Spanish American Independence Movements: A History in Documents: (From the Broadview Sources Series)

ISBN-13: 9781554814565 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021

Wim Klooster

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• Alternate Table of Contents: Documents Separated by RegionIntroduction
• Background: Ethnicity, Culture, and Power in the Spanish Territories
• Early Revolts and Rebellions
• The French Revolution and Spanish America
• Napoleon’s Invasion of Spain and the Imperial Crisis
• The Road to a Constitution
• The Constitution of Cádiz
• Revolts in New Spain
• Creole Ascension in the Río de la Plata
• South America’s Southern Theater
• New Granada: South America’s Northern Theater
• The Perils of Self-Governance
• Fernando’s Return
• Bolívar’s Success
• Peru and San Martín’s Achievement
• South America’s Final Battles
• Mexican Independence
• Central America
• Political Renewal
• Social Changes
• Chronology
• Questions to Consider PART 1: PRELUDE
• 1. Doña Micaela Bastidas to Messrs. Governors Don Baltasar Cárdenas, Don Tomás Enríquez, and Don Mariano Flores, Tungasuca, 15 December 1780
• 2. Interrogation of José Ortiz, Medellín (New Granada), 21 December 1781
• 3. Silvestre García, royal councilor, to [Governor Luis de Las Casas], Havana, 9 February 1795
• PART 2: IMPERIAL CRISIS
• 4. Juan Pablo Viscardo y Guzmán, Letter to the American Spaniards, Philadelphia, 1799
• 5. Napoleon to Joachim Murat, lieutenant general of the Kingdom of Spain, Bayonne, 11, 21, and 26 May 1808
• 6. Salvador José de Muro y Salazar, Marquis of Someruelos, Proclamation to the Inhabitants of Cuba, Havana, 17 July 1808
• 7. Memorandum of grievances (Memorial de Agravios), cabildo of Bogotá, 20 November 1809
• 8. The Superior Junta of Cádiz to Spanish America, 28 February 1810
• 9. The Governing Junta of Caracas to the Constituted Authorities of All Towns of Venezuela, 1810
• 10. El Diario Político de Santafé de Bogotá, 18 September 1810
• PART 3: INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENTS TAKE OFF
• 11. Edict of Manuel Abad y Queipo, bishop of Michoacán, Valladolid (Mexico), 24 September 1810
• 12. Juan Bautista Díaz Calvillo, Discourse about the Ills that Disunity between Overseas and American Spaniards Can Cause
• 13. Miguel Hidalgo, Proclamation to the American Nation, Guadalajara, 21 November 1810
• 14. Statement by the Royal Trade Guild of Mexico against American free trade, Mexico City, 16 July 1811
• 15. Manifesto for the World by the Federation of Venezuela, Caracas, 30 July 1811
• 16. Speech by José Miguel Guridi y Alcocer, deputy of Tlaxcala (Mexico), in the Cortes of Cádiz, 4 September 1811
• 17. Act of Independence, Cartagena de Indias, 11 November 1811
• 18. Manuel Ignacio González del Campillo, bishop of Puebla, to José Maria Morelos, Puebla, 14 November 1811
• 19. Robert Semple, Sketch of the Present State of Caracas; Including a Journey from Caracas through La Victoria to Puerto Cabello, 1812
• 20. Political Constitution of the Spanish Monarchy, Promulgated in Cádiz on 19 March 1812
• 21. Interrogation and punishment of Francisco Cudina, April–August 1812
• 22. El Grito del Sud [Buenos Aires], 21 July 1812
• 23. George Dawson Flinter, A History of the Revolution of Caracas: Comprising an Impartial Narrative of the Atrocities Committed by the Contending Parties, Illustrating the Real State of the Contest, Both in a Commercial and Political Point of View, 1813–14
• 24. José de Bustamante, governor and captain-general of Guatemala, to the Council of Regency, Guatemala, 3 March 1813
• 25. Manifesto for the Mexican People by the Representatives of the Provinces of North America, Chilpancingo, 6 November 1813
• 26. J.P. Robertson and W.P. Robertson, Four Years in Paraguay: Comprising an Account of That Republic under the Government of the Dictator Francia, ca. 1814–15
• 27. Manuel Belgrano to José de San Martín, Santiago del Estero, 6 April 1814
• 28. José Miguel Carrera, Proclamation by the Restorative Army to Its Brothers in Concepción, 1814
• PART 4: FERNANDO’S RESTORATION, CONTINUED WARFARE, AND INDEPENDENCE
• 29. José Hipólito Unanue, To the King, Our Lord. The Thinker of Peru, 1815
• 30. Simón Bolívar, letter from Jamaica, 6 September 1815
• 31. Rafael Sevilla, Memories of an Officer in the Spanish Army: Campaigns against Bolívar and the American Separatists, 1815
• 32. Simón Bolívar, decree regarding the emancipation of enslaved people, Carúpano, Venezuela, 2 June 1816
• 33. Brigadier Francisco Tomás Morales to Pablo Morillo, Ocumare, 15 July 1816
• 34. Proclamation by Javier Mina, Explaining the Motives for His Expedition, Galveston, 22 February 1817
• 35. British Foreign Office, “Confidential Memorandum”
• 36. Bernardo O’Higgins to José de San Martín, Concepción, 30 July 1817
• 37. H.M. Brackenridge, Voyage to South America, Performed by Order of the American Government, in the Years 1817 and 1818, in the Frigate Congress
• 38. Decree issued by Bernardo O’Higgins, Santiago de Chile, 3 June 1818
• 39. Pablo Morillo to Spain’s Ministry of War, Montalbán, 4 July 1818
• 40. Pablo Morillo to Spain’s Minister of War, Caracas, 20 September 1818
• 41. Nicolás Cabrera to the militia of free blacks and mulattoes, Buenos Aires, 16 February 1819
• PART 5: IMPERIAL DEFEAT AND CONSTRUCTION OF NEW REGIMES
• 42. J.R. Rengger and M. Longchamp, Historical Essay on the Revolution of Paraguay and the Dictatorial Government of Dr. Francia. Part of the Voyage to Paraguay, 1819
• 43. Testimony of Juan José García before Antonio Fominaya, governor of Socorro, Socorro (New Granada), 12 March 1819
• 44. J.P. Robertson and W.P. Robertson, Letters on South America; Comprising Travels on the Paraná and Rio de La Plata, 1819–20
• 45. Richard Longfield Vowell, Campaigns and Cruises, in Venezuela and New Grenada, and in the Pacific Ocean; from 1817–1830
• 46. Law adopted by Colombia to confiscate the possessions of Spaniards, 1821
• 47. Lionel Hervey to the Marquis of Londonderry, Madrid, 27 May 1822
• 48. Basil Hall, Extracts from a Journal, Written on the Coasts of Chili, Peru, and Mexico, in the Years 1820, 1821, 1822
• 49. Francisco María Roca, Friend of the Country or Essays about the Happiness of This Province, 1822
• 50. Antonio José de Sucre to Simón Bolívar, Yungay, Peru, 25 February 1824
• 51. Manuel Antonio López, Historical Memories of Colonel Manuel Antonio López, Deputy to the General Staff of the Liberating Army: Colombia and Peru, 1819–1826
• 52. Gaceta del Gobierno de Lima, 1 January 1825
• 53. Law issued by Peru’s Governing Council, forcing enslaved people to return to work, Gaceta del Gobierno de Lima, 22 September 1825
• 54. Constitution of Bolivia, 22 November 1826
• Glossary
• Select Bibliography
• Index