A new history of modern Latin America /

"This comprehensive text provides a detailed narrative history of each of the nations of Latin America, from Chile and Argentina in the South to Mexico and Cuba in the north. It begins with the Wars of Independence in the early nineteenth century and stretches to the democratic turn in the twen...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Clayton, Lawrence A. (Autor), Conniff, Michael L. (Autor), Gauss, Susan M., 1968- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
Edición:Third edition.
Temas:
1800-1999
HISTORY > Latin America > General.
HISTORY > Latin America > South America.
Latin America > History > 19th century.
Latin America > History > 20th century.
Amérique latine > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Amérique latine > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Latin America
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Background to independence
  • The coming of independence to South America
  • The independence movements: on to victory
  • The aftermath of independence
  • The search for political order: 1830s-1850s
  • Order and progress
  • Citizen and nation on the road to progress
  • The development of nations: Mexico and Central America
  • The development of nations: South America
  • Inventing Latin America
  • Changing worlds and new empires
  • Early populism in South America
  • Dictators of the Caribbean basin
  • Divergent paths to modern nationhood: Panama, Brazil, and Peru
  • Early revolutionaries: Mexico, Brazil, and Nicaragua
  • The 1930s: years of depression and upheaval
  • Latin America in World War II
  • The classic populists
  • Mexico since World War II
  • Colombian conundrum
  • Caribbean basin countercurrents
  • The Cuban revolution and its aftermath
  • The national security states
  • Democratization and conflict in the late twentieth century
  • Latin America in the twenty-first century.

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