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Républiques en armes : les armées de Bolívar dans les guerres d'indépendance du Venezuela et de la Colombie
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ISBN: 2753502218 2753532311 Year: 2006 Publisher: Presses universitaires de Rennes

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Républiques en armes questionne un récit officiel, celui de la naissance des nations hispano-américaines. Car les républiques de Colombie et du Venezuela ne procèdent ni d’un protonationalisme ancien, ni d’une rivalité entre « Créoles » d’Amérique et « Espagnols » européens. Il est, à l’origine, la conséquence de l’effondrement inattendu de la Monarchie hispanique après l’invasion de la péninsule Ibérique par Napoléon en 1808. Nourri par des recherches dans les archives colombiennes, espagnoles et vénézuéliennes et à travers l’étude prosopographique de plus de 3 800 soldats, l’ouvrage décrit les changements sociopolitiques de l’institution militaire. Les milices inexpertes de 1810 cèdent la place aux guérillas puis à la grande armée libératrice – l’Ejército Libertador de Simón Bolívar. Victorieuses à Boyacá, Carabobo, Pichincha, Junín et Ayacucho, les légions bolivariennes arrachèrent les indépendances du Venezuela, de la Colombie, du Panama, de l’Equateur, du Pérou et de la Bolivie actuels. Dans la construction des nations, les troupes patriotes devinrent les piliers du projet révolutionnaire des élites libérales. Vecteurs des valeurs politiques modernes, les forces armées en vinrent à constituer la matrice d’un Peuple « régénéré ». Elles servirent alors de base symbolique, politique et sociale à la souveraineté des nouveaux états indépendants. Républiques en armes aborde les origines d’une histoire dramatiquement ouverte et propose une réflexion sur l’origine des systèmes politiques et des identités nationales du Venezuela et de la Colombie.


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Simón Bolívar : Travels and Transformations of a Cultural Icon
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ISBN: 9780813055978 0813055970 9780813051734 0813051738 9780813062624 0813062624 Year: 2016 Publisher: Gainesville, Florida : University Press of Florida,

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This title shows us how and why Simón Bolívar is still a major icon in Latin American culture. Cinema, politics, painting, literature, religion, and opera are all touched and marked by 'El Libertador' who is still very much an active force in Latin America. In this volume, an array of international and interdisciplinary scholars shows the ways Bolívar has appeared over the last two centuries in painting, fiction, poetry, music, film, festival, dance, city planning, and even reliquary adoration.

Simón Bolívar's quest for glory
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ISBN: 1585448893 9781585448890 1299053718 9781299053717 9781585442393 1585442399 9781603447294 1603447296 Year: 2003 Publisher: College Station [Texas] : Texas A&M University Press,

Simón Bolívar : a life
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ISBN: 1281735159 9786611735159 0300137702 9780300137705 9781281735157 0300110626 9780300110623 9780300126044 Year: 2006 Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press,

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Simón Bolívar was a revolutionary who freed six countries, an intellectual who argued the principles of national liberation, and a general who fought a cruel colonial war. His life, passions, battles, and great victories became embedded in Spanish American culture almost as soon as they happened. This is the first major English-language biography of "The Liberator" in half a century. John Lynch draws on extensive research on the man and his era to tell Bolívar's story, to understand his life in the context of his own society and times, and to explore his remarkable and enduring legacy.The book illuminates the inner world of Bolívar, the dynamics of his leadership, his power to command, and his modes of ruling the diverse peoples of Spanish America. The key to his greatness, Lynch concludes, was supreme will power and an ability to inspire people to follow him beyond their immediate interests, in some cases through years of unremitting struggle. Encompassing Bolívar's entire life and his many accomplishments, this is the definitive account of a towering figure in the history of the Western hemisphere.


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Chavez's children : ideology, education, and society in Latin America
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ISBN: 9780739179888 0739179888 9781299146532 1299146538 9780739165256 0739165259 Year: 2013 Publisher: Lanham [Md.] : Lexington Books,

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The aim of this book is to reconstruct and understand the revolutionary Bolivarian ideology in Chavez's movement through a historical analysis of its ideological principles and revolutionary scholastic institutions. Differing from many journalistic publications about Chavez, this book uncovers the deep social dynamics of Venezuelan politics using a strict empirical analysis. This book presents an original model for researching the ideologies behind Latin American political movements.


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For glory and Bolívar : the remarkable life of Manuela Sáenz, 1797-1856
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ISBN: 0292793944 0292718292 029272151X Year: 2008 Publisher: Austin : University of Texas Press,

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She was a friend, lover, and confidante of charismatic Spanish American independence hero Simón Bolívar and, after her death, a nationalist icon in her own right. Yet authors generally have chosen either to romanticize Manuela Sáenz or to discount her altogether. For Glory and Bolivar: The Remarkable of Life of Manuela Sáenz, by contrast, offers a comprehensive and clear-eyed biography of her. Based on unprecedented archival research, it paints a vivid portrait of the Quito-born "Libertadora," revealing both an exceptional figure and a flesh-and-blood person whose life broadly reflected the experiences of women during Spanish America's turbulent Age of Revolution. Already married at the time of her meeting with the famous Liberator, Sáenz abandoned her husband in order to become not only Bolívar's romantic companion, but also his official archivist, a member of his inner circle, and one of his most loyal followers. She played a central role in Spanish South America's independence drama and eventually in developments leading to the consolidation of new nations. Pamela Murray, for the first time, closely examines Sáenz's political trajectory including her vital, often-overlooked years in exile. She exposes the myths that still surround her. She offers, in short, a nuanced and much-needed historical perspective, one that balances recognition of Sáenz's uniqueness with awareness of the broader forces that shaped this dynamic nineteenth-century woman.

Quito y la crisis de la alcabala 1580-1600
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ISBN: 997884029X 2821844883 Year: 1997 Publisher: Institut français d’études andines

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Quinto y la crisis de la alcabala (1580-1600) intenta comprender la lógica del desarrolló de este capítulo que la historiografía ecuatoriana juzga a menudo decisivo para el devenir nacional, pero que no ha sido jamás objeto de un estudio preciso. A pesar de la enorme cantidad de documentos de origen diverso que existen sobre el tema, nada nuevo se había hecho desde González Suárez y su célebre Historia General de la República del Ecuador. Bernard Lavallé reconstruve el juego complejo de los diversos elementos de una coyuntura que, en el marco del virreinato de Lima en una época bisagra de su evolución, se presenta, a partir de 1580, con cierto número de especificidades y caracteres más marcados en la región de Quito que en otras. Asi, su ínteres estriba en la posibilidad que ofrece la crisis de captar a los protagonistas en su comportamiento real, individual y colectivo; y en la comprensión de la lógica profunda de las diversas reacciones en esos:momentos claves de la vida en los que, presionadas por la prisa y la pasión, las acciones dicon más que los discursos y sobre todo con menos disimulo.

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