Independence in Latin America

Contrasts and Comparisons

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

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In the course of fifteen momentous years, the Spanish- and the Portuguese-American empires that had endured for three centuries came to an end in the mid-1820s. How did this come about? Not all Latin Americans desired such a change, and the independence wars were civil wars, often cruel and always violent. What social and economic groups lined up on one side or the other? Were there variations from place to place, region to region? Did men and women differ in their experience of war? How did Indians and blacks participate and how did they fare as a result? In the end, who won and who lost?Independence in Latin America is about the reciprocal effect of war and social dislocation. It also demonstrates that the war itself led to national identity and so to the creation of new states. These governments generally acknowledged the novel principle of constitutionalism and popular sovereignty, even when sometimes carving out exceptions to such rules. The notion that society consisted of individuals and was not a body made up of castes, guilds, and other corporate orders had become commonplace by the end of these wars. So international politics and military confrontations are only part of the intriguing story recounted here.For this third edition, Richard Graham has written a new introduction and extensively revised and updated the text. He has also added new illustrations and maps.

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Utgivningsdatum2013-05-01
Mått152 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt313 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor208
FörlagUniversity of Texas Press
ISBN9780292745346

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RICHARD GRAHAM is Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin. His most recent book is the prize-winning Feeding the City: From Street Market to Liberal Reform in Salvador, Brazil, 1780–1860. He is the author of Patronage and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Brazil; Britain and the Onset of Modernization in Brazil; and several edited books, including The Idea of Race in Latin America, 1870–1940.

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. Colonies in Flux Ruler and RuledTrade with Whom?A Corporate SocietyReligion and the EnlightenmentHaitiChapter 2. Reactions to Change Argentina and UruguayChileComparisonsVenezuelaMexicoCentral AmericaComparisonsPeruBrazilComparisonsChapter 3. Toward War Who Wanted Change?European EventsSpanish American ResponsesChapter 4. The First War of Independence, 1810–1816 ArgentinaUruguayParaguayChileVenezuelaColombiaPeru and BoliviaMexicoBrazilCommonalities and DifferencesChapter 5. The Second War of Independence, 1815–1825 Repercussion of European EventsVenezuela and ColombiaArgentina and UruguayChile, Peru, and BoliviaMexicoCentral AmericaBrazilCommonalities and DifferencesChapter 6. What Changed? The Cost of WarAn Altered Cultural RealitySocial TensionsInstability and the CaudilloInclusion in the World EconomyDocumentsFor Further ReadingChronologyNotesGlossaryIllustration CreditsIndex

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