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> Americas in the Revolutionary Era
>
> 24 lectures, 30 minutes per lecture
> Course No. 8617
>
> Taught by Marshall C. Eakin
> Vanderbilt University
> Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles
>
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>
> 56 Kbps, 44 Khz, stereo
>
> 144 MP3 files, 291 MB (approx 2 MB ea)
>
> Plus RAR2 files
>
> ===============================================
>
> 01-01 Revolutions and Wars for Independence
> 02-01 Origins of Revolution in the Atlantic World
> 03-01 Colonial Empires on the Eve of Revolution
> 04-01 The "North" American Revolution Emerges
> 05-01 From Lexington and Concord to Yorktown
> 06-01 The Radicalism of the American Revolution
> 07-01 Slave Rebellion in St. Domingue
> 08-01 The Haitian Revolution
> 09-01 Seeds of Rebellion in Spanish America
> 10-01 Napoleon Invades Spain and Portugal
> 11-01 Francisco de Miranda - The Precursor
> 12-01 Simon Bolivar - The Liberator
> 13-01 Liberating Northern South America
> 15-01 Bernardo O'Higgins and Chile
> 16-01 Liberating Peru
> 17-01 Mexico - Race and Class Warfare
> 18-01 Mexico - Empire and Chaos
> 19-01 Brazil - A Royal Revolution?
> 20-01 Failed Movements in the Caribbean
> 21-01 The British West Indies and Canada
> 22-01 The Strange Case of Paraguay
> 23-01 Revolutions Made and Unmade
> 24-01 The Aftermath of Independence
>
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>
> The revolution that created the U.S. was only one of many "American
> revolutions." From 1776 to 1825, wars for independence erupted
> throughout the Americas-from Boston to Buenos Aires-creating 19 new
> nations.
>
> What common roots did these revolutionary movements share? What role
> did such events as the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, and
> the French Revolution play? How did the "radicalism" of the U.S.
> revolution affect other European colonies in the Western Hemisphere?
> How did Napoleon Bonaparte's invasion and occupation of Spain spark
> revolts across Spanish America?
>
> The Americas in the Revolutionary Era answers these and many more
> important but often overlooked questions about the tumultuous
> political history of our part of the world. Professor Marshall C.
> Eakin explains the cultural, economic, and political pressures each of
> these new American nations faced in achieving independence. In
> addition, he examines-through the unique figures and situations
> present in each country-exactly why each revolution progressed as it
> did, succeeding or failing, its history written "in ink and in blood."
>
> The Americas' "Other" Revolutions and Founding Fathers
>
> Beginning with the revolution in our own 13 colonies, these lectures
> examine the uprisings and invasions that created the independent
> nation of Haiti in 1804; the wars for independence in Spanish South
> America; the bloody uprisings that led to Mexican independence; and
> the relatively bloodless revolt in Brazil. You will also consider
> "counterexamples," nations that failed to become independent or
> followed unusual patterns, such as Cuba, Puerto Rico, the British West
> Indies, and Paraguay.
>
> This is also an opportunity to learn more about the "other" founding
> fathers of the Americas: Haiti's Toussaint L'Ouverture; Francisco de
> de Iturbide of Mexico.
>
> The Individuals Who Shaped Our Hemisphere
>
> Professor Marshall C. Eakin is ideally suited to lead this fascinating
> excursion across so many cultures. Originally a student of both
> anthropology and history before focusing on the latter, he has worked,
> lived, studied, and done research across all of Latin America since he
> was a high school student. As Professor Eakin points out, "structures
> and institutions matter, but history is made by individuals." The
> significant figures you will meet, whose stories are brought to life
> in episodes that are often as surprising as they are fascinating,
> include:
>
> rode into battle accompanied by an immense African bodyguard who would
> protect and carry him during his frequent epileptic seizures.
>
> The colorful Thomas Cochrane, Earl of Dundonald, the British naval
> mercenary whose key role in helping to win the independence of Brazil,
> Chile, and Peru included managing to steal the Peruvian flagship
> during an important battle.
>
> walled off Paraguay from the surrounding world for 30 years, spurning
> modernity at the same time as he achieved for his nation such
> self-sufficiency that today historians are reconsidering their once
> negative view of him.
>
> nobleman. Fiery, intellectual, and idealistic, he commanded troops on
> behalf of the colonists in the American Revolution! Yet he eventually
> developed a visceral hatred of whites, and would arrive in Haiti
> preaching the gospel of class and race genocide.
>
> The Human Side of the Quest for Independence
>
> Throughout these lectures, as Professor Eakin explores the forces that
> shaped each nation's path to independence, he never allows you to
> forget that these forces ultimately translate into the events of
> people's lives. He brings his perspective down to ground level,
> spanning oceans and mountain ranges to translate those forces into
> dramatic events, including:
>
> A riveting portrait of life among the slaves of what was then known as
> Saint Domingue (later Haiti), including the conditions of their plight
> and the brutal Code Noir under which they lived. The Haitian revolt
> remains to this day the only successful slave rebellion in the
> hemisphere: the nightmare that white slaveholders had always feared.
>
> A brilliant description of the chaotic evacuation of the Portuguese
> royal family and its entourage-10,000 people in allas-they fled to
> Brazil only an hour ahead of Napoleon's troops. They would rule the
> remains of their empire from Rio, which they would attempt to make,
> ironically, into a tropical version of Versailles.
>
> dramatic march from the tropics of eastern Venezuela through the
> liberate Colombia. Embittered late in life by his failure to foster
> true freedom or stable governments in five South American nations,
>
> The heroic resistance to Napoleon exhibited by the Spanish people-with
> some of our best documentation available in the paintings of
> Goya-including the tactics that gave the world the term "guerilla"
> warfare.
>
> 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.
>
> ======================================================
>
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