scholarly journals Twenty-One Theses on the Legal Legacy of the French Revolution in Latin America

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dante Figueroa
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
The French Revolution

All Societies Die

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Cohn
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Byzantine Empire ◽  
Common Features ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Drug Cartels ◽  
End Of The World ◽  
The French Revolution

The author of this book asks us to prepare for the inevitable. Our society is going to die. What are you going to do about it? But the author also wants us to know that there's still reason for hope. In an immersive and mesmerizing discussion, this book considers what makes societies (throughout history) collapse. It points us to the historical examples of the Byzantine empire, the collapse of Somalia, the rise of Middle Eastern terrorism, the rise of drug cartels in Latin America, and the French Revolution, to explain how societal decline has common features and themes. While unveiling the past, the message to us about the present is searing. Through an assessment of past and current societies, the book offers us a new way of looking at societal growth and decline. With a broad panorama of bloody stories, unexpected historical riches, crime waves, corruption, and disasters, the reader is shown that although our society will, inevitably, die at some point, there's still a lot we can do to make it better and live a little longer. This inventive approach to an “end-of-the-world” scenario should be a warning. We're not there yet. The book concludes with a strategy of preserving and rebuilding so that we don't have to give a eulogy anytime soon.

scholarly journals Balance Sheets for the Acquisition, Retention and Loss of European Empires Overseas

Itinerario ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 23 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 25-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Karl O'Brien ◽  
Leandro Prados de la Escosura
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Balance Sheets ◽  
Imperial Power ◽  
Domestic Economies ◽  
The French Revolution

Our essay will critically survey and attempt to offer an overall interpretation of a growing volume of publications by historians who have attempted to evaluate the costs and benefits for Europe's domestic economies flowing from some five centuries of involvement with empires overseas. That involvement began with the conquest of Ceuta by the Portuguese in 1417 and passed through two epochs: 1417-1825 and 1825-1974. After a first conjuncture marked by the French Revolution, a quarter of a century of global warfare and movements for independence in Southern America, Britain emerged as the hegemonic imperial power in Europe. Its major rivals for commerce and dominion in Africa, Asia and the Americas (Portugal, Spain, France and Holland) ceded control over parts of their possessions overseas to Britain or (in the cases of Spain and Portugal), lost sovereignty over their colonies in Latin America.

The Church and Revolution: From the French Revolution of 1789 to the Paris Riots of 1968; from Cuba to Southern Africa; from Vietnam to Latin America.

1973 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 345
Author(s):  
Samuel Shapiro ◽  
Francois Houtart ◽  
Andre Rousseau ◽  
Violet Nevile ◽  
Karl M. Schmitt
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
The Church ◽  
The French Revolution

scholarly journals How global was the age of revolutions? The case of Mount Lebanon, 1821

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Peter Hill
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
North Atlantic ◽  
The North ◽  
The North Atlantic ◽  
Geographical Scope ◽  
The French Revolution

Abstract This article addresses the question of the geographical scope of the ‘age of revolutions’ (c.1750–1850) through the case of a peasant uprising in Mount Lebanon in 1821. This uprising had similarities with recent and contemporary revolutions and rebellions, which have led some to suggest the influence of the ideas of the French Revolution of 1789 or the Greek Revolution of 1821. This article argues that influence at the level of ideas was unimportant, but that the similarities can plausibly be traced to similar and connected contexts at the level of political economy, as the expansion and crisis of military-fiscal states provoked opposition ‘from below’ and renegotiations of sovereignty. This focus on political economy rather than genealogies of ideas can then help define an ‘age of revolutions’ extending beyond Europe and the north Atlantic into the Ottoman empire, Latin America, and other regions.

Playing with the Nation: Napoleon and the Culture of Nationalism

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Alter
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Social Unit ◽  
Napoleon Bonaparte ◽  
Political Forces ◽  
National Autonomy ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
The French Revolution ◽  
The Revolution

In his time, Napoleon Bonaparte of France commanded the ideological environment which made nationalism grow and helped to turn the idea of the ‘nation’ into one of the most powerful political forces in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Napoleon's conquests, and the strong reactions they provoked in England, Spain, Germany, Poland, and Russia, intensified and diffused the civic ideas of national autonomy, unity, and identity across Europe and throughout Latin America. It is this aspect of Napoleon's historic impact which, more or less by accident, and only in a few instances deliberately, helped to spread a new political culture or, indeed, a new political cult whose origins can be traced back to the French Revolution. The new political culture which arose out of the Revolution focused on the concept of the democratic, sovereign nation as a novel political and social unit for the organisation of society. National aspirations turned against Napoleon and his rule over Europe, and helped substantially to bring him down, instead of lending him support in consolidating his overstretched empire.

Frenchmen and Francophiles in New Spain from 1760 to 1810

1957 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacques Houdaille
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Latin America ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
New Spain ◽  
Great Influence ◽  
Spanish America ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Short Essay ◽  
History Books ◽  
The French Revolution

IT is often said that the French Revolution and the ideas of the philosophers of the eighteenth century were of great influence in Latin America and that they constituted the intellectual motivation of its movements toward independence.This idea is presented in the majority of elementary history books. It is worthy of note that in the national hymn of the Republic of Honduras, one of the stanzas lauds the work of the Convention and mentions Danton.However, some years ago a French historian, Marius André, published a rather short essay, La fin de l’Empire Espagnol des Indes, in which he attempted to demonstrate that the independence of Spanish America was achieved by a group of conservatives who were frightened by the rebellion of Riego in Spain and who had no desire at any time to take the French Revolution as a model.

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