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

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Journal of Global History Pub Date : 2021-05-21 DOI:10.1017/S1740022821000152

Alessandro Bonvini, Stephen Jacobson

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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.

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民主帝国主义与兴起的殖民主义：19世纪50年代阿根廷潘帕岛上的欧洲军团

摘要在1848年欧洲革命之后，民主民族主义促进了被压迫人民从专制帝国的枷锁中解放出来，并预言了民族国家的世界主义兄弟情谊的出现。然而，从全球角度来看，这种政治文化可能是帝国主义的。布宜诺斯艾利斯州州长模仿了白人在法属阿尔及利亚的潘帕斯殖民计划。他们派遣了一支军事农业军团前往巴塔哥尼亚边境附近的巴哈布兰卡飞地，参加对抗印第安人的战争。作为加里波第的意大利蒙得维的亚军团的继任者，其领导人承诺以哥伦布的精神和复兴运动的名义将文明带到野蛮的土地上。这个案例研究为了解拉丁美洲和欧洲之间关于征服和殖民的思想提供了一个窗口。扩张和分裂、帝国和民族、混血和种族等级制度、世界主义和冒险主义，都共存于一个纠缠的共和宇宙中。

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期刊介绍： Journal of Global History addresses the main problems of global change over time, together with the diverse histories of globalization. It also examines counter-currents to globalization, including those that have structured other spatial units. The journal seeks to transcend the dichotomy between "the West and the rest", straddle traditional regional boundaries, relate material to cultural and political history, and overcome thematic fragmentation in historiography. The journal also acts as a forum for interdisciplinary conversations across a wide variety of social and natural sciences. Published for London School of Economics and Political Science