New History of Modern Latin America by Clayton, Lawrence A. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Title Copyright Contents Preface Colonial Prologue

The Reconquest of Spain The Americas The Conquest The Developing Colony The Mature Colony Conclusions and Issues

Part I: Independence and Turmoil

1 Background to Independence

Causes of the Wars of Independence Mexico: The Powder Keg Explodes Conclusions and Issues

2 The Coming of Independence to South America

Venezuela The Southern Cone Movements Spain Counterrevolution Conclusions and Issues

3 The Independence Movements: On to Victory

Awakening of World Interest Bolívar Frees Colombia and Venezuela Completion of Rio de la Plata’s Independence San Martín, O’Higgins, and the Liberation of Chile Fortress Peru: The Last Royalist Bastion Mexico: Marching to Different Drummers Central America Follows the Leader Final Patriot Victory in Peru and Bolivia Brazil Takes Its Own Path to Independence U.S. Recognition and the Monroe Doctrine Conclusions and Issues

4 The Aftermath of Independence

New Forms of Legitimacy Economic Independence New Ways and Old Women and Family after the Wars of Independence New Nations, New Races Liberalism and the Enduring Indian Nations Conclusions and Issues

5 The Search for Political Order: 1830s–1850s

The Background and Nature of Caudillismo The Age of Caudillos in the Southern Cone Caudillos of the Andes Caudillos of Mexico and Central America Caribbean Paths Conclusions and Issues

Part II: Nation-Building

6 Order and Progress

The Positivists Economic Transformation Conclusions and Issues

7 Citizen and Nation on the Road to Progress

The Peoples of Latin America Land, Labor, and Indians The End of Slavery Women and Gender in the Liberal Era Life in the Country Life in the City Religion and the Church Conclusions and Issues

8 The Development of Nations: Mexico and Central America

Mexico Central America Conclusions and Issues

9 The Development of Nations: South America

Venezuela Colombia Ecuador Peru Bolivia Chile Argentina Uruguay and Paraguay Brazil Conclusions and Issues

10 Inventing Latin America

Mental Emancipation Inventing Traditions Modernismo Conclusions and Issues

11 Changing Worlds and New Empires

The Emerging Colossus to the North Commerce and Pan-Americanism The Cuban-Spanish-American War Conclusions and Issues

Part III: Reform and Revolution

Latin America in Global Perspective Hemispheric Visions in 1900 12 Early Populism in South America

The Populists The Reform Populists Gender and Reform Conclusions and Issues

13 Dictators of the Caribbean Basin

Evolving U.S. Influence Non-Intervention Policy in the 1920s Conclusions and Issues

14 Divergent Paths to Modern Nationhood: Panama, Brazil, and Peru

Panama, Brazil, and Peru Panama, the U.S. Canal, and the Limits of Sovereignty Brazil’s First Republic Nation-State and Populism in Peru in the 1920s Conclusions and Issues

15 Early Revolutionaries: Mexico, Brazil, and Nicaragua

Defining Revolution The Mexican Revolution The Revolutionaries Uneasy Twenties Conclusions and Issues

Part IV: Confronting Global Challenges

16 The 1930s: Years of Depression and Upheaval

Impact of the Great Depression Economic Nationalism and Social Reform Evolving U.S. Policy in the Caribbean Basin The Classic Dictators Batista and Trujillo Conclusions and Issues

17 Latin America in World War II

Inter-American Defense New Economic Paradigms: From ECLAC to Neoliberalism Conclusions and Issues

18 The Classic Populists

Classic Populism Andean Populists Central American Populists Conclusions and Issues

Part V: Dictatorship, Development, and Democracy

19 Mexico since World War II

Miguel Alemán and the Generation of Lawyer Presidents Economic Crises and the Technocratic Turn The Ouster of the PRI Conclusions and Issues

20 Colombian Conundrum

La Violencia The Conservative Era National Front, 1958–1974 Beyond the National Front Economy and Society Colombia in the World Conclusions and Issues

21 Caribbean Basin Countercurrents

Storm Warnings Offshore The Figueres Rebellion Guatemalan Revolution of 1954 Duvalier Dynasty in Haiti Panama in the Spotlight Conclusions and Issues

22 The Cuban Revolution and Its Aftermath

Prelude to Revolution Ernesto “Che” Guevara Global Impact of the Cuban Revolution Dominican Intervention Sandino’s Revenge in Nicaragua Conclusions and Issues

23 The National Security States

New Military Missions Conclusions and Issues

24 Democratization and Conflict in the Late Twentieth Century

Recession and Neoliberalism Democracy and Neopopulism Results of Democratization Peace, Democracy, and Neoliberalism in Central America and the Caribbean Drugs and the Challenge to Democracy in Central America Dictatorship, Invasion, and the U.S. Canal Cuba and the End of the Cold War Conclusions and Issues

25 Latin America in the Twenty-First Century

Democracy and the Turn to the Left Globalization and Regional Integration Cuba and Panama: A Tale of Two Liberations Urbanization and the Environment Migration and Violence Race and LGBT Rights Centennial Appraisals

Notes Bibliography Glossary Index

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