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A Collection of Pamphlets on the History of Bolivia in the Second Half of The Nineteenth Century (1900) online in Spanish; Crabtree, John, et al. The Great Tin Crash: Bolivia and the World Tin Market (1987) excerpt; Dangl, Benjamin. The Five Hundred Year Rebellion: Indigenous Movements and the Decolonization of History in Bolivia (AK Press, 2019).
After 1700, only small amounts of bullion were shipped from Upper Peru to Spain. In the mid-18th century, Spanish control over South America began to weaken. In 1780 the Inca descendant, Túpac Amaru II led nearly 60,000 natives in a battle against the Spaniards near the Peruvian city of Cuzco.
The Spanish Empire, [ b ] sometimes referred to as the Hispanic Monarchy[ c ] or the Catholic Monarchy, [ d ][ 4 ][ 5 ][ 6 ] was a colonial empire that existed between 1492 and 1976. [ 7 ][ 8 ] In conjunction with the Portuguese Empire, it ushered in the European Age of Discovery. It achieved a global scale, [ 9 ] controlling vast portions of ...
On December 27, 1879, a coup led by Colonel Eliodoro Camacho overthrew Daza, who fled to Europe with a sizable portion of Bolivia's treasury. The attempt of General Narciso Campero (1880–84) to come to the aid of Peru, Bolivia's war ally, was unsuccessful, and Chile defeated the combined armies in May 1880.
e. The Spanish colonization of the Americas began in 1493 on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic) after the initial 1492 voyage of Genoese mariner Christopher Columbus under license from Queen Isabella I of Castile. These overseas territories of the Spanish Empire were under the jurisdiction of Crown of ...
In 2011, approximately 250,000 Bolivian citizens resided in Spain. [13] Most Bolivians left their country of origin to Spain to escape poverty and political instability. In 2011, Bolivian nationals in Spain sent over US$1 billion in remittances to Bolivia. [13] In 2014, there were approximately 10,000 Spanish citizens residing in Bolivia. [14]
The Spanish Empire (yellow) in 1800. Spanish America refers to the Spanish territories in the Americas during the Spanish colonization of the Americas. The term "Spanish America" was specifically used during the territories' imperial era between 15th and 19th centuries. To the end of its imperial rule, Spain called its overseas possessions in ...
The Iberian Union in 1598, under Philip II, King of Spain and Portugal. Beginning in 1499, the people and natural resources of South America were repeatedly exploited by foreign conquistadors, first from Spain and later from Portugal. These competing colonial nations claimed the land and resources as their own and divided it into colonies. [56]