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040 – Source Notes



Alexandre Pétion [c. 1808], courtesy of Wikipedia
Audio editing for this episode done by Andrew Pfannkuche.

Previous Harrison Podcast Episodes referenced in this episode include:

Other sources used for this episode include:

  • Ammon, Harry. James Monroe: The Quest for National Identity. Charlottesville, VA and London: University Press of Virginia, 1999 [1971].
  • Arana, Marie. Bolivar: The Epic Life of the Man Who Liberated South America. London: Phoenix, 2014 [2013].
  • Beauvois, Frédérique. “L’indemnité de Saint-Domingue: << Dette d’indépendance >> ou <<rançon de l’esclavage>>?” French Colonial History. 10 [2009] 109-124.
  • Blackburn, Robin. “Haiti, Slavery, and the Age of the Democratic Revolution.” William and Mary Quarterly. 3rd Series, 63:4 (October 2006) 643-674.
  • Bourne, Kenneth. Britain and the Balance of Power in North America, 1815-1908. Berkeley, CA and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 1967.
  • Elliott, J H. Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492-1830. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2007 [2006].
  • Esdaile, Charles. Napoleon’s Wars: An International History. New York: Penguin, 2009 [2007].
  • Hargreaves, Mary W M. The Presidency of John Quincy Adams. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1985.
  • Hopkins, James F, ed. The Papers of Henry Clay, Volume 4: Secretary of State, 1825. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 1972.
  • Hopkins, James F; and Mary W M Hargreaves, eds. The Papers of Henry Clay, Volume 5: Secretary of State, 1826. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 1973.
  • Landry, Jerry. Harrison Podcast. 2017. http://whhpodcast.blubrry.com.
  • Malone, Dumas. Jefferson the President, First Term, 1801-1805: Jefferson and His Time, Volume Four. Boston: Little, Brown and Co, 1970.
  • Meacham, Jon. Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power. New York: Random House, 2012.
  • Munro, Dana. The Five Republics of Central America: Their Political and Economic Development and Their Relations With the United States. David Kinley, ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1918.
  • Niven, John. Martin Van Buren: The Romantic Age of American Politics. Newtown, CT: American Political Biography Press, 2012 [1983].
  • Remini, Robert V. Henry Clay: Statesman for the Union. New York: W W Norton & Co, 1991.
  • Rodríguez Ordóñez, Jaime E. “The Struggle for Dominance: The Legislature versus the Executive in Early Mexico.” The Birth of Modern Mexico, 1780-1824. Christon I Archer, ed. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007 [2003] P. 205-228.
  • Seager, Robert II, ed. The Papers of Henry Clay, Volume 7: Secretary of State, January 1, 1828-March 4, 1829. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 1982.
  • Temperley, H W V. “The Later American Policy of George Canning.” The American Historical Review. 11:4 (Jul 1906) 779-797.
  • Whitaker, Arthur P. The United States and the Independence of Latin America, 1800-1830. New York: W W Norton & Co, 1964 [1938].
  • Willsher, Kim. “France urged to repay Haiti billions paid for its independence.” The Guardian. 15 Aug 2010. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/aug/15/france-haiti-independence-debt. [Last Accessed: 8 Aug 2017].

040 – Like a Not So Good Neighbor



Joel R Poinsett by Charles Fenderich, courtesy of Wikipedia

The State Department under Henry Clay attempts to make its pivot to a focus on Latin America, but in its engagement with other nations in the Western Hemisphere, the nation’s diplomatic office stumbles and at times falls completely short. Clay struggles to deal with overzealous diplomats, turbulent situations on the ground, and British intrigues to gain influence in the region at the expense of the United States. The Western Star faces his greatest challenge yet when he assumes the role of Secretary of State and learns just how fraught with peril geopolitical relations can be. Source information for this episode can be found at whhpodcast.blubrry.com.


039 – Source Notes



Portrait of Dom Pedro, Duke of Bragança (Emperor Pedro I of Brazil) [c. 1835], courtesy of Wikipedia
Audio editing and consultation on this episode provided by Andrew Pfannkuche

The first episode of Mike Duncan’s Revolutions on the Latin American Wars of Independence can be found here.

