Independence and Nation-Building in Latin America

Independence and Nation-Building in Latin America: Race and Identity in the Crucible of War reconceptualizes the history of the break-up of colonial empires in Spanish and Portuguese America.

Autorentext

Scott Eastman, Professor of Transnational History at Creighton University, USA, most recently has written A Missionary Nation: Race, Religion, and Spain's Age of Liberal Imperialism, 18411881 (2021) and contributed articles to European History Quarterly and Historia y Política, among other journals. He has received major funding from LASA and the Fulbright Commission.

Natalia Sobrevilla Perea, Professor of Latin American History at the University of Kent, UK, has written The Caudillo of the Andes: Andrés de Santa Cruz (2011), in addition to several books in Spanish. She has published in European History Quarterly and The Americas and has been funded by grants and awards from the Leverhulme Trust, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, LASA, and the British Academy.

Inhalt

Introduction / 1. Colonialism, Enlightenment, and Reform / 2. Sovereignty and Insurgency in the Revolutionary Atlantic / 3. The 1814 Restoration / 4. Total War / 5. Loyalism, Monarchy and Constitutionalism in America / 6. Nations-in-the-Making: The Republican Tradition in Latin America / 7. Epilogue: Postcolonialism / Appendix: Primary Source Documents