Simón Bolívar (Simon Bolivar): A LifeYale University Press, 01.01.2007 - 349 Seiten Simón Bolívar was a revolutionary who freed six countries, an intellectual who argued the principles of national liberation, and a general who fought a cruel colonial war. His life, passions, battles, and great victories became embedded in Spanish American culture almost as soon as they happened. This is the first major English-language biography of ?The Liberator” in half a century. John Lynch draws on extensive research on the man and his era to tell Bolívar's story, to understand his life in the context of his own society and times, and to explore his remarkable and enduring legacy. The book illuminates the inner world of Bolívar, the dynamics of his leadership, his power to command, and his modes of ruling the diverse peoples of Spanish America. The key to his greatness, Lynch concludes, was supreme will power and an ability to inspire people to follow him beyond their immediate interests, in some cases through years of unremitting struggle. Encompassing Bolívar's entire life and his many accomplishments, this is the definitive account of a towering figure in the history of the Western hemisphere. |
Inhalt
OUT OF A SPANISH COLONY | 1 |
Family Friends and Neighbours | 7 |
A Youth of Independent Means | 16 |
Old Spain Young Love | 18 |
LESSONS FROM THE AGE OF REASON | 22 |
Political Awakening | 24 |
A Spanish American in the Age of Revolution | 28 |
Bolivar and the Enlightenment | 31 |
Citizen Soldiers | 154 |
The Bolivarian Economy | 157 |
WAR AND LOVE IN THE ANDES | 165 |
Conference in Guayaquil | 169 |
Defence of the Revolution | 174 |
Manuela Sáenz | 174 |
Into Peru | 177 |
Junin and Ayacucho | 186 |
Return to Venezuela | 39 |
CREOLE REVOLUTION | 41 |
1808 the Critical Year | 44 |
The London Mission | 49 |
Independence Declared and Destroyed | 53 |
War with Spain and with Nature | 55 |
The Defeat of the First Republic | 61 |
WAR TO THE DEATH | 63 |
The Western Front | 66 |
War by Terror | 70 |
The Liberator | 73 |
CounterRevolution | 79 |
Exit and Exile | 86 |
TOUCHSTONE OF THE REVOLUTION | 89 |
The Caudillos | 96 |
Confrontation with Piar | 100 |
The Tactics of Race | 106 |
An Army for Liberation | 108 |
A New Challenge | 111 |
NEW STRATEGY NEW FRONT | 117 |
Reinforcements and Reappraisal | 120 |
A Second Front | 122 |
Boyacá | 127 |
Tensions after Triumph | 130 |
Carabobo | 137 |
SOCIETY ACCORDING TO BOLIVAR | 141 |
Continuity and Change | 144 |
Bolivarian Society | 149 |
THE MAN OF PROBLEMS | 191 |
The Bolivarian Enlightenment | 195 |
The Lost Purity of his Principles | 203 |
An Ever Greater America | 206 |
A Deal with the Devil | 211 |
THE MAGIC OF HIS PRESTIGE | 220 |
Quest for Strong Government | 224 |
The Road to Ocaña and Power | 226 |
The Assassins | 232 |
Foundations of the Faith | 234 |
JOURNEY OF DISILLUSION | 238 |
Sombre Thoughts from Guayaquil | 243 |
Monarchist Friends Republican Enemies | 246 |
The Exodus | 250 |
Farewell to Power Salute to Glory | 252 |
Journeys End | 249 |
THE LEGACY | 260 |
Ideas and Ideals | 264 |
The Realist of the Revolution | 267 |
Paths of Glory | 272 |
Dynamics of Leadership | 275 |
The Cult of Bolivar | 279 |
Notes | 285 |
Bibliography | 314 |
Glossary | 325 |
Index | 327 |
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