Book Review: Our Sister Republics
Book Review: Our Sister Republics
By
Russell Crandall
A new history looks at how U.S. revolutionaries supported democratic movements in the hemisphere.
This article is adapted from AQ's print issue on youth in Latin America
Caitlin Fitz’s Our Sister Republics: The United States in an Age of American Revolutions sheds light on the ardent kinship that U.S. politicians, journalists and everyday folks felt toward Latin America’s independence movements in the 19th century.
Even before the British crown’s colonial subjects wrote the Declaration of Independence, Americans were...
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