Liberty and State-Building in the Americas
ABSTRACT
Participants in this colloquium discussed and compared the processes of independence in the thirteen colonies and Spanish America.
READING LIST
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Liberty in Mexico
by
Edited by José Antonio Aguilar Rivera
Translated from the Spanish by Janet M. Burke and Ted Humphrey
Liberty in Mexico presents sixty-four essays and writings on liberty and liberalism, from the early republican period to the late twentieth century, from a variety of authors. The texts in this edition will refute commonly held notions that the liberal project in Latin America had no indigenous roots. The institutions…
Additional Readings
Fe política de un colombiano, o tres cuestiones importantes para la política del día (Bogota, 1827)
Bolívar, Simón. Doctrina del Libertador. Caracas: Biblioteca Ayacucho, 1976.
Costeloe, Michael. Response to Revolution: Imperial Spain and the Spanish American Revolutions, 1810-1840. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Davis, David Brion. Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Egaña, Juan. Memoria Política sobre si conviene en Chile la libertad de Cultos. Caracas: Imprenta de G. F. Devisme, 1829.
Elliott, J. H. Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.
Hamilton, Alexander, James Madison, and John Jay. The Federalist: The Gideon Edition. Edited by George W. Carey and James McClellan. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc., 2001.
Jefferson, Thomas. Writings. Edited by Merrill D. Peterson. New York: Library of America, 1984.
Klein, Herbert and Ben Vinson. African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Madison, James. “Memorial and Remonstrance against Religious Assessments.” Religious Freedom. http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/amendI_religions43.html (Aug 3, 2016).
Nelson, Eric. The Royalist Revolution: Monarchy and the American Founding. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1983.
Rocafuerte, Vicente. Ensayo sobre tolerancia religiosa. Mexico: Imprente de M. Rivera, 1831.