As guerras de independência, as práticas sociais e o código de elite na América do século XIX: leituras da correspondência bolivariana

Abstract

Produced between 1799 and 1830, Simón Bolívar’s epistolary allows to tie the writing of letters, the memory and the historiography. This article intends to reach two objectives: 1) to display the narrative epistolar project, to considering the cited bonds; 2) to evaluate the social practices that make possible, simultaneously, the formation of an affective commu- nity between officers, the allotment of a elite code and the construction of a memory for the rising South American republics.