The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Independence

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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"-- Front Matter Introduction. Rethinking Latin American Independence in the Twenty-First Century 1. On the Origins of Latin American Independence: A Reappraisal of Colonial Crisis, Popular Politics, and Atlantic Revolution in the Eighteenth Century 2. Constitutionalism and Representation in Ibero-America during the Independence Processes 3. Foreign Interaction and the Independence of Latin America. Local Dynamics, Atlantic Processes 4. Public Opinion and Militarization during the Wars of Independence 5. Natural Histories of Remembrance and Forgetting. Science and Independence in the Spanish and Portuguese Americas 6. Brothers in Arms. Freemasonry in Latin American Independence 7. Beyond Heroes and Heroines. Gendering Latin American Independence 8. Views of the Latin American Independences from the Iberian Peninsula 9. Shades of Unfreedom. Labor Regimes in Latin America in the Nineteenth Century 10. Early Liberalism. Emancipation and Its Limits Bibliography Index