Order[s] and Progress in Developmental Discourse: A Case of Nineteenth Century Peru

Abstract

Abstract Postcolonial Latin America is generally read as incapable of spawning genuine developmental or national projects ‐ in part, owing to controlling élites’ obsessions with social order. By way of contrast, in discussing Peru's mid‐19th century age of guano this article reveals a genealogy of mounting élite concerns with diversifying, inclusive development. It was shifting social and national anxieties of liberal thinkers that produced this paradoxical imagined development in Peru.

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