Introduction: Dimensions of the Bolívar Myth
Chapter I. Historical Foundations
Constructions of a Nation
Elites without a Nation or a Myth
Discourses of the Nation, Slave Revolts, and Caste Society
Caudillos and Bolívar Revenants: Nineteenth-Century Experiments with the State
The Conservative and the Revolutionary Bolívar in the “Age of Extremes”
Chapter II. Simón Bolívar: The Man and the Myth
The Glorious Bolívar Family
In Search of the Ancestors
The Bolívars’ Fortune
The Conservative-Romantic Bolívar Myth
From the “Marxist” to the “Democratic” Bolívar and Back
Chapter III. Excursus: “Humboldt and Bolívar”— On a Conversation That May Never Have Taken Place
Postscript, April 2012
Instead of a Conclusion: The “Chavist Bolívar”
Notes
Select Bibliography of English Texts on Simón Bolívar
Works by Michael Zeuske on Bolívar, Humboldt, Miranda, and Independence