“The book focuses mainly on the midcentury period, roughly 1840-80, and covers important encounters between transatlantic republicans in the process of nation building...An important book.” - K. L. Racine (Choice) "While <i>The Vanguard of the Atlantic World</i> speaks most directly to scholars of intellectual and political history, students interested in racial relations would benefit greatly from this book. Throughout, Sanders writes in a lucid and engaging style. Without a doubt, Sanders successfully demonstrates the importance of Latin American political thought for the nineteenth century and beyond." - Rachael L. Pasierowska (History) "Insightful, profusely documented, creatively organized, and clearly written,... <i>The Vanguard of the Atlantic World</i> shall become indispensable to those interested in the history of political culture, democracy, and republicanism not only in Latin America but across the globe." - Victor M. Uribe-Uran (Ethnohistory) "[T]his is an enormously thought-provoking book, one that should spark productive debate and dialogue, within Latin Americanist circles and beyond." - Karen D. Caplan (The Americas) "Ambitious and important. . . . James E. Sanders must be praised for his perseverance in stubbornly maintaining his focus on popular engagement with the egalitarian, democratic, and republican ideas that pervaded the nineteenth-century Atlantic world." - Guy Thomson (Hispanic American Historical Review)