CHAPTER III

THE STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE

I. Economic and political aspects of the struggles--Monarchy and the Republic--The leaders: Miranda, Belgrano, Francia, Iturbide, King Pedro I., Artigas, San Martin, Bolivar--Bolivar the Liberator: his ideas and his deeds.

II. Revolutionary ideology--Influence of Rousseau--The rights of man--The example of the United States--English ideas in the constitutional projects of Miranda and Bolivar--European action: Canning--Nationalism versus Americanism.

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