Simón Bolívar : history and myth / Michael Zeuske ; translated by Steven Rendall and Lisa Neal.
"All over Latin America, and especially in the Venezuela of Hugo Chávez, Latin America's liberator, Simón Bolívar, is a political idol and symbol of that continent's new political self-confidence. The legends about him remain alive and have been the basis for numerous political speech...
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| Other title: | Simon Bolivar, Befreier Südamerikas. English |
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| Language: | English German |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Markus Wiener Publishers,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : dimensions of the Bolívar myth
- Historical foundations : constructions of a nation. Elites without a nation or a myth ; Discourses of the nation, slave revolts, and caste society ; Caudillos and Bolívar revenants : nineteenth-century experiments with the state ; The conservative and the revolutionary Bolívar in the "Age of Extremes"
- Simón Bolívar : the man and the myth. The glorious Bolívar family ; In search of the ancestors ; The Bolívars' fortune ; The conservative-romantic Bolívar myth ; From the "Marxist" to the "Democratic" Bolívar and back
- Excursus : "Humboldt and Bolívar" : on a conversation that may never have taken place. Postscript, April 2012
- Instead of a conclusion : the "Chavist Bolívar"