Chile: The Making of a Republic, 1830-1865: Politics and Ideas

by Simon Collier

Book Overview

Chile enjoyed unique prestige among the Spanish American republics of the nineteenth century for its stable and increasingly liberal political tradition. How did this unusual story unfold? The tradition was forged in serious and occasionally violent conflicts between the dominant Conservative Party, which governed in an often authoritarian manner from 1830 to 1858, and the growing forces of political Liberalism. A major political realignment in 1857-8...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521033128
• ISBN13: 9780521033121
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"