The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Independence

Innovatively revisits Latin American independence and its significance for the Age of Atlantic Revolutions.

Marcela Echeverri (Edited by), Cristina Soriano (Edited by)

9781108492270, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 23 March 2023

438 pages
23.4 x 15.5 x 2.1 cm, 0.69 kg

'Illuminating various new perspectives on a complex political-cultural panorama, this book will be an essential reference for the study of Latin American independence.' Kristen Schulz, Hispanic American Historical Review

Bringing together experts across Latin America, North America, and Spain, The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Independence innovatively revisits Latin American independence within a larger regional, temporal, and thematic framework to highlight its significance for the Age of Atlantic Revolutions. The volume offers a synthetic yet comprehensive tool for understanding and assessing the most current studies in the field and their analytical contributions to the broader historiography. Organized thematically and across different regions of the Iberian Peninsula and Spanish and Luso America, the essays deepen well-known conclusions and reveal new interpretations. They offer analytical interventions that produce new questions on periodization, the meaning of anti-colonialism, liberalism, and republicanism, as well as the militarization of societies, public opinion, the role of sciences, labor regimes, and gender dynamics. A much-needed addition to the existing scholarship, this volume brings a transnational perspective to a critical period of history in Latin America.

Introduction: Rethinking Latin American independence in the twenty-first century Marcela Echeverri and Cristina Soriano
1. On the origins of Latin American independence: A reappraisal of colonial crisis, popular politics and Atlantic revolution in the eighteenth century Sinclair Thomson
2. Constitutionalism and representation in Ibero-America during the independence processes Marcela Ternavasio
3. Foreign interaction and the independence of Latin America: Local dynamics, Atlantic processes Ernesto Bassi and Fabrício Prado
4. Public opinion and militarization during the wars of independence Alejandro M Rabinovich and Cristina Soriano
5. Natural histories of remembrance and forgetting: Science and independence in the Spanish and Portuguese Americas Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra and Neil Safier
6. Brothers in arms: Freemasonry in Latin American independence Karen Racine
7. Beyond heroes and heroines: Gendering Latin American independence Sarah C Chambers
8. Views on the Latin American independences from the Iberian Peninsula Álvaro Caso Bello and Gabriel Paquette
 9. Shades of unfreedom: Labor regimes in Latin America in the nineteenth century Marcela Echeverri and Roquinaldo Ferreira
10. Early liberalism: Emancipation and its limits José M Portillo
 Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions [HBTV], Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 [HBLL], History of the Americas [HBJK]