Independence and Nation-Building in Latin America

Scott Eastman, Professor of Transnational History at Creighton University, USA, most recently has written A Missionary Nation: Race, Religion, and Spain’s Age of Liberal Imperialism, 1841–1881 (2021) and contributed articles to European History Quarterly and Historia y Política, among other journals. He has received major funding from LASA and the Fulbright Commission.Natalia Sobrevilla Perea, Professor of Latin American History at the University of Kent, UK, has written The Caudillo of the Andes: Andrés de Santa Cruz (2011), in addition to several books in Spanish. She has published in European History Quarterly and The Americas and has been funded by grants and awards from the Leverhulme Trust, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, LASA, and the British Academy.

• Introduction / 1. Colonialism, Enlightenment, and Reform / 2. Sovereignty and Insurgency in the Revolutionary Atlantic / 3. The 1814 Restoration / 4. Total War / 5. Loyalism, Monarchy and Constitutionalism in America / 6. Nations-in-the-Making: The Republican Tradition in Latin America / 7. Epilogue: Postcolonialism / Appendix: Primary Source Documents

Eastman and Sobrevilla Perea broaden our understanding of Latin American independence by exposing the multifaceted and multilayered nature of this transformative period. This nuanced history gives voice not only to familiar names but also to heretofore-underrepresented participants and explores the complex motivations that inspired both the defenders of empire and their opponents. Ambitious and creative in its approach, Independence and Nation-Building in Latin America will inform the debate around this subject for a new generation of students and scholars.Dr. Timothy Hawkins, Indiana State University, USA