The Cambridge companion to Latin American independence / edited by Marcela Echeverri, Yale University, Cristina Soriano, the University of Texas at Austin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Echeverri, Marcela, 1974- editor, author.

Soriano, Cristina, 1975- editor, author.

Series:

Cambridge companions.

Cambridge companions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Latin America.

Latin America--History--Wars of Independence, 1806-1830.

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

Latin America--Politics and government.

Latin America--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

Bringing together experts across Latin America, North America, and Spain, The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Independence innovatively revisits Latin American independence within a larger regional, temporal, and thematic framework to highlight its significance for the Age of Atlantic Revolutions. The volume offers a synthetic yet comprehensive tool for understanding and assessing the most current studies in the field and their analytical contributions to the broader historiography. Organized thematically and across different regions of the Iberian Peninsula and Spanish and Luso America, the essays deepen well-known conclusions and reveal new interpretations. They offer analytical interventions that produce new questions on periodization, the meaning of anti-colonialism, liberalism, and republicanism, as well as the militarization of societies, public opinion, the role of sciences, labor regimes, and gender dynamics. A much-needed addition to the existing scholarship, this volume brings a transnational perspective to a critical period of history in Latin America.

Contents:

List of figures

List of maps

List of contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Rethinking Latin American independence in the twenty-first century / Marcela Echeverri and Cristina Soriano

On the origins of Latin American independence: a reappraisal of colonial crisis, popular politics, and Atlantic revolution in the eighteenth century / Sinclair Thomson

Constitutionalism and representation in Ibero-America during the independence processes / Marcela Ternavasio

Foreign interaction and the independence of Latin America: local dynamics, Atlantic processes / Ernesto Bassi and Fabrício Prado

Public opinion and militarization during the Wars of Independence / Alejandro M. Rabinovich and Cristina Soriano

Natural histories of remembrance and forgetting: science and independence in the Spanish and Portuguese Americas / Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra and Neil Safier

Brothers in arms: Freemasonry in Latin American independence / Karen Racine

Beyond heroes and heroines: gendering Latin America independence / Sarah C. Chambers

Views on the Latin American independences from the Iberian Peninsula / Álvaro Caso Bello and Gabriel Paquette

Shades of unfreedom: labor regimes in Latin America in the nineteenth century / Marcela Echeverri and Roquinaldo Ferreira

Early liberalism: emancipation and its limits / José M. Portillo

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 16 Mar 2023).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781108618601

110861860X

9781108679336

1108679331