A history of Latin America
Subtitle: from the beginnings to the present
By: by Hubert Herring ; with the assistance of Helen Baldwin Herring
Contributors: Herring, Helen Baldwin
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Jonathan Cape; Knopf
Published: 1968
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1002
ISBN-13: 9780224602846
Subjects: History
Description: Written from deep understanding, long acquaintance, and extensive knowledge, Hubert Herring's brilliant A History of Latin America is unquestionably the finest and fullest history of the complex and turbulent world of Latin America and its people. For this third edition, it has been extensively rewritten and brought completely up to date to tell the story of the Latin American experience from the Indian, Iberian and African backgrounds to the tumults of the mid-twentieth century. It cover Chile's epochal 'revolution by ballot' under Edurado Feri and the Christian Democrats; Brazil's recent military upheavals; Argentina's disappointing relapse into dictatorship; and the extraordinary rule of Fidel Castro in Cuba. The bibliography has been thoroughly revised and the statsitical tables include the latest available data. The colourful and verigated history of Central and South America provides the author with a challenge that is superbly met. Political, social and economic history are covered in great detail, but not at the expense of intellectual or cultural history; and the impressive personalities who have appeared with such profusion in this area are vividly portrayed. A History of Latin America is an authoritative and perceptive book, and one essential for any reader who wishes to understand the importance of this explosive continent in the world history. -- Inside cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 981-1002, bibliographical footnotes,) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I : Foregrounds and backgrounds -- Chapter 1; title: This land, this people --; title: Panorama --; title: The land --; title: The people --; title: Interlude -- -- Chapter 2; title: The Indian background --; title: The Indian, the first American --; title: The Maya --; title: The Aztecs of Mexico --; title: The empire of the Incas -- -- Chapter 3; title: The Iberian background --; title: Before the Romans --; title: The Romans and the Visigoths, 202 B.C.-A.D. 711 --; title: Moslem Iberia, 711-1031 --; title: The reconquest and the creation of the Spanish nation, 1031-1516 --; title: The golden age of Spain --; title: Spain's legacy to America --; title: Portugal -- -- Chapter 4; title: The African background --; title: The continent of Africa --; title: The slave trade --; title: What the Negro brought to the New World -- -- Part II : The Iberians in the New World -- Chaper 5; title: Discovery and conquest --; title: Christopher Columbus and the conquest of the Caribbean world --; title: The conquest of Mexico --; title: Magellan proves that the world is round --; title: The conquest of Peru --; title: The conquest of Chile --; title: Spanish exploration in the Amazon basin --; title: The Spanish main --; title: The lands of the Rio de la Plata --; title: Portugal stakes out her claim -- -- Chapter 6; title: Introducing the Spanish colonial period -- -- Chapter 7; title: Spain's governemtn in America : Kings, viceroys, and other important people --; title: The hierarchy of authority in Spain --; title: Royal governemnt in America -- -- Chapter 8; title: The church in Spanish America --; title: Some notable friars --; title: The Inquisition in America --; title: The missions --; title: The Jesuits --; title: The church at the end of the colonial period -- -- Chapter 9; title: Man, his land, and his labor in Spanish America -- -- Chapter 10; title: The getting and the spending : the economic life of Spanish America --; title: Royal control of the Spanish American economy --; title: The development of Spanish American economy -- -- Chapter 11; title: The formation of Spanish American culture --; title: Schooling in Spanish America --; title: The makers of books --; title: Drama, music and the fine arts -- -- Chapter 12 : The Portuguese empire in Brazil; title: The beginnings of Brazil, 1500-80 --; title: The Spanish interlude, 1580-1640 --; title: Other competitors -- English, French and Dutch --; title: Portuguese colonial government, 1640-1808 --; title: The church in Brazil --; title: The peopling of the land --; title: Products of forest, farm and mine --; title: Social and cultural patterns --; title: Brazil in 1800 -- -- Part III; title: The New World breaks with the old -- -- Chapter 13; title: The tumult of revolution --; title: Who revolted and why --; title: The precursors of revolution -- -- Chapter 14; title: Mexico's war for independence -- -- Chapter 15; title: The independence of Spanish South America --; title: Simon Bolivar's campaigns in the north --; title: San Martin and the liberation of the far south --; title: The meeting of the liberators --; title: The final act -- -- Chapter 16; title: The independence of Brazil -- -- Chapter 17; title: From war to peace -- -- Part IV; title: Mexico -- -- Chapter 18; title: Introducing Mexico -- -- Chapter 19; title: The era of Santa Anna, 1821-55 --; title: Agustin de Iturbide --; title: The nation gets underway --; title: The liberal interlude, 1832-35 --; title: Texas --; title: Centralism and dictatorship, 1835-35 --; title: War and the aftermath, 1845-55 -- -- Chapter 20; title: The era of Benito Juarez, 1855-76 --; title: La reforma --; title: Benito Juarez --; title: Civil war, 1858-60 --; title: The French intervention, 1862-67 --; title: The last days of la reforma, 1867-76 -- -- Chapter 21; title: The