Americanos
Subtitle: Latin America's struggle for independence
By: John Charles Chasteen.
Series: Pivotal moments in world history
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780195178814
Subjects: Latin America -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements; Latin America -- History -- Wars of Independence, 1806-1830; Latin America -- History -- 1830-1898
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Why Americanos?; title: Discovering América, 1799-1805; title: Pillars of the crown, 1806-1810; title: Not-so-civil wars, 1810-1812; title: A lost cause?, 1812-1815; title: Independence won,1816-1824; title: Nation-building begins, 1824-1850; title: The legacy endures.