Print version: Sanders, James E. Vanguard of the Atlantic world : creating modernity, nation, and democracy in nineteenth-century Latin America. Durham : Duke University Press, 2014 ISBN 9780822357643
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction: American republican modernity -- Garibaldi, the Garibaldinos, and the Guerra Grande -- "A pueblo unfit to live among civilized nations" : conceptions of modernity after independence -- The San Patricio Battalion -- Eagles of American democracy: the flowering of American republican modernity -- Francisco Bilbao and the Atlantic imagination -- David Pena and black liberalism -- The collapse of American republican modernity -- Conclusion: a "gift that the New World has sent us".