Bolivar's Total War. War, Politics, and Revolution in the Age of Independence
ABSTRACT. 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 nineteenth centur...
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fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:10670/1.5h39nx 2023-05-15T17:32:26+02:00 Bolivar's Total War. War, Politics, and Revolution in the Age of Independence Rojas Castro, Daniel Emilio 2021-09-01 http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1900-65862021000300643 en eng Escuela Militar de Cadetes "General José María Córdova" 10670/1.5h39nx http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1900-65862021000300643 Revista Científica General José María Córdova Revista Científica General José María Córdova v.19 n.35 2021 hist anthro-se Journal Article https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_6501/ 2021 fttriple 2023-01-22T17:01:44Z ABSTRACT. 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 nineteenth century in the Spanish Viceroyalty of New Granada. To prove it, we analyze the social militarization caused by the enlightened reforms of the eighteenth century, the impact of political revolution in the Atlantic world and the decisive role of religion in creating an enemy that should be exterminated. The article concludes by pointing out two topics that underline the uniqueness of total war in a region of Latin America: the spatial and temporal unity of different forms of regular and irregular warfare, and the fact that total war was not the consequence of state action, but the starting point for State-building. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic Unknown |
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ABSTRACT. 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 nineteenth century in the Spanish Viceroyalty of New Granada. To prove it, we analyze the social militarization caused by the enlightened reforms of the eighteenth century, the impact of political revolution in the Atlantic world and the decisive role of religion in creating an enemy that should be exterminated. The article concludes by pointing out two topics that underline the uniqueness of total war in a region of Latin America: the spatial and temporal unity of different forms of regular and irregular warfare, and the fact that total war was not the consequence of state action, but the starting point for State-building. |
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Bolivar's Total War. War, Politics, and Revolution in the Age of Independence |
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Bolivar's Total War. War, Politics, and Revolution in the Age of Independence |
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Escuela Militar de Cadetes "General José María Córdova" |
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Revista Científica General José María Córdova Revista Científica General José María Córdova v.19 n.35 2021 |
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