Latin America Between Colony and Nation: Selected Essays (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780333786789)

This book focuses on a key period in Latin American history, the transition from colonial status, via the revolutions for independence, to national organization. The essays provide in-depth studies of eighteenth-century society, the colonial state, and the roots of independence in Spanish America. The relation of Spanish America to the age of democratic revolution and the reaction of the Church to revolutionary change are newly defined, and leadership of Simon Bolivar is subject to particular scrutiny. National organization saw the emergence of new political leaders, the caudillos, and the marginalization of many people who sought relief in popular religion and millenarian movements.

Author: J. Lynch
ISBN-10: 0333786785
ISBN-13: 9780333786789
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 03/13/2001
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.12lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.86w x 0.83d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2001 pg. 57