The Traditions of Liberty in the Atlantic World

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1 The Traditions of Liberty in the Atlantic World INDD 1

2 Atlantic World Europe, Africa and the Americas, Edited by Benjamin Schmidt (University of Washington) Wim Klooster (Clark University) VOLUME 32 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/aw INDD 2

3 The Traditions of Liberty in the Atlantic World Origins, Ideas and Practices Edited by Francisco Colom González Angel Rivero LEIDEN BOSTON INDD 3

4 Cover Illustration: Johann Moritz Rugendas: Study for Lima s Main Square (ca. 1843), Museo de Arte de Lima. This publication has been typeset in the multilingual Brill typeface. With over 5,100 characters covering Latin, ipa, Greek, and Cyrillic, this typeface is especially suitable for use in the humanities. For more information, please see issn isbn (hardback) isbn (e-book) Copyright 2016 by Koninklijke Brill nv, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill nv incorporates the imprints Brill, Brill Hes & De Graaf, Brill Nijhoff, Brill Rodopi and Hotei Publishing. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Koninklijke Brill nv provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers, ma 01923, usa. Fees are subject to change. This book is printed on acid-free paper INDD 4

5 Contents Acknowledgements List of Contributors vii viii Introduction 1 Francisco Colom González and Angel Rivero part 1 A Changing Colonial World 1 Brazil and the Languages of Modernity 15 Rubem Barboza Filho 2 Empire, Nation, and Republic in the Transformation of the Modern Hispanic World 40 Anthony Pagden part 2 Revolutions and Independence 3 Ibero-American Republican Humanism and the Intellectual Roots of Mexican Independence 63 Ambrosio Velasco Gómez 4 Decorum and Liberty in the Spanish-American Revolutions of Independence 83 José María Hernández 5 The American Independences and the Crisis of the Ancien Régime Republic: A Comparative View of the United States and Brazil 109 Cicero Araujo and Gabriela Nunes Ferreira INDD 5

6 vi Contents part 3 Varieties of Liberalism 6 The Tradition of Liberty in Canada at the End of the Eighteenth Century 131 Michel Ducharme 7 The Portuguese Uprising of 1820: A Forgotten Atlantic Revolution 155 Angel Rivero 8 Liberal Ideas and Patrimonial Practices in Nineteenth-Century Spanish America 169 Francisco Colom González Index INDD 6

7 Acknowledgements The inspiration for this book was conceived after a seminar on this topic at the University of London in May Susan Hodgett, Adrian Pearce and Maxine Molyneux are to be thanked for hosting the seminar at the Institute for the Study of the Americas in collaboration with the Fundación Canadá. Equally important was the contribution by the International Council of Canadian Studies, which provided the funding for the initial meeting. The subsequent work was made possible by the research project Philosophy and the Political Space (Plan Nacional I + D; Ref: FFI ), directed by Francisco Colom González at the Institute of Philosophy of the Spanish National Research Council (csic) in Madrid. Janis Taylor Harvey reviewed the final version of the texts and patiently attended the editors questions concerning English vocabulary and style INDD 7

8 List of Contributors Cicero Araujo is Professor of Political Theory at the University of São Paulo (Brazil), Researcher of the Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa, and of the Centro de Estudos de Cultura Contemporânea. He works on the field of political theory and has published different essays and articles on republicanism, democratic theory, justice and constitutional theory. Rubem Barboza Filho is Professor of Political Science at the Federal University of Juiz de For a (Brazil), and current editor of the journal Teoria e Cultura. He is the author of several articles on Ibero-American political thought and the book Tradição e Artifício. Iberismo e Barroco na formação da América (1999). Francisco Colom González is Research Professor at the Institute of Philosophy of the Spanish National Research Council. He has written extensively on the relation between intellectual history, cultural diversity and social change. Among his publications are the edited volumes Relatos de nación. La construcción de las identidades en el mundo hispánico (2005), Modernidad iberoamericana (2009), and Hacia una sociedad post-secular? La gestión pública de la nueva diversidad religiosa (2011). Michel Ducharme is Associate Professor of History at the University of British Columbia (Canada). He has widely published on Canadian political and intellectual history. He is the author of Le concept de liberté au Canada à l époque des Révolutions atlantiques (2011), which was awarded the Sir John A. Macdonald Prize of the Canadian Historical Association. José María Hernández is Professor of Political Philosophy at the Spanish Open Univeristy in Madrid (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia). He has published mainly in Spanish on Moral and Political Philosophy. He is also author of a book on Thomas Hobbes, Retrato de un dios mortal (2002), and is currently working on a book on toleration and cosmopolitanism. Gabriela Nunes Ferreira is Professor of Political Science at the Federal University of São Paulo (Brazil) and researcher of the Centro de Estudos de Política Contemporânea. She is the INDD 8

9 List Of Contributors ix author of several books and articles on Brazilian political thought and intellectual history. Anthony Pagden is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and History at the University of California Los Angeles. His research has concentrated on the relationship, cultural, political and legal, between the peoples of Europe and its overseas settlements and those of the non-european world from the Atlantic to the Pacific. He is the author of more than a dozen books, many of which have been translated into a number of European and Asian languages. His most recent publication is The Burdens of Empire (2015). Angel Rivero is Professor at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the Autonomous University of Madrid (Spain). He is recurring visiting professor at several universities in Portugal and Latin America. His last book is La constitución de la nación (2011), which won the 1808 Bicentenary Price. Ambrosio Velasco is Professor of Philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and has been visiting professor at several universities in Latin America. His most recent publications are Republicanismo y multiculturalismo (2006) and La persistencia del humanismo republicano en la formación de la Nación y el Estado en México (2009) INDD 9

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