Simón Bolívar
Subtitle: essays on the life and legacy of the liberator
By: edited by David Bushnell and Lester D. Langley.
Contributors: Bushnell, David, 1923-; Langley, Lester D.
Series: Latin American silhouettes
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9780742556195
Subjects: Bolívar, Simón, -- 1783-1830 -- Political and social views -- Congresses; South America -- Politics and government -- 1806-1830 -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Essays primarily from a symposium held at the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University on March 13, 2000 entitled Perspectives on Simón Bolívar.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Simón Bolívar  as political thinker / Simon Collier; title: Bolívar 's Atlantic world diplomacy / Judith Ewell; title: Simón Bolívar , Englishman: elite responsibility and social reform in Spanish American independence / Karen Racine; title: Simón Bolívar  and Andrés Bello: the republican ideal / Iván Jaksic; title: Bolívar  as triumphal state maker and despairing "democrat" / Frank Safford; title: The image of Simón Bolívar  in the United States in the revolutionary era / Lester D. Langley; title: The United States as seen by Simón Bolívar : too good a neighbor / David Bushnell; title: Bolívar  and the future of democracy / Hermes Tovar Pinzón; title: The hidden legacy of Simón Bolívar  / Germán Carrera Damas; title: Epilogue: history and our heroes: the Bolívar  legend / John Lombardi; title: Beginning to read about Bolívar / John Lombardi