Arbo, Desiree (2016) The uses of classical learning in the Río de la Plata, c. 1750-1815. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.

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This thesis explores the uses of classical learning in colonial Rio de la Plata and early independent Paraguay (c.1767-1815). It examines different ways in which classical influences are discernible: in the works of the Jesuit José Manuel Peramás (Chapters 1 and 2), in colonial classrooms and library inventories (Chapter 3), and in the political discourse of Paraguayan independence (Chapter 4). As missionaries, educators and authors of Latin literature, the Jesuits exerted a powerful cultural force in the Rio de la Plata until their expulsion in 1767, yet their legacy in the intellectual life of colonial Paraguay has been neglected; Paraguayan historians dismiss the colonial period as a time of cultural stagnation, only revived by the importation of Enlightenment ideas from Europe and North America in the late eighteenth century. Yet these same scholars have not satisfactorily explained the ideology of the independence, given that the political rhetoric of the new republics was not always consistent with Enlightenment ideals. My thesis takes a revisionist point of view, arguing that the uses of classical knowledge reflected broader intellectual trends in the transition from the colonial to independent periods which help explain the initial construction of national identities in the Rio de la Plata.

Item Type:	Thesis (PhD)
Subjects:	E History America > E11 America (General) L Education > LC Special aspects of education
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Classical education -- Río de la Plata (Argentina and Uruguay), Classical education -- Paraguay, Rio de la Plata (Argentina and Uruguay) -- History -- 18th century, Rio de la Plata (Argentina and Uruguay) -- Intellectual life -- 18th century, Paraguay -- History -- 18th century, Paraguay -- Intellectual life -- 18th century
Official Date:	September 2016
Dates:	Date Event September 2016 Submitted
Institution:	University of Warwick
Theses Department:	Department of Classics and Ancient History
Thesis Type:	PhD
Publication Status:	Unpublished
Supervisor(s)/Advisor:	Laird, Andrew, Dr. ; Earle, Rebecca
Sponsors:	University of Warwick. Graduate School
Format of File:	pdf
Extent:	x, 271 leaves : illustrations, maps
Language:	eng

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