Democracy in Latin America, 1760-1900

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments

PART ONE
INTRODUCTION
1. Common Sense and Democracy in Latin America Today
2. Social Equality and Political Liberty as Forms of Life

PART TWO
THE PUBLIC LANDSCAPE OF LATE COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA
3. Alone in Public: Institutional Practices and Colonial Life
4. Becoming a Rational Person: Anticolonial Movements and the Emergence of a Public

PART THREE
THE EMERGENCE OF CIVIC DEMOCRACY: BREAKING OLD HABITS
5. Crafting Citizens: Mexican Civil and Economic Society
6. Republic without Citizens: Peruvian Civil and Economic Society
7. Losing and Reclaiming Liberty: Mexican Political Society
8. Militarizing Sovereignty of the People: Peruvian Political Society
9. Learning a Language: The Mexican Public Sphere
10. Speaking in Tongues: The Peruvian Public Sphere

PART FOUR
THE DEVELOPMENT OF CIVIC DEMOCRACY: CREATING NEW FORMS OF LIFE
11. Living Democracy: Mexican Civil and Economic Society
12. Andeanizing Democracy: Peruvian Civil and Economic Society
13. Democratizing Antipolitics: Mexican Political Society
14. Fragile Democracy and Tattered Nationhood: Peruvian Political Society
15. Critical Deliberation: The Mexican Public Sphere
16. Opinion-Making: The Peruvian Public Sphere

CONCLUDING REMARKS
Rethinking Tocqueville: A Latin American Perspective

Index