The Traditions of Liberty in the Atlantic World ― Origins, Ideas and Practices

This volume puts together notions of political liberty that arose in the English, Portuguese and Spanish Atlantic world, commencing with their inception in the colonial period, following with the independence of the Americas and the subsequent efforts to build constitutional order.

Francisco Colom Gonzalez, Ph.D., is Research Professor at the Spanish National Research Council. He has authored and edited several monographs on political theory and intellectual history, includingRelatos de nacion. La construccion de las identidades en el mundo hispanico (2005).Angel Rivero, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Autonomous University of Madrid. He has extensively written on political philosophy, ideologies and nationalism. His latest book isLa constitucion de la nacion (2011), which won the 1808 Bicentenary Award. Contributors: Cicero Araujo, Rubem Barboza Filho, Francisco Colom Gonzalez, Michel Ducharme, Jose Maria Hernandez Losada, Gabriela Nunes Ferreira, Anthony Pagden, Angel Rivero, and Ambrosio Velasco