Chateaubriand at the Crossways: A Character Study. Analyzing the Non-Literary Sources of Chateaubriand’S Opinions as Expressed in the Essai Sur Les Révolutions

Presents an inquiry into the relation between society and government in Central America and how the changes in rule and ruling philosophy were introduced, accepted, and resisted. The study specifically examines the tradition of Amerindia as it was transformed by Hapsburg institutions and evolved into a tradition of Central America which came under attack in the enlightened age and fell to the attack of a nineteenth0century nativist movement.