era of Porfirio Diaz, 1876-1910 --; title: The allies of the dictator --; title: Success and failure -- the Diaz balance sheet --; title: THe fall of Porfirio Diaz -- -- Chapter 22; title: Revolution, 1910-20 --; title: Francisco I. Madero --; title: Victoriano Huerta --; title: Venustiano Carranza -- -- Chapter 23; title: Reconstruction : the era of Obregon, Calles and Cardenas, 1920-40 --; title: Alvaro Obregon, 1920-24 --; title: Calles and his henchmen, 1924-34 --; title: Lazaro Cardenas, 1934-40 -- -- Chapter 24; title: Mexico turns to the richt, 1940 --; title: Avila Camacho and World War II, 1940-46 --; title: Miguel Aleman, 1946-52 --; title: Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, 1952-58 --; title: Adolfo Lopez Mateos, 1958-64 --; title: Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, 1964- --; title: Appraisal : 1967 -- -- Part V; title: The Caribbean and Central America -- -- Chapter 25; title: Cuba --; title: Spain's "Ever faithful isle" --; title: American military rule, 1898-1902 --; title: The republic under the Platt amendment, 1902-34 --; title: Fulgencio Batista, 1934-59 --; title: Revolution --; title: Fidel Castro : the first phases --; title: Cuba, the United States and sugar --; title: Fidel Castro : the story continues --; title: Where goes Cuba? some observations in 1967 -- -- Chapter 26; title: Haiti --; title: Haiti's beginnings, 1804-43 --; title: The years of tumult, 1843-1915 --; title: The caste system --; title: Haiti under American occupation, 1915-34 --; title: Independent Haiti, 1934- --; title: Haiti's prospects -- -- Chapter 27; title: The Dominican republic --; title: The winning of freedom --; title: Confusion and tyranny, 1844-1916 --; title: American intervention and the aftermath, 1916-30 --; title: The era of Trujillo, 1930-61 --; title: The Dominican republic since Trujillo, 1961 --; title: Appraisal: 1967 -- -- Chapter 28; title: Central America and Panama --; title: The United provinces of Central America, 1821-38 --; title: The republics go their seperate ways --; title: Guatemala, 1838 --; title: Honduras, 1838 --; title: El Salvador, 1838- --; title: Nicaragua, 1838-1909 --; title: Nicaragua and American intervention, 1909-33 --; title: Nicaragua : the Somoza dynasty, 1933 --; title: Costa Rica, 1838 --; title: Panama, 1903 -- -- Part VI; title: The lands of the Spanish main -- -- Chapter 29; title: Venezuela --; title: Jose Antonio Paez --; title: Antonio Guzman Blanco, 1870-88 --; title: Cipriano Castro, 1899-1908 --; title: Juan Vicente Gomez, 1908-35 --; title: The movement toward democracy, 1935-48 --; title: The army takes over, 1948-58 --; title: Romulo Betancourt, 1959-64 --; title: Raul Leoni, 1964- --; title: Venezuela in 1967 -- -- Chapter 30; title: Colombia's clashing ideas --; title: The foundation of the nation, 1819-42 --; title: Political struggles, 1840-80 --; title: Rafael Nunez and the constitution of 1886 --; title: The loss of Panama, 1903 --; title: Conservative rule, 1904-30 --; title: The liberals, 1930-46 --; title: The conservatice restoration, 1946-57 --; title: The national front, 1958 --; title: Colombia : hopes and promises -- -- Part VII; title: The Indian lands of the Andes -- -- Chapter 31; title: Ecuador --; title: The initial confusion, 1830-60 --; title: The age of Garcia Moreno : the throcratic state, 1860-95 --; title: The rule of the liberals, 1895-1944 --; title: 1944 and after --; title: Ecuador: its assets, promises and prospects -- -- Chapter 32; title: Peru --; title: Foreign liberators and domestic tyrants, 1822-45 --; title: The age of Guano and its aftermath, 1841-1900 --; title: Twentieth century Peru --; title: Peru : prospects and promises -- -- Chapter 33; title: Bolivia --; title: The birth of a nation, 1825-29 --; title: Nineteenth century caudillos --; title: Early-tewntieth-century Bolivia --; title: The national revolution, 1952-64 --; title: The second republic, 1964- --; title: Bolivia's prospects; title: Part VIII; title: Chile -- -- Chapter 34; title: Chile : the formative years, 1810-91 --; title: Colony to free republic, 1810-17 --; title: Dictatorship and anarchy, 1817-30 --; title: The domination of the conservatives, 1830-61 --; title: From autocracy to confusion, 1861-91 -- -- Chapter 35; title: Chile's evolution since 1891 --; title: The tumult of parliamentary tule, 1891-1920 --; title: The restoration of presidental power, 1920-38 --; title: The popular front, 1938-42 --; title: Juan Antonio Rios and World War II, 1942-46 --; title: Chile's postwar record, 1946-58 --; title: Jorge Alessandri, 1958-64 --; title: The election of 1964 : revolution by ballot --; title: Eduardo Frei Montalva, 1964- --; title: Chile : problems and promises -- -- Part IX; title: The republics of the Rio de la Plata -- -- Chapter 36; title: Argentina : land and people --; title: Gaughos and caudillos --; title: Bernardino Rivadavia -- -- Chapter 37; title: Federalists and unitarios --; title: Interlude, 1832-35 --; title: The return of Rosas, 1835 --; title: Rosas's domestic policies --; title: Rosas and foreign powers --; title: The last years of Rosas -- -- Chapter 39; title: Creation of the Argentine nation, 1852-90 --; title: Justo Jose de Urquiza and the secession of Bueno Aires --; title: Bartolome Mitre, 1862-68 --; title: Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, 1868-74 --; title: Expansion and convulsion, 1874-90 -- -- Chapter 40; title: Argentina : the radicals, 1890-1930 --; title: The oligarchy in control, 1890-1910 --; title: The oligarchy yields to the radicals, 1910-30 -- -- Chapter 41; title: Argentina : the old refime returns, 1930-43 --; title: Jose F. Uriburu, 1930-32 --; title: Agustin P. Justo, 1932-38