For Glory and Bolívar: The Remarkable Life of Manuela Sáenz

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University of Texas Press, 2009 M09 15 - 238 páginas

She was a friend, lover, and confidante of charismatic Spanish American independence hero Simón Bolívar and, after her death, a nationalist icon in her own right. Yet authors generally have chosen either to romanticize Manuela Sáenz or to discount her altogether. For Glory and Bolivar: The Remarkable of Life of Manuela Sáenz, by contrast, offers a comprehensive and clear-eyed biography of her. Based on unprecedented archival research, it paints a vivid portrait of the Quito-born "Libertadora," revealing both an exceptional figure and a flesh-and-blood person whose life broadly reflected the experiences of women during Spanish America's turbulent Age of Revolution.

Already married at the time of her meeting with the famous Liberator, Sáenz abandoned her husband in order to become not only Bolívar's romantic companion, but also his official archivist, a member of his inner circle, and one of his most loyal followers. She played a central role in Spanish South America's independence drama and eventually in developments leading to the consolidation of new nations. Pamela Murray, for the first time, closely examines Sáenz's political trajectory including her vital, often-overlooked years in exile. She exposes the myths that still surround her. She offers, in short, a nuanced and much-needed historical perspective, one that balances recognition of Sáenz's uniqueness with awareness of the broader forces that shaped this dynamic nineteenth-century woman.

 

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Introduction
1
ONE Beginnings 17971822
9
TWO Libertadora 18221827
27
THREE Colombian Crucible 18271830
51
FOUR The Liberals Revenge 18311835
83
FIVE Exile and Vindication 18351845
103
SIX Finding Home circa 18451856
131
SEVEN Afterlife
155
Notes
163
Bibliography
205
Index
217
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Pamela S. Murray is Associate Professor of History at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and author of Dreams of Development: Colombia's National School of Mines and its Engineers, 1887-1970. She is currently investigating the role of women in Colombia's nineteenth-century politics.

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