Hemispheric Models of Material Progress in New Granada and Colombia (1810-1930)
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2016-12-13
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Este artículo plantea que los líderes de la Nueva Granada y de Colombia examinaron modelos de progreso material e intelectual tanto en los Estados Unidos como en los países vecinos dentro del hemisferio. Para muchos hispanoamericanos, el progreso material ya alcanzado por los Estados Unidos y el Atlántico Norte en general era un fin ideal, y consideraron como modelos potenciales algunas de las instituciones estadounidenses. En cuanto a los medios para alcanzar ese fin ideal, personas influyentes de la Nueva Granada y de Colombia encontraron en países vecinos un conjunto más pragmático de experiencias que les ayudaría a fomentar su propio progreso. A lo largo de la segunda mitad del siglo XIX, y más activamente a principios del XX, algunos líderes colombianos buscaron seguir el ejemplo de países como Argentina, uno de los precursores del progreso latinoamericano contemporáneo.
This article argues that New Granadian and Colombian leaders examined models of material and intellectual progress in the United States and in their neighboring countries within the hemisphere. For many Spanish-Americans, the material progress already achieved by the United States and the North Atlantic overall was an idealized end, and they looked at some U.S. institutions as potential templates. As for the means to meet such an idealized end, influential people in New Granada and Colombia found among their neighboring countries a more pragmatic set of experiences that would help them foster progress in their own right. Over the second half of the nineteenth century, and more actively when turning into the twentieth, some Colombian leaders sought to follow the example of countries such as Argentina, one of the front-runners of Latin American contemporary progress.
This article argues that New Granadian and Colombian leaders examined models of material and intellectual progress in the United States and in their neighboring countries within the hemisphere. For many Spanish-Americans, the material progress already achieved by the United States and the North Atlantic overall was an idealized end, and they looked at some U.S. institutions as potential templates. As for the means to meet such an idealized end, influential people in New Granada and Colombia found among their neighboring countries a more pragmatic set of experiences that would help them foster progress in their own right. Over the second half of the nineteenth century, and more actively when turning into the twentieth, some Colombian leaders sought to follow the example of countries such as Argentina, one of the front-runners of Latin American contemporary progress.