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Modernity and Independence: Essays on the Hispanic Revolutions

by François-Xavier Guerra , Geneviève Verdo , Patricia Simonson
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781951634629
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Lasa Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Lasa Press
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  • Pages: 462
  • Original Price: GBP 22.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 613 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Latin America / South America

Widely regarded as the definitive turning point in nineteenth-century Latin American studies, the publication of Fran�ois-Xavier Guerra's Modernidad e independencias marked a "before and after" in Spanish American historiography. Through ten masterful essays, Guerra provides a comprehensive reinterpretation of the revolutions that swept Spanish America between 1808 and 1825. Rather than merely offering a historical account, this work lays the foundations for a new paradigm to understand the seismic political and cultural shifts brought about by the advent of modernity.

The book's central thesis focuses on the radical transformation of social and political imaginaries triggered by the Napoleonic invasion of Spain in 1808. By treating the revolutions as a complex and multidimensional phenomenon within a shared Euro-American cultural space, Guerra explores the tension between "tradition" and "modernity," rethinking how individualism, sociability, and the public sphere redefined the Spanish American world.

By raising questions that have inspired a generation of scholars to explore the complexities of the Hispanic Atlantic, Guerra's work remains an indispensable cornerstone for any study of the social and political history of the nineteenth century. It is not simply a book about the past; it is the framework through which the modern Hispanic world is understood.

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