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Author | : Robert Harvey |
Publisher | : Harry N. Abrams |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2002-06-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781585672844 |
Describes the lives and deaths of the seven Liberators, the men who led Latin America's fight for independence and won it in a span of only twenty years after three centuries of Spanish domination.
Author | : Leslie Bethell |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1987-05-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521349277 |
Latin America's quest for independence is revealed through the national struggles of Mexico, Spanish Central and South America, and Brazil. Excerpted from the Cambridge History of Latin America.
Author | : Catherine Davies |
Publisher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 184631027X |
Examining women writers from Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Colombia, this book traces the contradictions inherent in revolutionary movements that, while arguing for the rights of all, remained ambivalent, at best, about the place of women. It reveals the complex role of women in shaping the vexed ideologies of independence.
Author | : John Chasteen |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0195178815 |
In 1808, world history took a decisive turn when Napoleon occupied Spain and Portugal, a European event that had lasting repercussions more than half the world away, sparking a series of revolutions throughout the Spanish and Portuguese empires of the New World. These wars for independence resulted eventually in the creation of nineteen independent Latin American republics.Here is an engagingly written, compact history of the Latin American wars of independence. Proceeding almost cinematically, scene by vivid scene, John Charles Chasteen introduces the reader to lead players, basic concepts, key events, and dominant trends, braided together in a single, taut narrative. He vividly depicts the individuals and events of those tumultuous years. Here are the famous leaders--Simon Bolivar, Jose de San Martin, and Bernardo O'Higgins, Father Hidalgo and Father Morelos, and many others. Here too are lesser known Americanos: patriot women such as Manuela Saenz, Leona Vicario, Mariquita Sanchez, Juana Azurduy, and Policarpa Salavarrieta, indigenous rebels such as Mateo Pumacahua, and African-descended generals such as Vicente Guerrero and Manuel Piar. Chasteen captures the gathering forces for independence, the clashes of troops and decisions of leaders, and the rich, elaborate tapestry of Latin American societies as they embraced nationhood. By the end of the period, the leaders of Latin American independence would embrace classical liberal principles--particularly popular sovereignty and self-determination--and permanently expanding the global reach of Western political values.Today, most of the world's oldest functioning republics are Latin American. And yet, Chasteen observes, many suffer from a troubled political legacy that dates back to their birth. In this book, he illuminates this legacy, even as he illustrates how the region's dramatic struggle for independence points unmistakably forward in world history.
Author | : Jaime E. Rodríguez O. |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1998-05-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521626736 |
This book provides a new interpretation of Spanish American independence, emphasising political processes.
Author | : Jose C. Moya |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 551 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0195166205 |
This Oxford Handbook comprehensively examines the field of Latin American history.
Author | : Christon I. Archer |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780842024693 |
This volume of readings examines the revolutions, civil wars, guerrilla struggles, insurgencies, counter-insurgencies, and interventions of this period. Offering a solid perspective on the Independence period, The Wars of Independence is an excellent text for Latin American survey courses and courses focusing on the colonial era.
Author | : Luis Bértola |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press (UK) |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2012-10-25 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0199662142 |
A comprehensive and accessible overview of the economic history of Latin America over the two centuries since Independence. It considers its principal problems and the main policy trends and covers external trade, economic growth, and inequality.
Author | : Meredith Day |
Publisher | : Encyclopaedia Britannica |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 2015-07-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1680480316 |
Between 1808 and 1826, all of mainland Latin America became independent from Spain and Portugal, the colonial powers that had ruled the region for three centuries. Undesirable economic restrictions and a caste system that favored those born in Europe made the conditions for revolution ripe in the Americas. Combined with the actions of insightful leaders-most notably Simon Bolivar and Jose de San Martin-Latin American independence was all but guaranteed. This title explores the revolutions, their historical causes, and the new nations' ensuing struggles, providing invaluable context for understanding the culture, politics, and social identity of the region today."
Author | : Caitlin Fitz |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2016-07-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0871407655 |
Winner of the James H. Broussard First Book Prize PROSE Award in U.S. History (Honorable Mention) A major new interpretation recasts U.S. history between revolution and civil war, exposing a dramatic reversal in sympathy toward Latin American revolutions. In the early nineteenth century, the United States turned its idealistic gaze southward, imagining a legacy of revolution and republicanism it hoped would dominate the American hemisphere. From pulsing port cities to Midwestern farms and southern plantations, an adolescent nation hailed Latin America’s independence movements as glorious tropical reprises of 1776. Even as Latin Americans were gradually ending slavery, U.S. observers remained energized by the belief that their founding ideals were triumphing over European tyranny among their “sister republics.” But as slavery became a violently divisive issue at home, goodwill toward antislavery revolutionaries waned. By the nation’s fiftieth anniversary, republican efforts abroad had become a scaffold upon which many in the United States erected an ideology of white U.S. exceptionalism that would haunt the geopolitical landscape for generations. Marshaling groundbreaking research in four languages, Caitlin Fitz defines this hugely significant, previously unacknowledged turning point in U.S. history.