The essays that make up this volume had their origin in a symposium held at the University of California, Irvine, in 2003. Some have been revised minimally or not at all for publication, others are significantly expanded; Jaime Rodríguez’s own contribution is a solid 45-page monograph on Guayaquil from 1808 to 1820. All have been equipped with the appropriate reference notes, and at the end there is a 48-page bibliography for the volume as a whole. As indicated by the volume title, the topical coverage is broad enough to encompass almost anything, at least of a political nature, that occurred in the Hispanic world between 1808 and the 1830s (although as Rodríguez notes in his introduction, mere próceres are de-emphasized). The first two essays treat the French and Haitian revolutions as background for subsequent developments in the Hispanic world rather than expressly analyzing connections and parallels.
The volume forms part...
