The Geographical Journal

The Geographical Journal
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 818
Release: 1909
Genre: Geography
ISBN:

Includes the Proceedings of the Royal geographical society, formerly pub. separately.

Bolívar’s Afterlife in the Americas

Bolívar’s Afterlife in the Americas
Author: Robert T. Conn
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 527
Release: 2020-04-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 3030262189

Simón Bolívar is the preeminent symbol of Latin America and the subject of seemingly endless posthumous attention. Interpreted and reinterpreted in biographies, histories, political writings, speeches, and works of art and fiction, he has been a vehicle for public discourse for the past two centuries. Robert T. Conn follows the afterlives of Bolívar across the Americas, tracing his presence in a range of competing but interlocking national stories. How have historians, writers, statesmen, filmmakers, and institutions reworked his life and writings to make cultural and political claims? How has his legacy been interpreted in the countries whose territories he liberated, as well as in those where his importance is symbolic, such as the United States? In answering these questions, Conn illuminates the history of nation building and hemispheric globalism in the Americas.