Bolivar’s Total War. War, Politics, and Revolution in the Age of Independence

• Published in: Revista Científica General José María Córdova
• Main Author: Rojas, Daniel
• Other Authors: Université Grenoble Alpes - UFR de Langues étrangères (LLCE et LEA) (UGA UFR LLCE LEA), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2021
• Subjects: independences; New Granada; politics; revolutions; war; independencias; Nueva Granada; política; revolución; siglo XIX; guerra; [SHS.HIST]Humanities and Social Sciences/History; Consecuencia; Partida; Independencia; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://hal.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/hal-03622507; https://hal.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/hal-03622507/document; https://hal.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/hal-03622507/file/Bolivars_Total_War.pdf; https://doi.org/10.21830/19006586.794

International audience This article proposes introducing the concept of total war into the study of Latin American Independence in the 1810s and 1820s. We argue that total war was not an exclusively North Atlantic phenomenon, but an experience that also manifested itself at the beginning of the nine...