Author:
Zeuske, Michael.
Imprint:Princeton, N.J. : Markus Wiener Publishers, 2013.
Description146 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Note:Translation of: Simon Bolivar, Befreier Südamerikas.
Note:Introduction : Dimensions of the Bolivar myth -- Historical foundations: constructions of a nation : Elites without a nation or a myth ; Discourses of the nation, slave revolts, and caste society ; Caudillos and Bolivar revenants: nineteenth-century experiments with the state ; The conservative and the revolutionary Bolivar in the "age of extremes" -- Simn Bolivar: the man and the myth : The glorious Bolivar family ; In search of the ancestors ; The Bolivars' fortune ; The conservative-romantic Bolivar myth ; From the "Marxist" to the "Democratic" Bolivar and back -- Excursus: "Humboldt and Bolivar": on a conversation that may never have taken place : Postscript, April 2012 -- Instead of a conclusion : The "Chavist Bolivar".
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-146).
