1. Republics of the possible: state building in Latin America and Spain Miguel Centeno and Agustin Ferraro
2. The construction of national states, 1820–90: five cases, multiple variables Frank Safford
3. State building in Western Europe and the Americas before and in the long nineteenth century: some preliminary considerations Wolfgang Knoebl
4. The state and development under the Brazilian monarchy:
1822–89 Jeffrey Needell
5. The Brazilian federal state in the old republic (1889–1930): did regime change make a difference? Joseph E. Love
6. The Mexican state, Porfirian and revolutionary (1876–1930) Alan Knight
7. Nicaragua: the difficult creation of a sovereign state Salvador Martí
8. Friends' tax. Patronage, fiscality and state building in Argentina and Spain Claudia Herrera and Agustin Ferraro
9. Ideological pragmatism and non-partisan expertise in nineteenth-century Chile: Andrés Bello's contribution to state and nation building Iván Jaksic
10. Militarization without bureaucratization in Central America James Mahoney
11. Between 'Empleomanía' and the common good: successful expert bureaucracies in Argentina (1870–1930) Ricardo Salvatore
12. Elite preferences, administrative institutions, and educational development during Peru's Aristocratic Republic (1895–1919) Hillel Soifer
13. Liberalism in the Iberian world 1808–25 Roberto Breña
14. Visions of the national: natural endowments, futures, and the evils of men Fernando López-Alves
15. Spanish national identity in the age of nationalisms José Alvarez Junco
16. Census taking and nation making in nineteenth-century Latin America Mara Loveman
17. Citizens before the law: the role of courts in post-independence state building in Spanish America Sara Chambers
18. Visualizing the nation: the mid-nineteenth-century Colombian chorographic commission Nancy Applebaum
19. Paper leviathans. Historical legacies and state strength in contemporary Latin America and Spain Miguel Centeno and Agustin Ferraro.
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