HIST 3659 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Debt Bondage, Economic Liberalism, French Revolution
Document Summary
The spanish monarchy held a tight colonial grip on latin american countries causing it to be quite backwards. The main freedom for the individual was to free them from powers such as the church. The underpinnings of the american dream were ideas that started to engage with citizens of mexico. In mexico, education was suppose to be the emancipation of individuals and create new citizens. But the mexican regime did not want to invest in education and left it mainly in control of the. France has outside influence on latin american nations. Liberalism was born from the french revolution, and was an outside influence on latin nations such as mexico. Liberalism was the modernizing ethos to participate in the world. Elites that held powers embraced the doctrines of economic liberalism, but determined that the country was not fit to embrace political liberalism. The challenge was how to change the inhabitants of the nation into.
