Marcelo Somarriva

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor at Adolfo Ibáñez University

Contrasting a series of testimonies by intellectuals, politicians, diplomats, and reformists living in Peru, Argentina, and Chile in the decades immediately after independence, this chapter explores the meanings of statistics in an environment of rapid institutional change. The contemporary allegories of the ‘philosophical eye’ and the ‘industrial...

This article examines how newspapers, periodicals and books represented the southern part of America between 1810 and 1820. Although the region made up of Argentina, Chile and Perú was important for British trade, this article proposes that there was a considerable lack of first-hand information about it during that decade. Most of the material the...

This thesis explores the relationship between Great Britain and the Southern Cone of America between 1808 and 1830, from the perspective of the cultural representations which both regions developed about themselves and about each other. In order to do so, this work consulted newspapers, journals, pamphlets, prospectuses and books published in Great...