The Ideology of Creole Revolution: Imperialism and Independence in American and Latin American Political Thought (Problems of International Politics) - Softcover

Simon, Joshua

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1316610969 ISBN 13: 9781316610961

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2017

Synopsis

The American and Latin American independence movements emerged from distinctive settings and produced divergent results, but they were animated by similar ideas. Patriotic political theorists throughout the Americas offered analogous critiques of imperial rule, designed comparable constitutions, and expressed common ambitions for their new nations' future relations with one another and the rest of the world. This book adopts a hemispheric perspective on the revolutions that liberated the United States and Spanish America, offering a new interpretation of their most important political ideas. Simon argues that the many points of agreement among various revolutionary political theorists across the Americas can be attributed to the problems they encountered in common as Creoles - that is, as the descendants of European settlers born in the Americas. He illustrates this by comparing the political thought of three Creole revolutionaries: Alexander Hamilton of the United States, Simón Bolívar of Venezuela, and Lucas Alamán of Mexico.

About this title

Book Description:

This book offers a new, comparative account of the political ideas that arose in the American and Latin American independence movements, highlighting social parallels between their political thinkers. It will be read in advanced undergraduate and graduate courses on American political thought, comparative politics, and the ideology of imperialism.

About the Author:

Joshua Simon is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, New York. His research focuses on American and Latin constitutions, and approaches to foreign policy. He has also studied American and Latin American adaptations of European traditions of political thought, including republicanism, liberalism, positivism, and Marxism.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1316610969
• ISBN 13: 9781316610961
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 284