HIST1094 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Cry Of Dolores, Agustín De Iturbide, Gran Colombia
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Napoleon"s conquest was in europe but battles took place all around the world. Latin america on the eve of the revolutions: direct royal rule form portugal (in brazil) or spain (most of the rest of central and south. America: primarily directed towards resource extraction: precious metals, agricultural commodities, stark class/racial hierarchy, wasn"t the same mass migration into the latin american countries like it was with the. Latin american social hierarchy~1800: peninsulares officials born in spain, ran government, haciendadoes major creole (american-born) landowners. Often had monopoly on land, capital, political power in the countryside. Rivaled the peninsulares could never be above them because the p"s were from. Most often white (or passing: campesinoes rural agricultural workers. Often economically dependent (and politically subservient) to landowners. Most often native/india or mized (mestizo: slaves less important in south america or mexico than in the caribbean but still present in much of latin america.
