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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777453603321

Titolo

El Libertador : writings of Simón Bolívar / / translated from the Spanish by Frederick H. Fornoff ; edited with an introduction and notes by David Bushnell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2003

©2003

ISBN

1-280-53169-X

0-19-803307-9

0-19-518402-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Collana

Library of Latin America

Disciplina

980/.02/092

Soggetti

South America History Wars of Independence, 1806-1830 Sources

Latin America History Wars of Independence, 1806-1830 Sources

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; SERIES EDITORS' GENERAL INTRODUCTION; CHRONOLOGY OF SIMÓN BOLÍVAR; AN OVERVIEW OF THE BOLIVARIAN SOURCES; TRANSLATOR'S NOTE; INTRODUCTION; I: THE MAJOR POLITICAL STATEMENTS; The Cartagena Manifesto: Memorial Addressed to the Citizens of New Granada by a Citizen from Caracas (15 December 1812); The Jamaica Letter: Response from a South American to a Gentleman from This Island (6 September 1815); The Angostura Address (15 February 1819); The Bolivian Constitution (1826); Message to the Convention of Ocaña (29 February 1828); A Glance at Spanish America (1829)

Address to the ""Congreso Admirable"": Message to the Constituent Congress of the Republic of Colombia (20 January 1830)II: LESSER BOLIVARIAN TEXTS; 1. Political and Military; 2. International Affairs; 3. Social and Economic Affairs; 4. Education and Culture; NOTES; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

Sommario/riassunto

General Simon Bolivar (1783-1830), called El Liberator, and sometimes the ""George Washington"" of Latin America, was the leading hero of the Latin American independence movement. His victories over Spain won



independence for Bolivia, Panama, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. Bolivar became Columbia's first president in 1819. In 1822, he became dictator of Peru. Upper Peru became a separate state, which was named Bolivia in Bolivar's honor, in 1825. The constitution, which he drew up for Bolivia, is one of his most important political pronouncements. Today he is remembered throughout Sou