A history of Latin America
By: Benjamin Keen, Keith Haynes
Contributors: Haynes, Keith (Keith A.)
Edition: 8th ed.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 592
ISBN-13: 9780618783182
Subjects: Civilization; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part 1: The colonial heritage of Latin America. Ancient America; title: Hispanic background; title: Conquest of America; title: Economic foundations of colonial life; title: State, church, and society; title: Colonial Brazil; title: Bourbon reforms and Spanish America; title: Independence of Latin America; title: Part 2: Latin American in the nineteenth century. Decolonization and the search for national identities, 1821-1870; title: Race, nation, and the meaning of freedom, 1821-1888; title: The triumph of neocolonialism and the liberal states, 1870-1900; title: Part 3: Latin America since 1900. Forging a new nation: the Mexican revolution and the populist challenge; title: Brazil: populism and the struggle for democracy in a multiracial society; title: Argentina : populism, the military, and the struggle for democracy; title: Cuba: the revolutionary socialist alternative to populism; title: Storm over the Andes : indigenous rights and the corporatist military altlernative; title: Chile: the democratic socialist alternative; title: Twilight of the tyrants: revolution and prolonger popular war in Central America; title: Lands of Boli var : military crisis, state repression, and popular democracy; title: Deconstructing the state: dictatorship and neoliberal markeets; title: Transcending neoliberalism: electoral Engan os and popular resistance to the dictatorship of markets; title: Two Americas: United States; title: Latin American relations.