{"product_id":"the-cambridge-companion-to-latin-american-independence-9781108729185","title":"The Cambridge Companion to Latin American","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis innovative and comprehensive volume offers a new framework to analyze Latin American independence, bringing together the most current scholarship and situating it within the broader historiography. A much-needed addition in this field, the volume will interest scholars of Latin American Studies and the Age of Atlantic Revolutions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A truly essential companion, this book permeates the mutual isolation between Luso-Brazilian and Spanish-American historiography, reconnects the crisis of 1808 with the processes of the 18th century, and illuminates intellectual, political, military, commercial, and labor relations that intertwined local dynamics with global trends, actors of both genders and varied fields, and narratives of past and future.' Margarita Garrido, author of Reclamos y representaciones: variaciones sobre la poliìtica en el Nuevo Reino de Granada, 1770–1815\u003cbr\u003e'The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Independence is a wide-ranging and innovative set of essays written by excellent historians. These essays both synthesize the most recent scholarship on the period and launch incisive new questions on many topics.' Peter Francis Guardino, author of The Time of Liberty: Popular Political Culture in Oaxaca, 1750–1850\u003cbr\u003e'This is a refreshing and energizing companion to the study of Latin American independence. By challenging inherited approaches, raising new questions and making connections and comparisons across both time and space, its authors provide fresh perspectives on key questions and offer an indispensable point of departure for future debate on the origins, character and meaning of the transition from colonial rule. Highly recommended.' Anthony McFarlane, author of War and Independence in Spanish America\u003cbr\u003e'This timely volume offers new insights into the history of Latin American independence, a vigorous field of study that has recently experienced path-breaking innovations in perspectives and interpretations. The editors have pulled together a prominent group of international scholars who tread new historiographical grounds on different aspects of that multidimensional historical process.' Hilda Sabato, author of Republics of the New World: The Revolutionary Political Experiment in Nineteenth-Century Latin America\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: 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.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019415093591,"sku":"9781108729185","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781108729185.jpg?v=1750780205","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-cambridge-companion-to-latin-american-independence-9781108729185","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}