Table of Contents:
  • The long and the short of it : a pragmatic perspective on political cultures, especially for the modern history of the Andes / Nils Jacobsen and Cristóbal Aljovín de Losada
  • Is political culture good to think? / Alan Knight
  • How interests and values seldom come alone, or : The utility of a pragmatic perspective on political culture / Nils Jacobsen and Cristóbal Aljovín de Losada
  • Civilize or control? : the lingering impact of the Bourbon urban reforms / Charles F. Walker
  • A break with the past? : Santa Cruz and the constitution / Cristóbal Aljovín de Losada
  • The tax man cometh : local authorities and the battle over taxes in Peru, 1885-1906 / Carlos Contreras
  • "Under the dominion of the Indian" : rural mobilization, the law, and revolutionary nationalism in Bolivia in the 1940s / Laura Gotkowitz
  • "Free men of all colors" in New Granada : identity and obedience before independence / Margarita Garrido
  • Silencing African descent : Caribbean Columbia and early nation building, 1810-1828 / Aline Helg
  • The making of Ecuador's pueblo católico, 1861-1875 / Derek Williams
  • Redeemed Indians, barbarized cholos : crafting neocolonial modernity in liberal Bolivia, 1900-1910 / Brooke Larson
  • Andean political imagination in the late eighteenth century / Sergio Serulnikov
  • Public opinions and public spheres in late-nineteenth-century Peru : a multicolored web in a tattered cloth / Nils Jacobsen
  • The local limitations to a national political movement : Gaitán and Gaitanismo in Antioquia / Mary Roldán
  • Concluding remarks : Andean inflections of Lantin American political cultures / Nils Jacobsen and Cristóbal Aljovín de Losada.