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<html><body><h1>SIM��N BOL��VAR</h1>A LIFE<hr noshade size="1">By JOHN LYNCH</hr><h4>Yale University Press</h4>Copyright &copy; 2006 Yale University All right reserved. ISBN: 978-0-300-11062-3 <hr noshade size='1'></hr><h3>Contents</h3><pre>List of Illustrations...........................................ixPreface.........................................................xiMaps............................................................xv1. Out of a Spanish Colony......................................1Venezuelan Homeland.............................................1Family, Friends and Neighbours..................................7A Youth of Independent Means....................................16Old Spain, Young Love...........................................182. Lessons from the Age of Reason...............................22Life in Paris...................................................22Political Awakening.............................................24A Spanish American in the Age of Revolution.....................28Bol��var and the Enlightenment...................................31Return to Venezuela.............................................393. Creole Revolution............................................41Grievances of a Colony..........................................411808, the Critical Year.........................................44The London Mission..............................................49Independence, Declared and Destroyed............................54War with Spain and with Nature..................................57The Defeat of the First Republic................................634. War to the Death.............................................65The Cartagena Manifesto.........................................65The Western Front...............................................68War by Terror...................................................72The Liberator...................................................75Counter-Revolution..............................................81Exit and Exile..................................................885. Touchstone of the Revolution.................................91The Jamaica Letter..............................................91The Caudillos...................................................98Confrontation with Piar.........................................102The Tactics of Race.............................................108An Army for Liberation..........................................110P��ez and the Llaneros: A New Challenge..........................1136. New Strategy, New Front......................................119The Angostura Address...........................................119Reinforcements and Reappraisal..................................122A Second Front..................................................124Boyac��..........................................................129Tensions after Triumph..........................................132Carabobo........................................................1397. Society According to Bol��var.................................143Rousseau in Retreat.............................................143Continuity and Change...........................................146Bolivarian Society..............................................151Citizen Soldiers................................................156The Bolivarian Economy..........................................1598. War and Love in the Andes....................................167Mountain Barriers...............................................167Conference in Guayaquil.........................................171Defence of the Revolution.......................................175Manuela S��enz...................................................178Into Peru.......................................................183Jun��n and Ayacucho..............................................1929. The Man of Problems..........................................197Across the Desaguadero..........................................197The Bolivarian Enlightenment....................................201The Lost Purity of his Principles...............................209An Ever Greater America.........................................212A Deal with the Devil...........................................21710. The Magic of his Prestige...................................226Adios Venezuela.................................................226Quest for Strong Government.....................................230The Road to Oca��a and Power.....................................232The Assassins...................................................240Foundations of the Faith........................................244The Limits of Revolution........................................25011. Journey of Disillusion......................................252Rebels and Invaders.............................................252Sombre Thoughts from Guayaquil..................................259Monarchist Friends, Republican Enemies..........................262The Exodus......................................................266Farewell to Power, Salute to Glory..............................270Journey's End...................................................27312. The Legacy..................................................280Man and Myth....................................................280Ideas and Ideals................................................284The Realist of the Revolution...................................287Paths of Glory..................................................292Dynamics of Leadership..........................................295The Cult of Bol��var.............................................299Notes...........................................................305Bibliography....................................................334Glossary........................................................341Index...........................................................343</pre> </pre><blockquote><hr noshade size='1'>Excerpted from SIM��N BOL��VARby JOHN LYNCH Copyright &copy 2006 by Yale University. Excerpted by permission. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher. Excerpts are provided by Dial-A-Book Inc. solely for the personal use of visitors to this web site.<hr noshade size='1'></blockquote></body></html>

xiii, 349 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm

Chronicles the life of Simón Bolívar, exploring his political career, leadership dynamics, rule over the people of Spanish America, and impact on world history

Simón Bolívar : a life