Las Luces y La Civilizacion: The Social Reforms of Mariano Galvez (Pamphlet)
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Author: Williford, Miriam (1926-1998)
Publisher: Middle American Research Institute, Tulane University (New Orleans, LA)
Pub Date: 1969
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Fair. Ex-library. Stapled binding tight. No tears, bends or folds. Library stamps on both upper front cover corners. Library markings (in pencil) on upper corner title page. Very light edge and corner wear.
Notes: Pamphlet. Offprint. Applied Enlightenment: 19th Century Liberalism, Publication 23, Number 2. Mariano Galvez (c. 1794-1862), Liberal Chief-of-State of Guatemala from 1831 to 1838, tried to bring Guatemala into the nineteenth century with his reforms–first universal education, then diminishing the power of the Catholic Church (oh they didn’t like that), then, with a few exceptions, diminishing the production of alcoholic beverages, trial by jury, public works (sewer systems, public fountains for clean water), burials in public cemeteries instead of inside churches, establishment of a newspaper, a theater and a museum. And then cholera came to town. The indigenes, angered by these “Liberal” innovations, rebelled. Galvez was forced to resign as the rebellion grew, and his innovations “…had virtually ceased to function after cholera had provoked the people to rebellion.” (Page 40). Use the word “horticulture” in a sentence. “You can lead a horticulture but you can’t make her think.”
