Title: The Chile reader : history, culture, politics /
Authors: Hutchison, Elizabeth Q.; Klubock, Thomas Miller.; Milanich, Nara B., 1972-; Winn, Peter.; Hutchison, Elizabeth Q.; Klubock, Thomas Miller,; Milanich, Nara B., 1972-; Winn, Peter,
Year: 2014
Subjects: Chile History.; Chile Civilization.; Chile Politics and government.
Abstract: The Chile Reader makes available a rich variety of documents spanning more than five hundred years of Chilean history. Most of the selections are by Chileans; many have never before appeared in English. The history of Chile is rendered from diverse perspectives, including those of Mapuche Indians and Spanish colonists, peasants and aristocrats, feminists and military strongmen, entrepreneurs and workers, and priests and poets. Among the many selections are interviews, travel diaries, letters, diplomatic cables, cartoons, photographs, and song lyrics. Texts and images, each introduced by the editors, provide insights into the ways that Chile's unique geography has shaped its national identity, the country's unusually violent colonial history, and the stable but autocratic republic that emerged after independence from Spain. They illuminate Chile's role in the world economy, the social impact of economic modernization, and the enduring problems of deep inequality. The Reader also covers Chile's bold experiments with reform and revolution, its descent into one of Latin America's most ruthless Cold War dictatorships, and its much admired transition to democracy and a market economy in the years since dictatorship. -- BOOK COVER
Contents: No better land in the whole wide world / Pedro de Valdivia -- The poetry of place / Gabriela Mistral -- Chile's "crazy geography" / Benjamín Subercaseaux -- Catastrophe and national character / Rolando Mellafe -- Deforestation in Chile : an early report / Claudio Gay -- "Catastrophe in Sewell" / Pablo Neruda -- A call to conservationism in Chile / Rafael Elizalde MacClure -- In defense of the forests / Ricardo Carrere -- Pollution and politics in greater Santiago / Saar Van Hauwermeiren -- The Inca meet the Mapuche / Garcilaso de la Vega, Comentarios Reales -- A conquistador pleads his case / Pedro de Valdivia, Letter to the King -- Exalting the noble savage / Alonso de Ercilla, La Araucana -- Debating Indian slavery / Melchor Calderón and Diego de Rosales -- "To sell, give, donate, trade, or exchange" / Certification of Indian Enslavement, 1657 -- Portrait of late Colonial Santiago / Vicente Carvallo y Goyeneche -- From war to diplomacy / The Summit of Tapihue --^ "The Insolence of peons" / Mine owners of Copiapó -- A revolutionary journalist / Camilo Henríquez, Fundamental notions of the rights of peoples -- An Englishwoman observes the new nation / Maria Graham, Journal of a residence in Chile in 1822 -- The authoritarian republic / Diego Portales -- A political catechism / Francisco Bilbao, The American Gospel -- A literature of its own / Alberto Blest Gana, Martín Rivas -- The university and the nation / Andrés Bello, address delivered at the inauguration of the University of Chile -- A Polish scientist among the Mapuche / Ignacio Domeyko, Araucanía and its People -- German immigrants in the South / Vicente Pérez Rosales, Times gone by -- "A peculiar race of men" : gold, copper, and sweat / Charles Darwin, Beagle Diary -- How to run an hacienda / José Manuel Balmaceda, The landowner's handbook -- A Franco-Chilean in the Gold Rush / Pedro Isidoro Combet, Memories of California -- The worst misery --^ Letters to the Santiago orphanage -- A race of vagabonds -- Augusto Orrego Luco, the social question -- Race, nation, and the "roto chileno" / Nicolás Palacios -- The war of the Pacific, 1879-1893 / Alejandro Fierro -- The pacification of the Araucanía / Pascual Coña -- Gallery : Chile and its "others" -- Balmaceda and the civil war of 1891, José Manuel Balmaceda and Arturo Alessandri -- The politics of reform, the manifesto of the Democratic party to the Chilean people, 1888 -- The Catholic Church and the social question / 1893 pastoral letter of Archbishop Mariano Casanova -- Workers' movements and the birth of the Chilean left / Luis Emilio Recabarren -- Nitrate workers and state violence : the massacre at Escuela Santa María de Iquique / Elias Lafertte -- Women, work, and labor politics / Esther Valdés de Díaz -- The Lion of Tarapacá / Arturo Alessandri -- The decay of Chile's parliamentary republic / Alberto Edwards --^ Military intervention and the end of the parliamentary republic / 1924 military coup pronunciamiento -- Poetic creationism / Vicente Huidobro -- "Mother of Chile" and poet of Chilenidad / Gabriela Mistral