Format:
Online-Ressource (377 p)
ISBN:
9780300110623
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Maps -- 1. Out of A Spanish Colony -- Venezuelan Homeland -- Family, Friends and Neighbours -- A Youth of Independent Means -- Old Spain, Young Love -- 2. Lessons From the Age of Reason -- Life in Paris -- Political Awakening -- A Spanish American in the Age of Revolution -- Bolivar and the Enlightment -- Return to Venezuela -- 3. Creole Revolution -- Grievances of a Colony -- 1808, the Critical Year -- The London Mission -- Independence, Declared and Destroyed -- War with Spain and with Nature -- The Defeat of the First Republic -- 4. War to the Death -- The Cartagena Manifesto -- The Western Front -- War by Terror -- The Liberator -- Counter-Revolution -- Exit and Exile -- 5. Touchstone of the Revolution -- The Jamaica Letter -- The Caudillos -- Confrontation with Piar -- The Tactics of Race -- An Army for Liberation -- Paez and the "Llameros" A New Challenge -- 6. New Strategy, New Front -- The Angostura Address -- Reinforcements and Reappraisal -- A Second Front -- Boyaca -- Tensions after Triumph -- Carabobo -- 7. Society According to Bolivar -- Rousseau in Retreat -- Continuity and Change -- Bolivarian Society -- Citizen Soldiers -- The Bolivarian Economy -- 8. War and Love in the Andes -- Mountain Barriers -- Conference in Guayaquil -- Defence of the Revolution -- Manuela Saenz -- Into Peru -- Junin and Ayacucho -- 9. The Man of Problems -- Across the "Desaguadero -- The Bolivarian Enlightment -- The Lost Purity of his Principles -- An Ever Greater America -- A Deal with the Devil -- 10. The Magic of His Prestige -- Adios Venezuela -- Quest for Strong Government -- The Road to Ocana and Power -- The Assassins -- Foundations of the Faith -- The Limits of Revolution -- 11. Journey of Disillusion -- Rebels and Invaders -- Sombre Throughts from Guayaquil.
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""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Preface""; ""Maps""; ""1. Out of A Spanish Colony""; ""Venezuelan Homeland""; ""Family, Friends and Neighbours""; ""A Youth of Independent Means""; ""Old Spain, Young Love""; ""2. Lessons From the Age of Reason""; ""Life in Paris""; ""Political Awakening""; ""A Spanish American in the Age of Revolution""; ""Bolivar and the Enlightment""; ""Return to Venezuela""; ""3. Creole Revolution""; ""Grievances of a Colony""; ""1808, the Critical Year""; ""The London Mission""; ""Independence, Declared and Destroyed""; ""War with Spain and with Nature""
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""The Defeat of the First Republic""""4. War to the Death""; ""The Cartagena Manifesto""; ""The Western Front""; ""War by Terror""; ""The Liberator""; ""Counter-Revolution""; ""Exit and Exile""; ""5. Touchstone of the Revolution""; ""The Jamaica Letter""; ""The Caudillos""; ""Confrontation with Piar""; ""The Tactics of Race""; ""An Army for Liberation""; ""Paez and the ""Llameros"" A New Challenge""; ""6. New Strategy, New Front""; ""The Angostura Address""; ""Reinforcements and Reappraisal""; ""A Second Front""; ""Boyaca""; ""Tensions after Triumph""; ""Carabobo""
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""7. Society According to Bolivar""""Rousseau in Retreat""; ""Continuity and Change""; ""Bolivarian Society""; ""Citizen Soldiers""; ""The Bolivarian Economy""; ""8. War and Love in the Andes""; ""Mountain Barriers""; ""Conference in Guayaquil""; ""Defence of the Revolution""; ""Manuela Saenz""; ""Into Peru""; ""Junin and Ayacucho""; ""9. The Man of Problems""; ""Across the ""Desaguadero""""; ""The Bolivarian Enlightment""; ""The Lost Purity of his Principles""; ""An Ever Greater America""; ""A Deal with the Devil""; ""10. The Magic of His Prestige""; ""Adios Venezuela""
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""Quest for Strong Government""""The Road to Ocana and Power""; ""The Assassins""; ""Foundations of the Faith""; ""The Limits of Revolution""; ""11. Journey of Disillusion""; ""Rebels and Invaders""; ""Sombre Throughts from Guayaquil""; ""Monarchist Friends, Republican Enemies""; ""The Exodus""; ""Farewell to Power, Salute to Glory""; ""Journey's End""; ""12. The Legacy""; ""Man and Myth""; ""Ideas and Ideals""; ""The Realist of the Revolution""; ""Paths of Glory""; ""Dynamics of Leadership""; ""The Cult of Bolivar""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Glossary""; ""Index""
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780300137705
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780300110623
Additional Edition:
Print version Simon Bolivar : A Life
Language:
English
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