During the 1820s, Colombia's diplomats in London, Washington and Philadelphia worked hard to obtain diplomatic recognition for their nascent republic. Their efforts were also geared towards making Colombia attractive to European and North American settlers whose industry and work ethic would, they hoped, turn it into a civilised and modern Euro-Atlantic nation. The immigration schemes they promoted enable us to understand the type of nations the nation-makers of post-independence Spanish America envisioned and how, by appealing to sentiments of hemispheric solidarity – among other means – they sought to turn their visions into reality. A comparison with similar eighteenth-century schemes promoted by the Bourbons, moreover, reveals the persistence, albeit with some critical modifications, of late-colonial ways of thinking and envisioning society.

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“哥伦比亚的富兰克林”：移民计划和半球团结在建设一个文明的哥伦比亚国家

在 1820 年代，哥伦比亚驻伦敦、华盛顿和费城的外交官努力为他们新生的共和国获得外交承认。他们的努力还旨在使哥伦比亚对欧洲和北美定居者具有吸引力，他们希望他们的工业和职业道德能够将其变成一个文明和现代的欧洲-大西洋国家。他们推动的移民计划使我们能够了解独立后西班牙裔美国的国家制造者所设想的国家类型，以及他们如何通过诉诸西半球团结的情绪——以及其他方式——试图将他们的愿景变为现实。此外，与波旁王朝提倡的类似 18 世纪计划的比较揭示了持久性，尽管有一些关键的修改，