Latin America Between Colony and Nation: Selected Essays

by John Lynch

Book Overview

This book focuses on a key period in Latin American history, the transition from colonial status, via the revolutions for independence, to national organization. The essays provide in-depth studies of eighteenth-century society, the colonial state, and the roots of independence in Spanish America. The relation of Spanish America to the age of democratic revolution and the reaction of the Church to revolutionary change are newly defined, and leadership...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349418560
• ISBN13: 9781349418565
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 8.0"