El balance de la independencia latinoamericana

Resumen

This study is a historiographical overview of the literature of the Latin American wars of
independence. It analyses the gains and losses, and poses the question: „has the world advanced" in the
200 years of independence? The first part of the article concentrates on the events of the wars of
independence and the developments in the 19th century focusing on the works of Francisco Morales
Padrón, Luis Navarro Garcia, Jose' Carlos Maridtegui, and the approach of the German historian
Manfred Kossok. In the secondpart the author presents the question of subdesarrollo and dependencia. He
discusses the different interpretations for insufficient progress from the positivist viewpoints to the assessment
of the economists of the CEPAL. The novelty of this part is that it presents the results of the comparative
analyses (Wittman, Pack, Zimdnyi) published in Hungarian historiography in the 1960s-1970s that
revealed the similarities between the progress in Central-Eastern Europe and Latin America.