Narratives of Dictatorship in the Age of Revolution

Moisés Prieto, "Narratives of Dictatorship in the Age of Revolution "
English | ISBN: 0367186349 | 2022 | 232 pages | PDF | 38 MB
Between the mid-eighteenth and the mid-nineteenth century, the idea of dictatorship changed drastically, leaving back the ancient Roman paradigm and opening the way to a rule with extraordinary powers and which was unlimited in time. While the French Revolution produced an acceleration of history and created new narratives of dictatorship, with Napoleon Bonaparte as its most iconic embodiment, the Latin American struggle for independence witnessed an unprecedented concentration of rulers seeking those new nations’ sovereignty through dictatorial rule.