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Carte Simon Bolivar Lester D. Langley

Simon Bolivar

Venezuelan Rebel, American Revolutionary

Autor: Lester D. Langley
Limbă: engleză
Legare: Copertă tare
Editura: Rowman & Littlefield
Disponibilitate: șansă 50%
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298.12 lei
This compelling biography offers a unique perspective on the life and career of one of Latin America...

Informații despre carte

Autor
Lester D. Langley
Limbă
engleză
Legare
Carte - Copertă tare
Publicat
2009
Pagini
168
EAN
9780742537521
ISBN
0742537528
Enbook ID
04670273
Editura
Rowman & Littlefield
Greutate
392
Dimensiuni
174 x 235 x 17

Descriere completă

This compelling biography offers a unique perspective on the life and career of one of Latin America's most famous-and most adulated-historical figures. Departing from the conventional, narrow treatment of Bolivar's role in the Spanish-American wars of independence (1810-1825), leading historian Lester D. Langley frames this remarkable figure as the quintessential Venezuelan rebel, who by circumstance and sheer will rose to be the continent's most noted revolutionary and liberator. In the process, he became both a unifying and a divisive presence whose symbolic influence remains powerful even today. Twice Bolivar gained power, twice he confronted a formidable counterrevolution, twice he was compelled to flee. His ultimate tactic of using slave and mixed-race troops aroused both the admiration and fear of U.S. leaders and became a topic of heated discussion in the critical debates of 1817 and 1818 over U.S. policy toward the Spanish-American wars as well as the arguments over the admission of Missouri as a state in 1820-1821 and the U.S. decision to participate in the ill-fated Congress of Panama. Although he earned the sobriquet of the "George Washington" of South America, Bolivar in victory became more conservative and critical of the democratic tide of the era. Unlike Washington, Bolivar was forced into exile, the victim of his own ambitions and the fears of others. In his tragic end, he symbolized the glorious warrior so consumed by his own ambition and hatreds that he was destroyed. In death, he became a cult figure whose life and meaning casts a long shadow over modern Venezuelan history. As the author convincingly explains, he remains the most relevant figure of the revolutionary age in the Americas.

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