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5 days ago · History of Latin America - Independence, Revolutions, Nations: After three centuries of colonial rule, independence came rather suddenly to most of Spanish and Portuguese America. Between 1808 and 1826 all of Latin America except the Spanish colonies of Cuba and Puerto Rico slipped out of the hands of the Iberian powers who had ruled the region ...
Nov 21, 2012 · Historian of US foreign policy in Latin America draws connections among the American Revolution, the Haitian Revolution, and the Spanish American independence movements.
5 days ago · Particularly in the 1825–50 period, Latin America experienced a high degree of political instability. National governments changed hands rapidly in most areas, which only prolonged the weakness and ineffectiveness of the emerging political systems.
One widely expressed view is that nationalism in the region was mainly civic before the late nineteenth century and mainly ethnic thereafter. Or, to put it another way, Latin American countries engaged first in state-building and then moved on to nation-building.
Jul 9, 2019 · It explains the role and influence of Enlightenment ideas, economic and social liberalism, industrialisation and caudillos, and emphasises the diversity of Latin American independentist experience, from the Haitian Revolution to the ‘bloodless’ independence of Brazil.
- Sarah L Wood
- 2019
Thinkers such as Herder, Fichte and the roman- tics laid the philosophic foundations for a nationalism which asserted that the individual was shaped, if not determined, by membership of a social group and that the primary social group was not the family, the city, or the church, but the nation.
5 days ago · But in Latin America as a whole more people were becoming linked to the national and world economies, introduced to rudimentary public education, and exposed to emerging mass media.
