| Ideas and Politics of Chilean Independence 1808-1833 Contributor(s): Collier, Simon (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521101697 ISBN-13: 9780521101691 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $45.59 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2008 Annotation: This book covers the years from the breakdown of the Spanish Empire in America to the stabilisation of the new republic of Chile. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Latin America - South America |
| Dewey: 983 |
| Series: Cambridge Latin American Studies (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.93" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.16 lbs) 416 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book covers the years from the breakdown of the Spanish Empire in America to the stabilisation of the new republic of Chile. It is a survey of the political ideas and the interplay of ideas and political action during the independence period. Whilst examining the influences making for change in late colonial Chile and the implications of political experiment and instability, much of the text is devoted to a description of the common ideology of the revolution. The author considers that the political theory was based on the notions of the social contract, the sovereignty of the people, representative government, the division of powers and a system of natural rights. It was derived from the liberal thought of the enlightenment and from the doctrines of the North American and French revolutions. But it was a complex of vaguer emotions and attitudes such as utopianism, anti-Spanish feeling, the 'black legend', an incipient nationalism and the idealisation of the Araucanian Indian which gave the revolution its mystique. |