Author: Academia Nacional de la Historia (Venezuela).
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : es
Pages : 616

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Author: Simón Bolívar
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198033079
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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General Simón Bolívar (1783-1830), called El Liberator, and sometimes the "George Washington" of Latin America, was the leading hero of the Latin American independence movement. His victories over Spain won independence for Bolivia, Panama, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. Bolívar became Columbia's first president in 1819. In 1822, he became dictator of Peru. Upper Peru became a separate state, which was named Bolivia in Bolívar's honor, in 1825. The constitution, which he drew up for Bolivia, is one of his most important political pronouncements. Today he is remembered throughout South America, and in Venezuela and Bolivia his birthday is a national holiday. Although Bolívar never prepared a systematic treatise, his essays, proclamations, and letters constitute some of the most eloquent writing not of the independence period alone, but of any period in Latin American history. His analysis of the region's fundamental problems, ideas on political organization and proposals for Latin American integration are relevant and widely read today, even among Latin Americans of all countries and of all political persuasions. The "Cartagena Letter," the "Jamaica Letter," and the "Angostura Address," are widely cited and reprinted.

Author: James Alexander Robertson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 722

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Includes "Bibliographical section".

Author: Jay Kinsbruner
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826321770
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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"Clearly laid out in this book is an insightful interpretation of a pivotal era in world history. The turbulent history of the independence movements is set forth with attention to key figures and their ideologies, regional differences, and the legacy of the wars of independence."--BOOK JACKET.

Author: Eduardo Posada-Carbo
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197631576
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 449

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"This book explores the ways in which people in Latin America and the Caribbean joined with others in Europe and the United States to re-imagine the ancient term "democracy", so as to give it relevance and power in the modern world. In all these regions, that process largely followed the French Revolution; in Latin America it more especially followed independence movements of the 1810s and 20s. The book looks at how a variety of political actors and commentators used the term to characterize or argue about modern conditions through the ensuing half-century; by 1870, it was firmly established in mainstream political lexicons throughout the region. Following introductory scene-setting and overview chapters, specialists contribute wide-ranging accounts of aspects of the context in which the word was "re-imagined"; six final chapters explore differences in its fortune from place to place"--

Author: Jose Carlos Chiaramonte
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351503804
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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No one in Latin American historiography has paid more attention to questions related to the emergence of nations than Jose Carlos Chiaramonte. Reflecting on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century uses of the concept of nation in Europe and the Americas, Chiaramonte argues that historical questions related to the term "nation" derive from its changing meaning in different contexts. The historian would be better advised to focus on the development of forms of state organization, and the emergence of national states, rather than the "nation" as a cultural community prior to independence.Nation and State in Latin America begins by examining the effects on historians of the ideological and methodological prejudice spread by contemporary nationalism on the historical studies of Latin America. Chiaramonte analyzes uses of concepts such as "nation" and "state" in both Europe and the Americas. Chiaramonte considers the prominence of sovereign "pueblos" (cities and townships) and their role during independence. He argues the non-existence of nationalities in the period and proves that feelings of collective identity at that time amounted mainly to local affections.He concludes with an analysis of major trends in federalism and the law of nature and nations, crucial to understanding the political concepts of the age of birth of modern Latin American nations. This book covers the whole of Latin America, making use of comparative viewpoints. The different national intonations of the concept of sovereignty and the nuances of the federal and confederate forms of the state are examined in detail.

Author: Antoni Abat i Ninet
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 074867537X
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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Western political systems tend to be 'constitutional democracies', dividing the system into a domain of politics, where the people rule, and a domain of law, set aside for a trained elite. Antoni Abat i Ninet strives to resolve these apparently exclusive

Author: Joshua Simon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107158478
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287

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This book explores the surprising similarities in the political ideas of the American and Latin American independence movements.

Author: Varios Autores
Publisher: Linkgua
ISBN: 849953550X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 27

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La Constitución Imperial de Haití se promulgó en 1805. En 1804 Jean-Jacques Dessalines se había designado a sí mismo emperador de Haití con el nombre de Jacques I. El texto de la Constitución Imperial de Haití fue el resultado de la guerra librada por los esclavos de Haití en nombre de la libertad, y empieza como sigue proclamando la Constitución de un nuevo Imperio, el de Haití.

Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 544

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