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Peculiarities of the Latin American Independence Revolutions: A Comparative Study with the American Revolution
- 1 Beijing Foreign Studies University
- 2 New Channel
- 3 Shenzhen Academy of International Educations
- 4 Georgetown Preparatory School
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Abstract
This paper aims to analyze the Latin American independence revolutions from a social and ideological perspective to contribute to revising the conventional wisdom of Latin American revolutionary history. The method chosen is a comparison between the aforementioned revolutions and the American Revolution, helping to demonstrate how, far from being a simple deviation or a failure, the Latin American independence revolutions had their own traits. The paper tries to answer mainly three questions: how Latin America and America received the enlightenment idea, how those ideas affected their revolutionary process, and how both regions rebuilt and restructured after the revolution.
Keywords
History, Revolution, America, Latin America
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Zhang,Y.;Du,G.;Han,J.;Zhao,Y. (2024). Peculiarities of the Latin American Independence Revolutions: A Comparative Study with the American Revolution. Communications in Humanities Research,30,6-12.
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