Democratic imperialism and Risorgimento colonialism: European legionnaires on the Argentine Pampa in the 1850s

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• dc.contributor.author Bonvini, Alessandro
• dc.contributor.author Jacobson, Stephen
• dc.date.accessioned 2022-05-17T08:36:10Z
• dc.date.available 2022-05-17T08:36:10Z
• dc.date.issued 2022
• dc.description.abstract In the wake of the Revolutions of 1848 in Europe, democratic nationalism promoted the liberation of oppressed peoples from the shackles of absolutist empires and prophesied the emergence of a cosmopolitan brotherhood of nation states. From a global perspective, however, this political culture could be imperial. The governors of State of Buenos Aires modelled plans for the White colonization of the pampas on French Algeria. They sent a Military-Agricultural Legion to the enclave of Bahía Blanca, near the Patagonian frontier, to participate in the war against the Indians. Launched as the successor to Garibaldi’s Italian Legion of Montevideo, its leaders promised to bring civilization to savage lands in the spirit of Columbus and in the name of the Risorgimento. This case study offers a window into the cross-pollination of ideas concerning conquest and colonization between Latin America and Europe. Expansion and secession, empire and nation, mestizaje and racial hierarchies, cosmopolitanism and adventurism, all coexisted within an entangled republican universe.
• dc.description.sponsorship Partial research funding from Spain’s Ministry of Science and Innovation (Research Project Reference: PGC2018-096722-B-100).
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• dc.identifier.citation Bonvini A, Jacobson S. Democratic imperialism and Risorgimento colonialism: European legionnaires on the Argentine Pampa in the 1850s. Journal of Global History. 2022 Mar;17(1):89-108. DOI: 10.1017/S1740022821000152
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1740022821000152
• dc.identifier.issn 1740-0228
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/53111
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Cambridge University Press
• dc.relation.ispartof Journal of Global History. 2022 Mar;17(1):89-108
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/2PE/PGC2018-096722-B-I00
• dc.rights © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original article is properly cited.
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• dc.subject.keyword Foreign legions
• dc.subject.keyword White colonization
• dc.subject.keyword Civilizing mission
• dc.subject.keyword Democratic internationalism
• dc.subject.keyword Risorgimento
• dc.title Democratic imperialism and Risorgimento colonialism: European legionnaires on the Argentine Pampa in the 1850s
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