Rhetoric of independece: bicentennial Colombia 1810 - 2010

Abstract

This paper develops a hypothesis of the economist Albert Hirschman in: The Rhetoric of Reaction, Perversity, Futility, Jeopardy (Harvard 1991) regarding the history of the Independence of Colombia. The Rhetoric of Independence extended the geographical worldview of the people of Spanish American. Finally, the paper develops a dispute with the explanations given by the conventional Colombian historiographyAlbert Hirschman; Colombia; Spanish American; Independence; political rhetoric; history; social sciences.