The Hispanic American independence: one singular process

Abstract

The author compares the different course of the process of Independence in the Thirteen Colonies and in Spanish America, pointing out the strong resistance placed in the second case against the much milder in the first one. The origin of this difference is to be placed in the way Spain and Great Britain colonized their respective territories since the beginning. In the process itself, he analyses the first steps in Spanish America, showing their dependence upon the shifting political and military situation in the Spanish metropolis.