Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-372) and index.
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