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Revista Latinoamericana de Desarrollo Económico
On-line version ISSN 2074-4706
Abstract
ENRIQUEZ PEREZ, Isaac. The Conceptions of Progress and the Project to construct a Nation: towards a History of Ideas during the Extended XIX century in Mexico (1821-1910). rlde [online]. 2018, n.30, pp.117-164. ISSN 2074-4706.
The present article, beyond the sharp and worn signs that divided the nineteenth century societies that gave birth to political independence in Latin America, has as its central objective to provide an overview of the concepts of progress disseminated in Mexico between 1821 and 1910, emphasizing the reception, re-elaboration, diffusion and public incidence of this notion, not without briefly analyzing the economic history of the time in question and the impact of the policy strategies inspired by these conceptions. Throughout the manuscript the positions and postures of different thinkers and ideologists with regard to the role and functions of the State in the construction of markets and in the distribution of wealth are traced, seeking an archeology of thought that unravels the transformation of the history of Mexican ideas exposed to the heat of the convulse of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century, and succeeded in shaping the identity of the nation-state and rooted the foundations of capitalism based on the influence of liberalism in its various aspects and the institutional framework that also inspired this ideology.
Keywords : Progress; state formation; liberal nationalism; free trade/protectionism; industrialization; secularization; land ownership.