The struggle for power in post-independence Colombia and Venezuela / Matthew Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Matthew, 1975-

Series:

Studies of the Americas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Córdova, José María, 1799-1829.

Assassination.

History.

Colombia--History--1822-1832.

Colombia.

Venezuela--History--1810-1832.

Venezuela.

Santuario, Battle of, Colombia, 1829.

Córdova, José María, 1799-1829--Assassination.

Córdova, José María.

Physical Description:

xviii, 245 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2012]

Summary:

The Struggle for Power in Post-Independence Colombia and Venezuela is a collective biography of the veterans of the battle of El Santuario (1829), examining the history of the imperial conflicts that shaped politics and society in Colombia and Venezuela after independence from colonial rule. After the battle, an Irish mercenary in the Colombian service, Rupert Hand, murdered a rebel general, José María Córdova. The analysis of this book, stretching from 1820 to 1854, situates this imperial murder and the battle it followed within their regional, national, and Atlantic contexts and shows how local processes arid imperial ambitions shaped history. Using the lives and writings of soldiers, lovers, diplomats, explorers, slaves, librarians, and murderers, Brown uncovers the history of nation-building and imperial expansion in Latin America's nineteenth century. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 The World in Revolution 15

Chapter 2 The Narrowing Stage: From Global to Local 27

Chapter 3 The Road to War 39

Chapter 4 The Battle of El Santuario 61

Chapter 5 Counterrevolutions 75

Chapter 6 Trials and Exiles 95

Chapter 7 National Consolidation 115

Chapter 8 Wars and Repatriations 129

Chapter 9 The End of Bolivarian Networks 145.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230341319

0230341314

OCLC:

757475484