IngentaConnect The republic regenerated

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Abstract:

This article explores the early history of republicanism in Latin America through the writings of Francisco Bilbao, one of Chile's most important nineteenth-century radical intellectuals. Bilbao's thinking about revolutionary change in Chile was heavily influenced by his understanding of the French revolutionary republican tradition. The article examines the transatlantic connections that shaped Bilbao's thought, the development of “second-generation” republicanism in Chile, and the French Revolutions of 1789 and 1848. It argues that the “regeneration” of the Chilean republic became a kind of mission for Bilbao and his generation of Chilean university students. In pursuing this mission, they became intermediaries between the cutting edge of Atlantic political thought and the stubborn social realities of postcolonial Chile. The article also shows how Bilbao's radical liberalism inspired a ferocious counterattack by Chile's conservative Catholic Church, indicating how the Church would respond to future challenges to its authority.