The United States And Latin America - 9781544725376

The English colonies of North America renounced allegiance to their sovereign more through fear of future oppression than on account of burdens actually imposed. The colonies of Spain in the southern hemisphere, on the other hand, labored for generations under the burden of one of the most irrational and oppressive economic systems to which any portion of the human race has ever been subjected, and remained without serious attempt at revolution until the dethronement of their sovereign by Napoleon left them to drift gradually, in spite of themselves, as Chateaubriand expressed it, into the republican form of government. To carry the contrast a step further, when the conditions were ripe for independence, the English colonies offered a united resistance, while the action of the Spanish colonies was spasmodic and disconcerted.

Author: John Holladay Latane

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Publication Date: Mar 26, 2017

Number of Pages: 258 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 154472537X

ISBN-13: 9781544725376