Latin American Research Review (Mar 2020)

Latin America’s “Great Divergence”: New Research on the Age of Revolution

  • Jesse Zarley

DOI
https://doi.org/10.25222/larr.1156
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 55, no. 1

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This essay reviews the following works: Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution. By Kathleen DuVal. New York: Random House, 2015. Pp. ix + 464. $18.00 paperback. ISBN: 9780812981209. Indian and Slave Royalists in the Age of Revolution: Reform, Revolution, and Royalism in the Northern Andes, 1780–1825. By Marcela Echeverri. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. xvi + 276 $27.99 paperback. ISBN: 9781316018842. Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution. By Ada Ferrer. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. xiv + 377. $29.98 paperback. ISBN: 9781107697782. La restauración en la Nueva Granada (1815–1819). By Daniel Gutiérrez Ardila. Bogotá: Universidad Externado de Colombia, 2016. Pp. ix + 300. $11.99 paperback. ISBN: 9789587726725. A Great Fear: Luís de Onís and the Shadow War against Napoleon in Spanish America, 1808–1812. By Timothy Hawkins. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2019. Pp. ix + 256. $49.95 hardcover. ISBN: 9780817392130. Who Should Rule? Men of Arms, the Republic of Letters, and the Fall of the Spanish Empire. By Mónica Ricketts. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. xii + 314. $78.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9780190494889. The Ideology of Creole Revolution: Imperialism and Independence in American and Latin American Political Thought. By Joshua Simon. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. ix + 284. $32.00 paperback. ISBN: 9781316610961. Tides of Revolution: Information, Insurgencies, and the Crisis of Colonial Rule in Venezuela. By Cristina Soriano. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2018. Pp. ix + 336. $95.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9780826359858. Mexico City, 1808: Power, Sovereignty, and Silver in an Age of War and Revolution. By John Tutino. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2018. Pp. x + 320. $29.95 paperback. ISBN: 9780826360014. New Countries: Capitalism, Revolutions, and Nations in the Americas, 1750–1870. Edited by John Tutino. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016. Pp. ix + 408. $28.95 paperback. ISBN: 9780822361336.