Colombia's Military and Brazil's Monarchy - Undermining the Republican Foundations of South American Independence

This important new study relates the origin of the decline of republican politics in South America to the existence of monarchic rule in Brazil.

List of contents

Preface
Monarchic Factors in the South American Independence Movements
Colombian Power and Republican Politics: Sucre and Bolívar
The Status of Relations between the Monarchy and the Republics
A New Factor in the Equation: Sucre's Policy in Upper Peru (Bolivia)
Rise and Fall of the Republican Challenge to the Monarchy
The Monarchy Secure: Dawning of South America's Power Politics

About the author

Thomas Millington

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Millington, Millington Thomas
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.08.1996
• EAN: 9780313298066
• ISBN: 978-0-313-29806-6
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, REFERENCE / Genealogy & Heraldry, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Political structure & processes, Political structure and processes, Genealogy, heraldry, names & honours, Genealogy, heraldry, names and honours, Politics, Law, and Government: Comparative Politics