The traditions of liberty in the Atlantic world : origins, ideas and practices / edited by Francisco Colom González, Angel Rivero.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Colom González, Francisco, editor.

Rivero, Ángel (Rivero Rodríguez), editor.

Series:

Atlantic world (Leiden, Netherlands) ; Volume 32.

Atlantic World : Europe, Africa and the Americas, 1500-1830, 1570-0542 ; Volume 32

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Liberty--Latin America--History.

Liberty.

Liberty--North America--History.

Latin America--History--Autonomy and independence movements.

Latin America.

North America--History--Autonomy and independence movements.

North America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (218 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume addresses the political traditions that flourished in regions traditionally neglected by Atlantic history, but which are nevertheless indispensable for a comprehensive interpretation of political modernity. The history of political liberty simply cannot be reconstructed without taking into account the role of the Atlantic as a space for the circulation of ideas. The different chapters trace the origins of the Atlantic notions of liberty in the crisis of the colonial world, in the diverse processes that led to independence from the metropolis, and in the subsequent efforts to build a constitutional order. The book takes an innovative approach by putting together experiences of the English, Portuguese, and Spanish Atlantic and by dealing with political ideas as discursive and socially embedded practices.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Francisco Colom González and Angel Rivero

Introduction / Francisco Colom and Angel Rivero

Brazil and the Languages of Modernity / Rubem Barboza Filho

Empire, Nation, and Republic in the Transformation of the Modern Hispanic World / Anthony Pagden

Ibero-American Republican Humanism and the Intellectual Roots of Mexican Independence / Ambrosio Velasco

Decorum and Liberty in the Spanish-American Revolutions of Independence / José María Hernández

The American Independences and the Crisis of the Ancien Régime Republic: A Comparative View of the United States and Brazil / Cicero Araujo and Gabriela Nunes Ferreira

The Tradition of Liberty in Canada at the End of the Eighteenth Century / Michel Ducharme

The Portuguese Uprising of 1820: A Forgotten Atlantic Revolution / Angel Rivero

Liberal Ideas and Patrimonial Practices in Nineteenth-Century Spanish America / Francisco Colom González

Index / Francisco Colom González and Angel Rivero.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-29968-8

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004299689 DOI