Nueva Granada's revolution: its history and its actuality

Abstract

The text is the synthesis of an ongoing research about the meaning of the revolution in New Granada, nowadays Colombia, under the hypothesis that it involves the crossing of a monarchy to a democratic regime. Firstly, it examines the main features of the society that preceded the revolution, showing how the monarchy served as a reference to a corporative and hierarchical society of great stability. Secondly, it shows the central pivots of revolutionary mutation, underscoring how the revolution not only promoted the national making but also simultaneously started a democratic society founded on the principle of equality. Finally, it examines the place given by the Colombian generations in the national narrative to the foundational revolution.