colonial Latin America

Here have 5 essay questions, choose ONE to answer!!! choose the one that you think are interesting and familiar with!!!
1. To what extent

were slaves in colonial Latin America able to create their own culture?

2. To what do you attribute the growth of Buenos Aires as a major

American city between 1750 and 1810?

3. To what extent was the Hidalgo uprising of 1810 a war of national liberation?

4. “The roots of

Spanish American Independence lay in the Bourbon reforms and the rebellions and revolts that they provoked in the eighteenth century”.
Discuss.

5. “Independence was a present from Portugal.” Is this a fair evaluation of Brazilian Independence?
MUST USE THIS source:

Matthew

Restall & Kris Lane, Latin America in Colonial Times (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011)
For other sources use books and journal

articles, do use internet sources!!!

The principal English language journals containing relevant articles are:

1. The Americas

2. Latin

American Research Review

3. Journal of Latin American Studies

4. Bulletin Latin American Research

5. Hispanic American Historical Review

Try to use these journals for your bibliography!!!
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