The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Independence

Marcela Echeverri is Associate Professor of History at Yale University. Her book Indian and Slave Royalists in the Age of Revolution: Reform, Revolution, and Royalism in the Northern Andes, 1780–1825, won the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Michael Jiménez Prize. Cristina Soriano is Associate Professor of History at The University of Texas at Austin. Her book Information, Insurgencies, and the Crisis of Colonial Rule in Venezuela won the 2019 Bolton-Johnson Award from The Conference on Latin American History (CLAH).

• Introduction: Rethinking Latin American independence in the twenty-first century Marcela Echeverri and Cristina Soriano; 1. On the origins of Latin American independence: A reappraisal of colonial crisis, popular politics and Atlantic revolution in the eighteenth century Sinclair Thomson; 2. Constitutionalism and representation in Ibero-America during the independence processes Marcela Ternavasio; 3. Foreign interaction and the independence of Latin America: Local dynamics, Atlantic processes Ernesto Bassi and Fabrício Prado; 4. Public opinion and militarization during the wars of independence Alejandro M Rabinovich and Cristina Soriano; 5. Natural histories of remembrance and forgetting: Science and independence in the Spanish and Portuguese Americas Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra and Neil Safier; 6. Brothers in arms: Freemasonry in Latin American independence Karen Racine; 7. Beyond heroes and heroines: Gendering Latin American independence Sarah C Chambers; 8. Views on the Latin American independences from the Iberian Peninsula Álvaro Caso Bello and Gabriel Paquette; 9. Shades of unfreedom: Labor regimes in Latin America in the nineteenth century Marcela Echeverri and Roquinaldo Ferreira; 10. Early liberalism: Emancipation and its limits José M Portillo; Bibliography; Index.

'A truly essential companion, this book permeates the mutual isolation between Luso-Brazilian and Spanish-American historiography, reconnects the crisis of 1808 with the processes of the 18th century, and illuminates intellectual, political, military, commercial, and labor relations that intertwined local dynamics with global trends, actors of both genders and varied fields, and narratives of past and future.' Margarita Garrido, author of Reclamos y representaciones: variaciones sobre la poliìtica en el Nuevo Reino de Granada, 1770–1815