Данная книга рассказывает о войне за независимость американских колоний Испании, которая охватила в первой четверти XIX столетия обширную территорию от Техаса до Патагонии и привела к возникновению на развалинах испанской колониальной имеперии самостоятельных государств.

В книге доктора исторических наук М. С. Альперовича рассказано о том, как народы Латинской Америки в результате ожесточённой, кровопролитной борьбы изгнали колонизаторов и создали свои независимые государства. Читатель познакомится с революционными событиями 1810–1826 гг. в Венесуэле и Новой Гранаде, в Перу и Чили, на Ла-Плате и в Мексике. Он узнает о бурной жизни и кипучей деятельности венесуэльского патриота Миранды – участника Великой французской революции и борьбы за независимость английских колоний в Северной Америке; о переходах армий Боливара и Сан-Мартина через неприступные горные вершины Анд и об их блестящих победах над испанскими войсками; о своеобразной диктатуре доктора Франсии, на протяжении многих лет проводившего политику изоляции Парагвая от внешнего мира; о трагической судьбе мужественных борцов против колониализма – мексиканских сельских священников Идальго и Морелоса, которые были отлучены от церкви, брошены в подземелья инквизиции и казнены.

From 1741 until Alaska was sold to the United States in 1867, the Russian empire claimed territory and peoples in North America. In this book, Ilya Vinkovetsky examines how Russia governed its only overseas colony, illustrating how the colony fit into and diverged from the structures developed in the otherwise contiguous Russian empire. Russian America was effectively transformed from a remote extension of Russia's Siberian frontier penetrated mainly by Siberianized Russians into an ostensibly modern overseas colony operated by Europeanized Russians. Under the rule of the Russian-American Company, the colony was governed on different terms than the rest of the empire, a hybrid of elements carried over from Siberia and imported from rival colonial systems. Its economic, labor, and social organization reflected Russian hopes for Alaska, as well as the numerous limitations, such as its vast territory and pressures from its multiethnic residents, it imposed. This approach was particularly evident in Russian strategies to convert the indigenous peoples of Russian America into loyal subjects of the Russian Empire. Vinkovetsky looks closely at Russian efforts to acculturate the native peoples, including attempts to predispose them to be more open to the Russian political and cultural influence through trade and Russian Orthodox Christianity. Bringing together the history of Russia, the history of colonialism, and the history of contact between native peoples and Europeans on the American frontier, this work highlights how the overseas colony revealed the Russian Empire's adaptability to models of colonialism.

This intensively researched urban study dissects Russian Imperial and early Soviet rule in Islamic Central Asia from the diverse viewpoints of tsarist functionaries, Soviet bureaucrats, Russian workers, and lower-class women as well as Muslim notables and Central Asian traders. Jeff Sahadeo's stimulating analysis reveals how political, social, cultural, and demographic shifts altered the nature of this colonial community from the tsarist conquest of 1865 to 1923, when Bolshevik authorities subjected the region to strict Soviet rule. In addition to placing the building of empire in Tashkent within a broader European context, Sahadeo's account makes an important contribution to understanding the cultural impact of empire on Russia's periphery.