AUL LibGuides: Military Leaders: Bolivar, Simon

Bolivar, Simon

Simon Bolivar (1783-1830) was a South American general, statesman, and revolutionary leader famous for bringing political independence to six present day nations. Called the Liberator, he is considered to be the greatest military figure of South America.

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Bolivar: American Liberator by Marie Arana
Call Number: 92 B689aa
Publication Date: 2014
Bolivar: The Liberator of Latin America by Robert Harvey
Call Number: 92 B689h
Publication Date: 2011
Simon Bolivar: A Life by John Lynch
Call Number: 980.02092 L987s
Publication Date: 2006
Simón Bolívar's Quest for Glory by Richard W. Slatta and Jane Lucas De Grummond
Call Number: 92 B689sc
Publication Date: 2003
Ebook available: Ebscohost
The Liberator by Augusto Mijares
Call Number: 92 B689mb 1983
Publication Date: 1983

Bolivar and Democracy by Jose Felix Diaz Bermudez.
Americas 62, no. 5:51 September-October 2010.
Simon Bolivar and the Spectre of Pardocracia: Jose Padilla in Post-Independence Cartagena by Aline Helg.
Journal of Latin American Studies 35:447-471 August 2003.
Simon Bolivar, the Sun of Justice and the Amerindian Virgin: Andean Conceptions of the Patria in Nineteenth-Century Potosi by Tristan Platt.
Journal of Latin American Studies 25, no. 1:159-185 February 1993.
Simon Bolivar and the Spanish American Revolutions by John Lynch.
History Today 33, no. 7:5-10 July 1983.

The Chilean Republic in the Face of Bolivar's Expansionism (1823-1828) by Daniel Gutierrez Ardila.
Bulletin of Latin American Research 36, no. 3:313-325 July 2017.
Masculine Virtues and Feminine Passions: Gender and Race in the Republicanism of Simón Bolívar by Sarah C. Chambers.
Hispanic Research Journal 7, no. 1:21-40 March 2006.