The European Revolutions of 1848 and the Americas (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781900039437)

Very little has been written on the impact of the European revolutions of 1848 on the Americas. Nevertheless, their influence, particularly in the case of France, as palpable. The revolutions of 1848 renewed and extended democratic vocabulary and republican symbolism from Canada to Chile. This collection looks at the catalytic effect of Europe's 'springtime of the peoples' in the Americas, prompting the disenfranchised to demand representative institutions and to conceive of themselves as sovereign people, and giving rise to radical and progressive liberal parties - the Free Soil Movement/Free Democrats in the United States, the Reform Liberals in Mexico, the 'progresista' liberal parties in Colombia and Peru, the 'Society of Equality' and the Radical Party in Chile - that challenged the political groupings that had served since Independence.

Author: Guy Thomson
ISBN-10: 1900039435
ISBN-13: 9781900039437
Publisher: Institute of Latin American Studies
Language: English
Published: 01/10/2002
Pages: 162
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d