This book covers the years from the breakdown of the Spanish Empire
in America to the stabilisation of the new republic of Chile. It is
a survey of the political ideas and the interplay of ideas and
political action during the independence period. Whilst examining
the influences making for change in late colonial Chile and the
implications of political experiment and instability, much of the
text is devoted to a description of the common ideology of the
revolution. The author considers that the political theory was
based on the notions of the social contract, the sovereignty of the
people, representative government, the division of powers and a
system of natural rights. It was derived from the liberal thought
of the enlightenment and from the doctrines of the North American
and French revolutions. But it was a complex of vaguer emotions and
attitudes such as utopianism, anti-Spanish feeling, the 'black
legend', an incipient nationalism and the idealisation of the
Araucanian Indian which gave the revolution its mystique.
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