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description: This 24-lecture course is both grand drama and an absorbing intellectual exercise in comparative history. At the end of these lectures you will have a detailed understanding of how our hemisphere took shape and why. The scope of the work is as follows:-Revolutions and Wars for Independence-Origins of Revolution in the Atlantic World-Colonial Empires on the Eve of Revolution-The 'North' American Revolution Emerges-From Lexington and Concord to Yorktown-The Radicalism of the American Revolution-Slave Rebellion in St. Domingue-The Haitian Revolution-Seeds of Rebellion in Spanish America-Napoleon Invades Spain and Portugal-Francisco de Miranda: The Precursor-Simon Bolivar: The Liberator-Liberating Northern South America-San Martn and Argentine Independence-Bernardo O'Higgins and Chile-Liberating Peru-Mexico: Race and Class Warfare-Mexico: Empire and Chaos-Brazil: A Royal Revolution-Failed Movements in the Caribbean-The British West Indies and Canada-The Strange Case of Paraguay-Revolutions Made and Unmade-The Aftermath of Independence
language: English
title: The Americas In The Revolutionary Era
publisher: The Teaching Company