Chan Kongsang, SBS, MBE, PMW, General Overviews Mexico Central America Caribbean South America. ChicanoLatino Studies Spanish History, and CultureSpanish and Latin American Literature. MRC is a diversified global media company with operations in filmed entertainment, television programming and original digital content. The company is the industry. MustWatch Scandinavian TV Shows. Over the past five years, Scandinavia has entered a golden age of sorts in television. Thats not to say that their television. Videotapes in the Media Resources Center, UC Berkeley. General OverviewsMiscellaneous. Alonsos Dream Alonso lives in the Highland of Chenalho, where his community is filled with conflict due to the standoff between the Zapatista National Liberation Army that is demanding equal rights for the indigenous people of Mexico, and the Mexican Army. The film focuses on the impact the revolution and paramilitary violence have had on the daily lives of Mayan peasants in Chiapas, Chenalho and Acteal, Mexico. VideoC 7. 89. 7 Description from Icarus Films catalog. Americas. It describes the art, architecture, and intellectual achievements of these people as well as their downfall to the Spanish Conquistadors. VideoC 6. 40. 2The Americas in the Revolutionary Era. Lectures by Marshall C. Watch The Evangelist Download Full more. From Lexington and Concord to Yorktown Lecture 6. Radicalism of the American Revolution Lecture 7. Slave rebellion in St. Dominigue Lecture 8. Count_to_90.jpeg' alt='Borgen Season 3 Online Free English' title='Borgen Season 3 Online Free English' />Haitian Revolution. Watch Everything You Want Online Hoyts. From Lexington and Concord to Yorktown Covers the fighting during the American Revolution from Lexington and Concord to the British surrender at Yorktown in 1. For some, it was a conservative effort by planters to sieze power and control the development of a society already divided between slaves and free men, white and non whites, and the landed and landless. For others, it represented a radical break with a monarchical past and a move towards a republic and democratic politics. Dominigue The Haitain revolution is the only successful slave rebellion in the Americas. This section and the next analyze the only case of slaves rising up, taking power, and creating an independent nation. Also looks at the French revolution and its influence on Saint Domingue, a classic example of the sugar and slave plantation complex in the Americas. Haitian Revolution In 1. St. Domingue, in a war for their freedom. Amidst the violence, a group of black leaders emerged, the most famous the former slave Toussaint LOuverture. Over more than a decade the slaves defeated invading armies from France, England, and Spain, but the black leadership eventually turned against itself in a struggle for control of the revolution. Seeds of the rebellion in Spanish America Lecture 1. Napoleon invades Spain and Portugal Lecture 1. Francisco de Miranda the precursor Lecture 1. Dpq078LrGVE/hqdefault.jpg' alt='Borgen Season 3 Online Free English' title='Borgen Season 3 Online Free English' />Simon Bolivar the liberator. Seeds of the rebellion in Spanish America Looks at a series of wars for independence in Spanish America. By 1. 75. 0, the Spanish Empire in the Americas had been in place for two and a half centuries. Watch Dragon Inn 4Shared. In the mid 1. 8th century, the Bourbon dynasty embarked on a series of reforms to revitalize the Spanish Empire which became the source of grievances by the Creoles and their motivation to break with Spain. Napoleon invades Spain and Portugal The Napoleonic wars and in particular Napoleons invasion of Spain, triggered a series of mostly failed wars for independence in Spanish America after 1. The defeat of Napoleon and the return of Fernando VII in 1. Spanish America that were largely successful. Francisco de Miranda, the precursor Looks at the dramatic life of Francisco de Miranda whose life and work foreshadowed the generation of revolutonary leaders in Latin America who would lead the wars for independence. He became the early mentor of the most famous of these liberators Simon Bolivar. Simon Boliver, the liberator This segment looks closely at the life of the revolutionary figure, Simon Bolivar, from his birth in Venezuela in 1. Once in power, Bolivar was never able to provide the stability needed by the new republics. He eventually returned to Europe, committing his life to the liberation of his fellow Americans. VideoC MM2. 85. Lecture 1. Liberating Northern South America. San Martin and Argentine independence. Bernardo OHiggins and Chile. Liberting Peru. Liberating Northern South America With the imprisonment and eventual death of Miranda, Simon Boliver assumed the mantle of the leader of the South American independence movement. The liberation of Venezuela and the rest of northern South America, including Colombia, and Ecuador, proved to be a bloody and drawn out struggle that would last more than a decade. San Martin and Argentine independence Jose de San Martin is the counterpart of Simon Bolivar in southern South America. This segment focuses on the process of independence in Argentina and Uruguay and the figure of San Martin and his leadership of the armies that liberated southern South America. Bernardo OHiggins and Chile Looks at the military hero Bernardo OHiggins and his emergence as a leader in Chile after 1. Follows the virtual civil war in Chile as Creoles vied for control and Spaniards attempted to crush the moves toward independence. Concludes with OHiggins flight to Argentina, his relationship with Jose de San Martin, and the heroic march of their combined forces through the Andes to liberate Chile from the Spanish. Liberating Peru The liberation of Peru, the great Spanish stronghold in South America, commencing in 1. Simon Bolivar from the North and Jose de San Martin from the South. Bolivar led the final assult liberating Peru and upper Peru Bolivia with the assistance of his lieutenant, Jose Antonio de Sucre. VideoC MM2. 86. Lecture 1. Mexico race and class warfare. Mexico empire and chaos Lecture 1. Brazil a royal revolution Failed movements in the Caribbean. This segments looks at the first stage, a race and class war in 1. Two priests, Miguel Hidalgo and Jose Maria Morelos, led an uprising of poor people, largely Indians, and threatened to annihilate the upper class whites, who closed ranks to defeat the insurgency and restore order. Mexico, empire and chaos Events in Europe sparked the second war for independence in Mexico when the supporters of a liberal constitution triumphed in Spain in 1. A so called. Crowned Emperor Agustin I, he was quickly deposed and Mexico slid into a half century of political chaos. Brazil a royal revolution Escaping the Napoleonic Wars, the Braganza royal family of Portugal settled in Rio de Janeiro and ruled its vast empire from Brazil. King Joao VI elevated Brazil to the status of a kingdom, diffusing most desires for separation and independence. When Joao returned to Portugal in 1. Pedro, remained in Brazil, assumed the leadership of the movement to separate from Portugal, and declared Brazils independence in 1. Failed movements in the Caribbean Some of the American colonies did not achieve independence in the age of revolutions. This segment looks at Cuba and Puerto Rico, two colonies in Spanish America that failed to achieve their independence. Also examines the troubled case of the Dominican Republic, a nation that had to fight several times, first against Spain and then Haiti, to achieve its independence. The British West Indies and Canada Lecture 2. The strange case of Paraguay Lecture 2. Revolutions made and unmade Lecture 2. Aftermath of independence. Both regions experienced a gradual transition to independence that presents a fascinating comparison to both the British North America and Latin American experience. Strange case of Paraguay When the first set of wars for independence broke out in the La Plata region in 1. Jose Gaspar de Francia, emerged as the authoritarian leader of independence and the new nation. Unlike the rest of Latin America, in the aftermath of independence, Paraguay turned inward and isolated itself from the outside world until the mid 1. Revolutions made and unmade This segment looks at the. In particular, focuses on how the differing colonial traditions political, economic and cultural shaped the revolutionary paths and the outcomes of the wars for independence. Aftermath of independence Examines the larger vision of the Americas in the aftermath of the wars for independence, beginning with the key concepts of revolution and emphasizing the complex nature of the different wars for independence, as well as their common patterns.