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The Traditions of Liberty in the Atlantic World : Origins, Ideas and Practices.

Colom González, Francisco.

The Traditions of Liberty in the Atlantic World : Origins, Ideas and Practices. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (218 pages) - The Atlantic World Series ; v.32 . - The Atlantic World Series .

Intro -- The Traditions of Liberty in the Atlantic World -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- PART 1: A Changing Colonial World -- 1: Brazil and the Languages of Modernity -- 2: Empire, Nation, and Republic in the Transformation of the Modern Hispanic World -- PART 2: Revolutions and Independence -- 3: Ibero-American Republican Humanism and the Intellectual Roots of Mexican Independence -- 4: Decorum and Liberty in the Spanish-American Revolutions of Independence -- 5: The American Independences and the Crisis of the Ancien Régime Republic: A Comparative View of the United States and Brazil -- PART 3: Varieties of Liberalism -- 6: The Tradition of Liberty in Canada at the End of the Eighteenth Century -- 7: The Portuguese Uprising of 1820: A Forgotten Atlantic Revolution -- 8: Liberal Ideas and Patrimonial Practices in Nineteenth-Century Spanish America -- Index.

This volume brings together notions of political liberty that arose in the English, Portuguese and Spanish Atlantic world, commencing with their inception in the colonial period, following with the independence of the Americas and the subsequent efforts to build constitutional order.

9789004299689


Liberty-Latin America-History.
Liberty-North America-History.
Latin America-History-Autonomy and independence movements.
North America-History-Autonomy and independence movements.


Electronic books.

JC599.L3 .T733 2016

320.011

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