Exile and Nation-State Formation in Argentina and Chile, 1810-1862

• Main Author: Blumenthal, Edward (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series
• Subjects: Latin America-History.; World history.; Social history.; World politics.; Latin American History.; World History, Global and Transnational History.; Social History.; Political History.

This book traces the impact of exile in the formation of independent republics in Chile and the Río de la Plata in the decades after independence. Exile was central to state and nation formation, playing a role in the emergence of territorial borders and Romantic notions of national difference, whi...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: The Floating Province of Exile
• 2. Political Displacement and Independence: Commerce, Indigenous Peoples and Exile (1810-1839)
• 3. Epistolary Exchange and the Exile Experience: Transnational Networks before the Nation
• 4. Political Exile, Labor Markets and Institution Building
• 5. The Practice and Politics of Exile: Nation-State Formation from Abroad
• 6. Exile Representations of Chilean Exceptionalism
• 7. Narratives of Exile, Narratives of Nationhood
• 8. Floating Provinces: Exile and the Formation of Independent Republics.