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"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"--
List of contents
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.
About the author
Marcela Echeverri is Associate Professor of History at Yale University. Her book Indian and Slave Royalists in the Age of Revolution: Reform, Revolution, and Royalism in the Northern Andes, 1780–1825, won the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Michael Jiménez Prize.Cristina Soriano is Associate Professor of History at The University of Texas at Austin. Her book Information, Insurgencies, and the Crisis of Colonial Rule in Venezuela won the 2019 Bolton-Johnson Award from The Conference on Latin American History (CLAH).
