires and Montevideo) and Chile, and its contribution to the development of native currents of liberal and democratic nationalism there. Focusing on the writings of the leaders of the Association of the Young Argentinian Generation – Juan Bautista Alberdi, Esteban Echeverría, Bartolomé Mitre, and Vicente Fidel López – it analyses the forms in which certain key concepts drawn from Mazzini's political vocabulary played a crucial role in the early elaboration of an Argentinian liberal nationalism. The chapter also stresses the importance of cultural intermediaries such as Giovanbattista Cuneo and Giuseppe Garibaldi, whose presence in the River Plate during the 1830s and 1840s was of decisive importance in the transmission of the programme formulated by Mazzini for his Giovine Italia movement. The chapter also explores the possible presence of Mazzinian themes and rhetorical patterns in the writings of the Chilean radical republican Francisco Bilbao, whose career as a publicist took place in three Latin American countries: Chile, Peru, and Argentina.
