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History of Modern Latin America: 1800 to the Present [Kietas viršelis]

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(Union College, New York, USA)
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A History of Modern Latin America: 1800 to the Present examines the diverse and interlocking experiences of people of indigenous, African, and European backgrounds from the onset of independence until today.

Illustrates and analyzes the major and minor events that shape history, the triumphs and defeats, and the everyday lives of people of varied classes and racial and ethnic backgrounds Intersperses accounts of the lives of prominent figures with those of ordinary people Emphasizes gender's role in influencing political and economic change and shaping cultural identity

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"Nothing is more important than to communicate up-to-date scholarship to students in a lucid and reasonable manner. It seems to me that [ this] textbook is remarkably successful in both these respects." ( The New York Times , 1 October 2012)

List of Figures
xi
List of Maps
xiii
Preface xiv
Acknowledgments xvii
Cover image xix
Introduction to the Land and Its People
1(22)
Geography
2(1)
People
2(4)
Economies
6(2)
Politics
8(4)
Culture and Entertainment
12(8)
Latin America: Past and Present
20(3)
Latin America in 1790
23(26)
Colonial Background
24(4)
Power and Privilege
28(1)
Land
29(3)
Colonial Administration
32(1)
Enlightened Monarchy
33(2)
The Agents of the Reform
35(2)
Disorder and Rebellion
37(2)
Discontent and Disorder in Brazil
39(1)
Changing Gender Roles
40(2)
On the Road to Independence
42(1)
Nationalism and American Culture
42(4)
Conclusion
46(3)
Competing Notions of Freedom
49(32)
Five Roads to Independence
50(1)
African Slavery in the Americas
51(4)
Slavery and the Countryside
55(1)
Slavery in the Cities
55(2)
Treatment and Punishment
57(1)
Slavery and the Church
58(1)
African Medicine and Religious Practices
59(1)
Resistance and Rebellion
60(2)
The Sugar Colony of Saint-Domingue
62(2)
The Slave Revolt
64(2)
The Revolution Betrayed
66(1)
Brazil's Independent Empire
67(1)
Independence in Mexico
68(2)
South American Independence
70(4)
Post-independence Changes in Racial and Gender Status
74(1)
The Last Holdout of Slavery in Spanish America
75(2)
Latin America in a Changing World Order
77(1)
Conclusion
78(3)
Fragmented Nationalisms
81(24)
Searching for Political and Economic Unity
81(1)
New World ``Feudalism''
82(4)
Post-independence Politics
86(1)
Argentina and the Tyrants
87(2)
Populist Caudillismo: Paraguay and Bolivia
89(2)
After Caudillismo
91(2)
Race, Race Mixture, and Liberalism
93(3)
Gender and Liberalism
96(2)
Intersections of Gender, Race, and Class
98(3)
Nationalism
101(1)
Conclusion
101(4)
Latin America's Place in the Commodity Chain
105(30)
The Guano Boom
106(2)
Nitrates in Chile
108(1)
Sugar and Coffee
109(2)
The Growth of Sao Paulo
111(2)
Colombian Coffee
113(1)
The Rubber Boom
114(1)
Expanding Exports
115(2)
Mexico and US Expansionism
117(1)
The North American Invasion
118(2)
General Lopez de Santa Anna
120(1)
The New Age of Imperialism
121(1)
Central America and the Panama Canal
122(3)
Ecuador and the ``Panama'' Hat
125(3)
Independence at Last? Cuba and Puerto Rico
128(5)
Conclusion
133(2)
Immigration, and Urban and Rural Life
135(22)
Asian Immigration
136(1)
European Immigration
137(1)
The Southern Cone
138(3)
Life on the Pampas
141(1)
British Investment
142(2)
The Changing Cultural Landscape
144(3)
Urban Renewal
147(2)
Mexico and Benito Juarez
149(1)
French Invasions
150(1)
The Rise of Porfirio Diaz
151(1)
Intellectual Theories: Positivism and Eugenics
152(2)
Conclusion
154(3)
Revolution from Countryside to City: Mexico
157(18)
The Porfiriato
158(2)
Opposition to the Porfiriato
160(1)
Constitutional Opposition
161(2)
Madero Assassinated
163(1)
US Intervention
163(1)
Women in Combat
164(1)
Carranza as President
165(4)
The Constitution of 1917
169(1)
Aftermath of Struggle
170(1)
Agrarian Revolts in Latin America
171(3)
Conclusion
174(1)
