Nationality, Nationalism, and Supranationalism in the Writings of Simon Bolivar
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7788720 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Simón Bolívar, Simon Collier (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 63 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 37-64 |
| Publication date | 1983-02-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hispanic American Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2168 • E-ISSN: 1527-1900 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00182168-63.1.37 |
| OpenAlex | W2324722555, W4249899791 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
A NY new discussion of more or less any feature of Simon Bolivar's life or thought runs inevitable risk of covering ground whose most intimate topography has long since been scrutinized with care by generations of scholars. So self-evidently important was Liberator's career to course of Latin American history-and no invocation of structures, or conjunctures, or even vast impersonal forces can really diminish that importance-that legions of historians, good and bad, have devoted themselves with wholehearted passion to reconstruction of its every detail. In case of Spanish American writers, patriotic pietas has produced some memorable scholarship as well as examples of exaggerated hero-worship or tedious detallismno. The effort has been prodigious. What, in fact, is there really left to say about Bolivar? The commemoration of his bicentenary offers an opportunity to reexamine some of main themes of his career and to probe, through a perusal of his copious writings, more persistent fixed ideas that exercised his extraordinarily vigorous mind. That it was an unusual mind-forcefully imaginative as well as acutely perceptive-is beyond dispute. Daniel O'Leary believed that the force and activity of his imagination tormented him.' Even Salvador de Madariaga, a by no means sympathetic biographer, admits quality of supreme intelligence to be found in Bolivar's prolific correspondence.2 This is not to say, however, that Bolivar was a systematic thinker: his writings, great bulk of which were in epistolary form, reflect brilliant intuitions rather than deeply elaborate theoretical constructions. This is certainly case with his views on focus of this present essay, incipient nationalism and supranationalism. This topic was
Immigration · Nationalism · Nationality · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Cultural and political discourse analysis · History · History and Politics in Latin America · International Relations in Latin America · Latin American Literature Studies · Law · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America
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Cross-Field Effects and Ethnic Classification
| Citations per year | 0.36 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1990 - 2023 (34) |
| Highly cited | No |