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The Enigma of Latin American Independence: Analyses of the Last Ten Years

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2022

Victor M. Uribe
Victor M. Uribe*
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Latin American Research Review , Volume 32 , Issue 1 , 1997 , pp. 236 - 255
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Notes

1. See Richard Graham, Independence in Latin America: A Comparative Approach (New York: Knopf, 1972); John Lynch, The Spanish American Revolutions, 1808–1826 (New York: Norton, 1973); and Jay Kinsbruner, The Spanish American Independence Movement (New York: Dryden, 1973).

2. See A. J. R. Russell-Wood, From Colony to Nation: Essays on the Independence of Brazil (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975); Tulio Halperin Donghi, Politics, Economics, and Society in Argentina in the Revolutionary Period (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975); Dos revoluciones: México y los Estados Unidos, edited by Hugh Hamill, Jr. (Mexico City: Jus, 1976); Brian Hamnett, Revolución y contrarevolución en Mexico y el Perú: Liberalismo, realismo y separatismo (1800–1824) (Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1978); Timothy E. Anna, The Fall of Royal Government in Mexico City (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1978); and Anna, The Fall of Royal Government in Peru (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1979). See also Richard Alan White, Paraguay's Autonomous Revolution, 1810–1840 (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1978); and Miguel Izard, El miedo a la revolución: La lucha por la libertad en Venezuela (1777–1830) (Madrid: Tecnos, 1979).

3. Jorge I. Domínguez, Insurrection or Loyalty: The Breakdown of the Spanish American Empire (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980).

4. Timothy E. Anna, “Institutional and Political Impediments to Spain's Settlement of the American Rebellions,” The Americas 38, no. 4 (Apr. 1982):481–95; and Anna, Spain and the Loss of America (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1983). See also Brian Hamnett, La política española en una época revolucionaria, 1790–1820 (Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1985). Antecedents of these approaches can be found in Juan Friede, La otra verdad: La independencia americana vista por los españoles (Bogotá: Tercer Mundo, 1972).

5. George Reíd Andrews, “Spanish American Independence: A Structural Analysis,” Latin American Perspectives 12, no. 1 (Winter 1985):105–32; and Nicole Bousquet, “The Decolonization of Spanish America in the Early Nineteenth Century: A World Systems Approach,” Review 11, no. 4 (1988):497–531 (published by the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations). For a perspective that is global and attentive to material structures but also emphasizes individual actions and ideas, see Peggy K. Liss, Atlantic Empires: The Network of Trade and Revolution, 1713–1826 (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983).

6. See, for instance, Mario Aguilera and Renán Silva, Ideal democrático y revuelta popular: Bosquejo histórico de la mentalidad política popular en Colombia (Bogotá: Ismac, 1991); Margarita Garrido, Reclamos y representaciones: Variaciones sobre la política en el Nuevo Reino de Granada (Bogotá: Banco de la República, 1993); and Víctor Uribe, ‘“Kill All the Lawyers!‘: Lawyers and the Revolution for Independence in New Granada, 1810–1820s,” The Americas 52, no. 2 (Oct. 1995):175–210.

7. The same is true of the essays edited in 1981 by Heraclio Bonilla and Karen Spalding, published as La independencia en el Perú (Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 1981).

8. Brian Hamnett, Roots of Insurgency: Mexican Regions, 1750–1824 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986). It was reviewed in John K. Chance, “Recent Works on Colonial Mexico.” LARR 23, no. 3 (1988): 213–26.

9. For a clearer and more comprehensive volume touching on some of“ the same issues, see John Tutino, From Insurrection to Revolution: Social Bases of Agrarian Violence, 1750–1940 (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1986).

10. Eric Van Young has published a fair number of articles in English since the mid-1980s. Some of his most important articles and essays are “Conflict and Solidarity in Indian Village Life: The Guadalajara Region in the Late Colonial Period,” Hispanic American Historical Review 64, no. 1 (Feb. 1984):55–79; “Millennium on the Northern Marches: The Mad Messiah of Durango and Popular Rebellions in Mexico, 1800–1815,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 28, no. 22 (1986):385–413; “Island in the Storm: Quiet Cities and Violent Countrysides in the Mexican Independence Era,” Past and Present, no. 118 (Feb. 1988):130–55; “The Raw and the Cooked: Elite and Popular Ideology in Mexico, 1800–1821,” in The Middle Period in Latin America: Values and Attitudes in the 18th and 19th Centuries, edited by Mark D. Szuchman (Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner, 1989), 75–102; and “Agrarian Rebellion and Defense of Community: Meaning and Collective Violence in Late Colonial and Early Independence Mexico,” Journal of Social History 27, no. 2 (1993):245–69. See also Van Young, La crisis del orden colonial: Estructura agraria y rebeliones coloniales en la Nueva España (Mexico City: Alianza, 1992). A major monograph is Timothy E. Anna, The Mexican Empire of Iturbide (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1990). See also Repaso de la independencia, edited by Carlos Herrejón (Morelia: Colegio de Michoacán, 1985).

11. In addition to those cited in the previous note, see Eric Van Young, “The Messiah and the Masked Man: Popular Ideology in Mexico, 1810–1821,” in Indigenous Responses to Western Christianity, edited by Steven Kaplan (New York: New York University Press, 1995), 144–73.

12. See Hermes Tovar, “Guerras de opinión y represión en Colombia durante la independencia (1810–1820),” Anuario Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura 11 (1983):187–232. Guedea had already offered further information on revolutionary secret societies in En busca de un gobierno alterno: Los Guadalupes de México (Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1992).

13. Ernesto de la Torre, La independencia mexicana, 3 vols. (Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1982).

14. See also Berruezo's previous monograph, La participación americana en las Cortes de Cádiz, 1810–1814 (Madrid: Centro de Estudios Constitucionales, 1986).

15. See Coloque de Bordeaux, Les révolutions ibériques et ibéro-américaines à l'aube du XIXe siècle: Actes du Colloque de Bordeaux, 2–4 juillet 1989 (Paris: Centre National de la Récherche Scientifique, 1989); René Ortiz Caballero, Derecho y ruptura: A propósito del proceso emancipador en el Perú del ochocientos (Lima: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 1989); Noemi Goldman, Historia y lenguaje: Los discursos de la revolución de Mayo (Buenos Aires: Centro Editor de América Latina, 1992); José A. de la Puente Candamo, La independencia del Perú (Madrid: Mapfre, 1992); Luis Durand Flórez, El proceso de independencia en el sur andino: Cuzco y La Paz, 1805 (Lima: Universidad de Lima, 1993); and Roderick Cavaliero, The Independence of Brazil (New York: St. Martin's, 1994). A few other works worthy of attention include La Revolución Francesa y el mundo ibérico, edited by Robert M. Marquis et al. (Madrid: Turner, 1989); Guadalupe Jiménez Cordinach, La Gran Bretaña y la independencia de México (Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1991); Juan D. Balcacer, la independencia dominicana (Madrid: Mapfre, 1992); Jorge Siles Salinas, La independencia de Bolivia (Madrid: Mapfre, 1992); Luis Navarro García, La independencia de Cuba (Madrid: Mapfre, 1992); Alfredo Jocelyn-Holt, La independencia de Chile (Madrid: Mapfre, 1992); José A. de la Puente, La independencia del Perú (Madrid: Mapfre, 1992); Merle E. Simons, La Revolución Norteamericana y la independencia hispanoamericana (Madrid: Mapfre, 1992); and Alberto Solange et al., La Revolución Francesa en México (Mexico City: Colegio de México, 1992).