Description
The Oxford Handbook of Revolutionary Elections in the Americas, 1800-1910, presents a unique comparative political history spanning from Jefferson's election to the campaign that led to the Mexican revolution of 1910. By focusing on revolutionary elections-those of a contested, contentious nature that bore highly consequential outcomes-this volume sheds light on how institutions were inaugurated or transformed, how substantial issues were settled, and how political behaviour was changed. After offering overviews of the electoral history of the United States, Latin America and Canada, the Handbook examines key elections in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, México, Perú, the US and Venezuela. Case studies of individual countries then serve as the basis for wider continental analysis of electoral violence, electoral corruption and electoral administration before concluding with some reflections on the need to approach the political history of the Americas from a comparative perspective. This wide lens makes this volume a novel contribution to the study of elections and an indispensable resource for anyone seeking to understand electoral politics and democracy in broader context.
Table of Contents
About the Editors Contributors Introduction Eduardo Posada-Carbó and Andrew W. Robertson PART I: CONTEXTS Chapter 1: Revolutionary Elections in the United States. “Electocracy” in America Jeffrey Pasley Chapter 2: Suffrage and Electoral Practices in Nineteenth-Century Latin America Hilda Sábato Chapter 3: Elections, Self-Government, and Settler Colonial Rule in British North America Jarett Henderson PART II: REVOLUTIONARY ELECTIONS Chapter 4: The First "Revolutionary Election" Andrew Robertson Chapter 5: The US Presidential Election of 1824 Donald Ratcliffe Chapter 6: Elections in Mexico, 1828 Richard Warren Chapter 7: Prelude to Dictatorship: the Elections of 1827, 1828 and 1829 in Buenos Aires Marcela Ternavasio Chapter 8: Road to Revolution: The 1834 Election in Lower Canadian Politics Renaud Séguin Chapter 9: The Reluctant President: Regime Change in Venezuela, 1834-35 Reuben Zahler Chapter 10: The Revolutionary Election of 1836-1837 in New Granada Eduardo Posada-Carbó Chapter 11: The Contested Peruvian Election of 1850 and the 1854 Revolution Natalia Sobrevilla Chapter 12: Contingency and the Canvass: Abraham Lincoln and the Pivotal Election of 1860 Jonathan Earle Chapter 13: Contentious Elections and Democratization: The Peculiar Significance of the Presidential Contest of 1864 Richard Carwardine Chapter 14: The Election of 1867 in Nova Scotia, Canada David Martin Chapter 15: The Peruvian Presidential Election of 1871-1872 Carmen McEvoy Chapter 16: The US Presidential Election of 1876-1877 Mark Summers Chapter 17: The Mexican Presidential Election of 1876 José Antonio Aguilar Chapter 18: The Argentine Presidential Election of 1880 Paula Alonso Chapter 19: The Brazilian Election of 1884 Jeffrey D. Needell Chapter 20: The Revolutionary Elections in Costa Rica in 1889 Fabrice Lehoucq Chapter 21: The Chilean Presidential Election of 1891 Macarena Ponce de León Chapter 22: The Congressional Election of 1899 in Brazil Paolo Ricci and Jacqueline Zulini Chapter 23: The Cuban presidential election of 1905 Bonnie Lucero Chapter 24: The 1910 Presidential Election in Mexico: The Emergence of a New Democratic Political Culture Alicia Salmerón and Israel Arroyo PART III: COMPARATIVE AND INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES Chapter 25: Electoral Fraud and Revolutionary Elections Ezequiel González Ocanto and Svitlana Chernykh Chapter 26: A Tumultuous Decade: Elections in British North America (Canada) during the 1840s Scott See Chapter 27: The Age of Classical Electoral Governance Fabrice Lehoucq Chapter 28: Revolutionary Elections and the 'Loser's Consent' Laurence Whitehead Index
