| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 273 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
Bolívar unhinged: an introduction / Maureen G. Shanahan and Ana María Reyes -- Emergence and consolidation in the nineteenth century -- Simón Bolívar's itinerant portraits: visual conquest and the production of an icon / Emily A. Engel -- Dancing with the enemy: diplomacy in the revolutionary era / Juan Francisco Sans -- Bolivarian imagery and racial ideology in early nineteenth-century Cuba / Paul Niell -- Simón Bolívar's centennial anniversary: music for a triumphal parade / Juan de Dios López Maya -- The birth of the myth: the liberals and the cult of Bolívar (1840-1900) / Tomás Straka -- Disruptions and unhingings in the twentieth century -- Bolívar on the operatic stage: enlightenment hero and tyrannical failure / Maureen G. Shanahan -- Centro Simón Bolívar: a symbol of liberation for revolution square in Ljubljana, Slovenia / Tina Potonik -- In bed with dead Bolívar: Beatriz González's case for critical history painting / Ana María Reyes -- El gran dispensador by Manuel Trujillo: the weaknesses of the national hero / Alicia Ríos -- Moving histories: performing Bolívar in Jorge Alí Triana's film Bolívar soy yo (2002) / Armida de la Garza -- Re-anchorings in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries -- The liberator's sword: the most precious relic of the Bolivarian Revolution / Alejandro E. Gómez Pernia -- When the boat comes in: myth, reification, and the changing face of Simón Bolívar in Venezuelan politics and culture / Nicholas Roberts -- Embodiments and disembodiments of the nation, the people, and the state: disputing Bolívar's body, and the uses of Bolivarianism in contemporary Venezuelan politics / Luis Duno-Gottberg |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Bolívar, Simón, 1783-1830 -- Travel
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Bolívar, Simón 1783-1830 |
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Bolívar, Simón, 1783-1830. |
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Generals -- South America -- Biography
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Heads of state -- South America -- Biography
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South America -- History
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| Genre/Form |
Biography.
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History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Reyes, Ana María (College teacher), editor
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Shanahan, Maureen G., editor
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| ISBN |
0813051738 |
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0813055970 (electronic bk.) |
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9780813051734 |
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9780813055978 (electronic bk.) |
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