This book covers the years from the breakdown of the Spanish Empire in America to the stabilisation of the new republic of Chile. It is a survey of the political ideas and the interplay of ideas and political action during the independence period. Whilst examining the influences making for change in late colonial Chile and the implications of political experiment and instability, much of the text is devoted to a description of the common ideology of the revolution. The author considers that the political theory was based on the notions of the social contract, the sovereignty of the people, representative government, the division of powers and a system of natural rights. It was derived from the liberal thought of the enlightenment and from the doctrines of the North American and French revolutions. But it was a complex of vaguer emotions and attitudes such as utopianism, anti-Spanish feeling, the 'black legend', an incipient nationalism and the idealisation of the Araucanian Indian which gave the revolution its mystique.
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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13
9780521101691
eBay Product ID (ePID)
94443025
Product Key Features
Author
Simon Collier
Publication Name
Ideas and Politics of Chilean Independence 1808-1833
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2008
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
416 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
216mm
Item Width
140mm
Item Weight
530g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Simon Collier
Series Title
Cambridge Latin American Studies
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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