  • Anderson, Fred. Crucible of War: The Seven Years’ War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766. New York: Alfred A Knopf, 2000.
  • Arana, Marie. Bolivar: The Epic Life of the Man Who Liberated South America. London: Phoenix, 2014 [2013].
  • Bethell, Leslie. “Politics in Brazil: From Elections without Democracy to Democracy without Citizenship.” Daedalus. 129:2 (Spr 2000) 1-27.
  • Burns, E Bradford. A History of Brazil, Third Edition. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.
  • Cao, Benito. “White Hegemony in the (Re)Birth of Brazil.” Humanities Research. 17:1 (2011) 35-57.
  • Cary, Diana Serra. “Failed First Step Toward Mexican Independence.” Military History. 17:4 (Oct 2000) 34-41.
  • DuVal, Kathleen. Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution. New York: Random House, 2016 [2015].
  • “El Grito de Dolores.” Wise Guide. Library of Congress. Sep 2009. https://www.loc.gov/wiseguide/sept09/independence.html [Last Accessed: 25 Jul 2017]
  • Elliott, J H. Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492-1830. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2007 [2006].
  • Esdaile, Charles. Napoleon’s Wars: An International History. New York: Penguin, 2009 [2007].
  • Manchester, Alan K. “The Growth of Bureaucracy in Brazil, 1808-1821.” Journal of Latin American Studies. 4:1 (May 1972) 77-83.
  • Nagel, Paul C. John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life. New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1997.
  • Paquette, Gabriel. “The Dissolution of the Spanish Atlantic Monarchy.” The Historical Journal. 52:1 [2009] 175-212.
  • Remini, Robert V. Henry Clay: Statesman for the Union. New York: W W Norton & Co, 1991.
  • Seager, Robert, II. The Papers of Henry Clay, Volume 8: Candidate, Compromiser, Whig, March 5, 1829-December 31, 1836. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 1984.
  • Whitaker, Arthur P. The United States and the Independence of Latin America, 1800-1830. New York: W W Norton & Co, 1964 [1938].

Other sources for learning about the Latin American Wars of Independence that I came across in my research but did not have a chance to consult are as follows:

  • Bethell, Leslie. From Independence to 1870. The Cambridge History of Latin America, Vol. 3. Cambridge University Press, 1987.
  • Burns, Bradford E. The Poverty of Progress: Latin America in the Nineteenth Century. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1980.
  • Chasteen, John Charles. Americanos: Latin America’s Struggle for Independence. Oxford University Press, 2008.
  • Costeloe, Michael P. Response to Revolution: Imperial Spain and the Spanish American Revolutions, 1810–1840. Cambridge University Press, 1986.
  • Dominguez, Jorge. Insurrection or Loyalty: the Breakdown of the Spanish American Empire. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1980.
  • Hamill, Hugh M. The Hidalgo Revolt: Prelude to Mexican IndependenceGainesville: University of Florida Press, 1966.
  • Harvey, Robert. Liberators: Latin America`s Struggle For Independence, 1810-1830. John Murray, London (2000).
  • Prago, Albert. The Revolutions in Spanish America. New York: The Macmillan Co, 1970
  • Walker, Charles F. Smoldering Ashes: Cuzco and the Creation of Republican Peru, 1780–1840. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1999.

039 – South of the Border



Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, courtesy of Wikipedia

Before delving into the Adams administration’s foreign policy in Latin America, this episode takes us on a very high level overview of the Latin American Wars of Independence. From the Rio de la Plata to Mexico City, and from Quito to Rio de Janeiro, we explore the hows and whys various Spanish and Portuguese Americans decided to declare independence from their respective countries. A note of caution here: I am an expert in neither the Spanish nor the Portuguese language, so I apologize in advance for any mispronunciations. They are certainly not indicative of any disrespect for the cultures or the peoples of Latin America as I have come out of the research for this episode with an increased respect for and fascination with the histories of the region. Source information for this episode can be found at http://whhpodcast.blubrry.com.