Constructing Valparaiso: Infrastructure and the Politics of Progress in Chile's Port, 1842--1918
Martland, Samuel Jefferson
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Description
Title
Constructing Valparaiso: Infrastructure and the Politics of Progress in Chile's Port, 1842--1918
Author(s)
Martland, Samuel Jefferson
Issue Date
2003
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Love, Joseph L.
Department of Study
History
Discipline
History
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
History, Modern
Language
eng
Abstract
The municipal government's expansion of city planning, safety regulations, and public utilities provided a precedent and a foundation for the central government's intervention in commercial and private affairs in the early twentieth century. Thus, local politics contributed directly to the formation of the kind of state familiar to twentieth-century Chileans. However, until late in the period, state-controlled projects and foreign investment, upon which most Latin American urban historiography has focused, were far less important than the ideas, abilities, and limitations of local business and municipal government. The benefits and evils often attributed to foreign and state enterprises existed from the early nineteenth century and were simply expanded by the more sweeping projects that came later. Moreover, the adoption or rejection of new technology depended more on municipal relations with concessionaires, intra-elite conflict, and potential city revenue, than on opportunities for private profit or social control.
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