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Latin America Between Colony and Nation

Selected Essays

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  • © 2001

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Authors:
  1. John Lynch

    1. University of London, UK

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Part of the book series: Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Passage to America

    • John Lynch
    Pages 1-13

  3. Arms and Men in the Spanish Conquest of America

    • John Lynch
    Pages 14-44

  4. The Colonial State in Spanish America

    • John Lynch
    Pages 45-57

  5. Spanish America’s Poor Whites: Canarian Immigrants in Venezuela, 1700–1830

    • John Lynch
    Pages 58-73

  6. The Colonial Roots of Latin American Independence

    • John Lynch
    Pages 74-108

  7. Revolution as a Sin: the Church and Spanish American Independence

    • John Lynch
    Pages 109-133

  8. Simón Bolívar and the Age of Revolution

    • John Lynch
    Pages 134-162

  9. Bolívar and the Caudillos

    • John Lynch
    Pages 163-193

  10. The Quest for the Millennium in Latin America: Popular Religion and Beyond

    • John Lynch
    Pages 194-222

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 223-256
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About this book

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.

Reviews

'...one of the best Latin American history primers...a most enjoyable experience for the dedicated Latin Americanist and a fine piece of scholarship.' - History: Reviews of New Books

'...a useful volume for anyone looking for syntheses of large issues of colonial Latin America and its trials...' - Jeremy Adelman, The Historian

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of London, UK

    John Lynch

About the author

John Lynch is Emeritus Professor of Latin American History in the University of London. He is the author of numerous works on Spain and Latin America, including The Hispanic World in Crisis and Change 1598-1700, Bourbon Spain, 1700-1808, The Spanish American Revolutions 1808-1826, Argentine Dictator: Juan Manuel de Rosas 1829-1852, Caudillos in Spanish America 1800-1850.

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