Summary Of "The Hispanic American Revolutions" By John Lynch - UNIVERSITY SUMMARIES - E-book - ePub

We have summarized here the essential of this book by the author. JOHN  LYNCH:  THE HISPANIC AMERICAN REVOLUTION                                 The independence of Latin America occurred at the beginning of the 19th century, when the Americans began to feel their own identity and to break ties with Spain. The reforms that Spain had implemented at the end of the 18th century (Bourbonic Reforms) aimed at deepening her imperialism, but on the contrary, they accelerated America's rebellion.
At the end of the 17th century, Latin America had emancipated itself from its first dependency on Spain, based on the extraction of metals (gold and silver), moving to a new dependency, centered on agriculture and livestock. But in reality, at the beginning of the 18th century, although there was a formal dependency, becausethe Crown controlled the administration, there was de facto independence.