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Modern State Formation

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War of the Pacific and Territorial Consolidation (1879–1884)

1879 - 1884

Railways, Ports, and State-led Infrastructure Expansion (1840–1914)

1849 - 1914

Radical and Popular Front Governments: Welfare and State Policy (1938–1970)

1938 - 1970

Pinochet Regime: Authoritarian State-building and Constitutional Redesign (1973–1990)

1973 - 1990

Parliamentary Republic and Oligarchic Politics (1891–1925)

1891 - 1925

Occupation of the Araucanía (Pacification of Araucanía) (1861–1883)

1852 - 1887

Nitrate Boom and Fiscal-State Transformation (1879–1930)

1879 - 1930

Labor Movement, Social Legislation, and Unionization (1890–1952)

1890 - 1953

Formation of the Chilean Bureaucracy and Judicial Institutions (1830–1925)

1830 - 1925

Electoral Reform, Suffrage Expansion, and Party System Formation (1866–1932)

1833 - 1932

Early Republican Turmoil and Civil War (1823–1830)

1823 - 1830

Constitution of 1833 and the Conservative Republic (1833–1861)

1830 - 1861

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