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Americanos: Latin America's Struggle for Independence
A premier volume in Oxford's Pivotal Moments in World History series, Americanos offers an engagingly written, compact history of the Latin American wars of independence. Proceeding almost cinematically, scene by vivid scene, John Charles Chasteen introduces the reader to lead players, basic concepts, key events, and dominant trends, braided together in a single, taut narr...more
Paperback, 240 pages
Published
August 6th 2009
by Oxford University Press, USA
(first published January 28th 2007)
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Americanos by John Chasteen provides a great overview of the independence movement across Latin America and the major trends that emerged from it. As one of the kick off books to the Pivotal Moments in World History series which seeks to understand the major paradigm shifts that changed the course of world history this book earns its place. From the global political context with looking at the rise of Napoleon and the changing effect of European focus to the mixed populations that were beginning...more
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Unlike the democracies of the United States and Western Europe, the budding nations had little to no experience in self government. Until the European political whirlwind of Napoleon Bonaparte scattered the monarchies of the Iberian peninsula; the Americanos of Latin America were content to be loyal subjects to their respected majesties of Portugal and Spain. But, by this unthroning, the Americano colonists were forced into the turblant waves of political uncertainty. The strange thing about...more
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Do not judge this book by the overly academic prologue. It actually gets off to a great start, with an account of Humboldt's adventures in the Americas. And a great job of setting up the cause of these simultaneous revolutions. But the format of telling it chronologically, and in multiple locations, just wore me out. Here we have Hidalgo's and Morelos's battles in Mexico! Meanwhile, Bolivar is in Venezuela! Oh, and over in Buenos Aires... I wanted to love it, but after two-thirds I couldn't go f...more
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The book provides a good overview of the Revolutionary Era in Latin America and is reliable base for investigating the various struggles for independence in further detail. However, Chasteen could have better organized the book to make it more comprehensible, but overall he gave a good treatment of a very complex topic that has on-going implications.
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