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VANEGAS USECHE, Isidro. The social bond in Nueva Granada 1780-1816. Hist. Caribe [online]. 2016, vol.11, n.28, pp.17-49. ISSN 0122-8803.  https://doi.org/10.15648/hc.28.2016.2.

The social bond is a concept that refers both to the experience men build from their coexistence as the representation they make of it. This article shows how the Neogranadina Revolution of the 1810s was a breaking point of the social bond planned by the inhabitants of the Nueva Granada Kingdom. In the monarchy system, characterized by a hierarchical inequality and a strong sense of sacredness, subject to the imperative of incorporation, and preceding the individual; all traits that based their synthesis in the monarch's figure. With the revolution, a new type of social bond emerges, whose core attributes consist of its foundation on the principle of equality, their worldly character, the need for consent, as well as its obligation.

Palabras clave : Social bond; monarchy; Nueva Granada; revolution; democracy.

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