Simón Bolívar : essays on the life and legacy of the liberator
This volume of essays on the life and legacy of Simón Bolívar looks at the impact of "the Liberator" as warrior, political thinker and leader, internationalist, continentalist, reformer, and revolutionary. An appraisal of Bolívar's role in the Spanish American wars of independence, this offers an explanation of why the Bolívarian legend and cult has persisted
Print Book, English, ©2008
Rowman & Littlefield Pub., Lanham, Md., ©2008
Congresses
xv, 207 pages . : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780742556195, 0742556190
180907774
Simón Bolívar as political thinker / Simon Collier
Bolívar 's Atlantic world diplomacy / Judith Ewell
Simón Bolívar, Englishman: elite responsibility and social reform in Spanish American independence / Karen Racine
Simón Bolívar and Andrés Bello: the republican ideal / Iván Jaksic
Bolívar as triumphal state maker and despairing "democrat" / Frank Safford
The image of Simón Bolívar in the United States in the revolutionary era / Lester D. Langley
The United States as seen by Simón Bolívar : too good a neighbor / David Bushnell
Bolívar and the future of democracy / Hermes Tovar Pinzón
The hidden legacy of Simón Bolívar / Germán Carrera Damas
Epilogue: history and our heroes: the Bolívar legend / John Lombardi
Beginning to read about Bolívar / John Lombardi
Essays primarily from a symposium held at the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University on March 13, 2000 entitled Perspectives on Simón Bolívar