{"product_id":"reforming-chile-patrick-barr-melej-9780807849194","title":"Reforming Chile: Cultural Politics, Nationalism, and the Rise of the Middle Class","description":"Highlighting the crucial yet largely overlooked role played by society's middle layers in the historical development of Latin America, Patrick Barr-Melej provides the first comprehensive analysis of the rise of Chile's middle-class reform movement and its profound impact on that country's cultural and political landscapes. He shows how a diverse collection of middle-class intellectuals, writers, politicians, educators, and bureaucrats forged a \"progressive\" nationalism and advanced an ambitious cultural-political project between the 1890s and 1940s. Together, reformers challenged the power of elite groups and sought to quell working-class revolutionary activism as they endeavored to democratize culture and fortify liberal democracy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUsing sources that range from archival documents and newspapers to short stories, novels, and school textbooks, Barr-Melej examines the reform movement's cultural ideas and their political applications, especially as they were articulated in the areas of literature and public education. In the process, he provides a new framework for understanding Chile's cultural and political evolution, as well as the complicated place of the middle class in a society experiencing the swift changes inherent in capitalist modernization. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Patrick Barr-Melej\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0807849197\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807849194\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of North Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/21\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d","brand":"Patrick Barr-Melej","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926310125823,"sku":"9780807849194","price":42.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_9430fb90-da01-4f27-923a-008f82bfcaaa.jpg?v=1681082357","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/reforming-chile-patrick-barr-melej-9780807849194","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}