La dimension atlantique des révolutions hispano-américaines

• Main Author: Federica Morelli
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: UMR 5136- France, Amériques, Espagne – Sociétés, Pouvoirs, Acteurs (FRAMESPA) 2012-03-01
• Series: Les Cahiers de Framespa
• Subjects: Atlantic history; Independence; Hispanic American Revolutions
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/framespa/1238

This essay examines the different interpretations historians have attributed to Hispanic American revolutions over time. The relevance of an Atlantic reading of these processes, which has recently emerged, is founded, on the one hand, on the comparability of American societies and dynamics from the Seven Years’ War to the formation of national states, and, on the other, on the existence of transatlantic cultural transfers during the age of revolutions.