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The 20 pages that link to Latin American wars of independence, each with the reason it gives.

• Spanish colonization of the AmericasRelated: These wars brought the colonial period to an end across the mainland.

• Napoleonic WarsRelated: Napoleon’s intervention in Spain and Portugal destabilized imperial authority and helped trigger independence movements.

• Haitian RevolutionCompared with: Most independence movements did not overthrow slavery as completely or as early as Haiti’s revolution.

• Anti-imperialismBroader topic: These independence movements challenged European imperial authority across a continent.

• Monroe DoctrineRelated: Newly independent states raised U.S. concern about European efforts to restore colonial rule.

• Chilean War of IndependenceNarrower topic: Chile’s war formed one part of the larger collapse of Spain’s American empire.

• Latin American debt crisisBroader topic: New states inherited wartime disruption and faced immediate costs of establishing sovereignty.

• Latin American literatureRelated: Independence movements gave rise to new national literatures and debates about identity.

• Latin AmericaBroader topic: These wars created many of the independent states that now make up the region.

• CaudilloNarrower topic: Caudillismo grew out of the political upheavals that followed independence from Iberian empires.

• CaudillismoNarrower topic: These conflicts form the wider setting for caudillismo's rise.

• Napoleonic eraRelated: Napoleon’s intervention in Spain and Portugal destabilized Iberian rule and opened paths to independence.

• Imagined communityBroader topic: These struggles produced new states whose populations had to be imagined as national communities.

• National liberation movementBroader topic: They linked national sovereignty to the collapse of European empires in the Americas.

• Latin American identityRelated: New republics turned political independence into a question of who belonged to the nation.

• National liberationRelated: They established independent states through struggles against European empires.

• History of Latin AmericaBroader topic: These wars dismantled colonial empires and created new sovereign states.

• History of the AmericasBroader topic: These wars remade colonial territories into independent states across the region.

• History of HaitiRelated: Haiti’s support for Simón Bolívar linked its revolution to later independence struggles.

• History of South AmericaNarrower topic: South American independence formed part of this continent-wide upheaval.