The Left and the Socialist Alternative
175(18)
Socialism on the World Stage
175(1)
Social Reform and the Middle Class
176(1)
Anarchism, Socialism, and Anarcho-syndicalism
177(1)
Women in the Workforce
178(1)
Colombia: Resistance to the United Fruit Company
179(2)
The Labor Movement
181(1)
Socialism and the Arts
182(1)
Tenentes Revolt and Brazilian Communism
183(2)
Modern Art Week in Brazil
185(2)
Women in the Arts
187(2)
Socialism vs. Capitalism
189(1)
Jose Carlos Mariategui
190(1)
Conclusion
191(2)
Populism and the Struggle for Change
193(20)
Getulio Vargas and ``New State'' Politics
195(2)
Juan Peron and Peronism
197(3)
Peron's Fall from Grace
200(1)
Politics Engendered
201(2)
Revolutionizing Mexico: Lazaro Cardenas
203(1)
Populism in Colombia and Peru
204(2)
Central America
206(4)
The Long Twentieth Century
210(1)
Conclusion
211(2)
Post-World War II Struggles for Sovereignty
213(22)
World War II
213(2)
Temporary Worker Program
215(2)
Post-war Latin America
217(2)
Military vs. Civilian Rule
219(2)
The Absolute Dictator: Rafael Trujillo
221(4)
Americas in Transition: Guatemala and Bolivia
225(1)
Guatemala
225(2)
Revolution in Bolivia
227(2)
Mining and the Voice of Bolivian Activism
229(2)
The Revolution in Decline
231(1)
Conclusion
232(3)
Cuba: Guerrillas Take Power
235(16)
``History Will Absolve Me''
236(1)
Causes for Discontent
237(1)
The Revolutionary War
238(3)
The Special Period in Peacetime
241(1)
Cuba and the World
242(1)
Ernesto ``Che'' Guevara
243(3)
What Difference Did the Revolution Make?
246(2)
Democratic Shortcomings
248(1)
Conclusion
249(2)
Progress and Reaction
251(26)
Modernization and Progress
251(1)
Brazil's Military Coup
252(2)
The National Security State
254(1)
Latin America's Youth Movement
255(1)
Mexico
255(1)
The Massacre at Tlateloco
256(1)
The Chilean Road to Socialism
257(2)
The Chilean Road to Socialism Dead Ends
259(1)
Urban Guerrilla Warfare: Uruguay
260(2)
Urban Guerrilla Warfare: Argentina
262(2)
Dictatorship and State Terror
264(2)
Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo
266(1)
The War of the Malvinas/Falkland Islands
267(2)
Movements for Revolutionary Change: Peru
269(1)
Sendero Luminoso, the Shining Path
270(2)
Women and Shining Path
272(1)
Repression and Fujimori
273(1)
Conclusion
274(3)
Revolution and Its Alternatives
277(28)
A Changing Catholic Church
278(1)
Marxism and Catholic Humanism
279(2)
The Opposition
281(1)
The Somozas versus Sandino: the Next Generation
281(1)
The Sandinista Opposition
282(3)
Sandinistas in Power
285(3)
United States and the Sandinistas
288(1)
Effects of the Contra War
289(2)
Central America in Turmoil: El Salvador and Guatemala
291(1)
Politics of Repression in El Salvador
292(1)
The Opposition
293(1)
The Fighting Ends
294(1)
Guatemala: The Bloodiest War
295(2)
The Evangelical Alternative
297(2)
Colombia: The Longest War
299(1)
The War on Drugs in Latin America
300(3)
Conclusion
303(2)
The Americas in the Twenty-first Century
305(30)
The Washington Consensus
305(1)
Brazil and the Workers' Alternative
306(2)
The Workers' Party in Power
308(1)
Bolivia: Twenty-first-century Indigenismo
309(1)
Venezuela and Hugo Chavez
310(2)
The Bolivarian Mission
312(1)
Chavez and ``the Pink Tide''
313(1)
Complicating Social Ties
314(1)
Chile's Transition to Democracy
315(2)
New Social Movements
317(2)
Movements for Racial and Gender Equality
319(1)
Women and Politics
320(2)
The Latin Americanization of the United States
322(3)
Immigration and Free Trade
325(2)
Opponents Confront Free Trade
327(3)
Immigration and Neoliberalism
330(1)
Sharing the Environment and the Cost of Stewardship
331(4)
Notes 335(6)
Glossary 341(4)
Further Reading 345(14)
Index 359
Teresa A. Meade is Florence B. Sherwood Professor of History and Culture at Union College, New York. She is the author of Civilizing Rio: Reform and Resistance in a Brazilian City (1997), A Brief History of Brazil, 2nd edition (2009), and co-editor of the Blackwell Companion to Gender History (2004) and Science, Medicine and Cultural Imperialism (1991). She has written widely on Latin America, and on women and gender history.