Simn Bolvar: Venezuelan Rebel, American Revolutionary,Used

Simn Bolvar: Venezuelan Rebel, American Revolutionary,Used

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Brand: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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This compelling biography offers a unique perspective on the life and career of one of Latin America's most famousand most adulatedhistorical figures. Departing from the conventional, narrow treatment of Bolvar's role in the SpanishAmerican wars of independence (18101825), 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 Bolvar gained power, twice he confronted a formidable counterrevolution, twice he was compelled to flee. His ultimate tactic of using slave and mixedrace 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 SpanishAmerican wars as well as the arguments over the admission of Missouri as a state in 18201821 and the U.S. decision to participate in the illfated Congress of Panama.Although he earned the sobriquet of the 'George Washington' of South America, Bolvar in victory became more conservative and critical of the democratic tide of the era. Unlike Washington, Bolvar 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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