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A History of Modern Latin America


A History of Modern Latin America

1800 to the Present
Wiley Blackwell Concise History of the Modern World 3. Aufl.

von: Teresa A. Meade

36,99 €

Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 12.07.2022
ISBN/EAN: 9781119719212
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 432

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<p><b>Explores the modern history of Latin America using an intersectional approach, newly revised and updated.</b> <p><i>A History of Modern Latin America: 1800 to the Present, Third Edition </i>offers a lively account of the rich political, cultural, and social history of the independent nation-states of Latin America and the Caribbean. Viewing Latin American history through the lens of social class, gender, race, and ethnicity, this accessible textbook explores the complex set of personalities, issues, and events that intersect to form the Latin American historical landscape. <p>Written in a clear and engaging narrative style, the fully updated third edition examines specific events in different nations and periods to illustrate broader historical trends and interpretations. Concise chapters feature first-hand accounts of the life history of both prominent and ordinary people to contextualize topics such as African slavery in the Americas, the struggle for Haitian independence, the patriarchal rules governing marriage in Brazil, the construction of the Panama Canal, indigenous uprisings in the Mexican Revolution, the impact of immigration on Latin American life, the opening of diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba, and more. <ul> <li>Presents documents and excerpts from fiction to serve as concrete examples of historical ideas</li> <li>Examines gender and its influence on political and economic change </li> <li>Highlights the role of music, art, sports, movies, and other popular culture in the formation of Latin American cultural identity</li> <li>Includes a summary of European colonialism and an overview of Latin America in the 21<sup>st</sup> century</li> <li>Provides end-of-chapter review questions, discussion topics, and suggested readings</li></ul><p>Part of the popular<i> Wiley Blackwell Concise History of the Modern World </i>series, the third edition of<b> </b><i>A History of Modern Latin America: 1800 to the Present </i>is an excellent textbook for introductory and intermediate undergraduate students as well as high school students taking advanced/honors Latin American history courses.
<p>List of Figures xiii</p> <p>List of Maps xv</p> <p>Preface to the Third Edition xvi</p> <p>Acknowledgments xxi</p> <p><b>1 Introduction to the Land and Its People 1</b></p> <p>Geography 2</p> <p>People 2</p> <p>Economies 6</p> <p>Politics 8</p> <p>Culture and Entertainment 13</p> <p>Latin America: Past and Present 24</p> <p><b>2 Latin America in 1790 26</b></p> <p>Colonial Background 27</p> <p>Power and Privilege 31</p> <p>Wealth 32</p> <p>Colonial Administration 36</p> <p>Enlightened Monarchy 38</p> <p>The Agents of the Reform 39</p> <p>Disorder and Rebellion 41</p> <p>Discontent and Disorder in Brazil 43</p> <p>Changing Gender Roles 44</p> <p>On the Road to Independence 46</p> <p>Nationalism and American Culture 46</p> <p><b>3 Competing Notions of Freedom 53</b></p> <p>Five Roads to Independence 54</p> <p>African Slavery in the Americas 55</p> <p>Slavery and the Countryside 60</p> <p>Slavery in the Cities 60</p> <p>Treatment and Punishment 62</p> <p>Slavery and the Church 63</p> <p>African Medicine and Religious Practices 64</p> <p>Resistance and Rebellion 65</p> <p>The Sugar Colony of Saint-Domingue 68</p> <p>The Slave Revolt 69</p> <p>The Revolution Betrayed 71</p> <p>Brazil's Independent Empire 72</p> <p>Independence in Mexico 74</p> <p>South American Independence 76</p> <p>Post-Independence</p> <p>Changes in Racial and Gender Status 79</p> <p>The Last Holdout of Slavery in Spanish America 81</p> <p>Latin America in a Changing World Order 83</p> <p><b>4 Fragmented Nationalisms 87</b></p> <p>Searching for Political and Economic Unity 87</p> <p>New World Feudalism 89</p> <p>Post-independence Politics 93</p> <p>Argentina and the Tyrants 94</p> <p>Populist Caudillismo: Paraguay and Bolivia 96</p> <p>After Caudillismo 98</p> <p>Race, Race Mixture, and Liberalism 100</p> <p>Gender and Liberalism 103</p> <p>Intersections of Gender, Race, and Class 105</p> <p>Nationalism 108</p> <p><b>5 Latin America's Place in the Commodity Chain 112</b></p> <p>The Guano Boom 113</p> <p>Nitrates in Chile 115</p> <p>Sugar and Coffee 116</p> <p>The Growth of São Paulo 118</p> <p>Colombian Coffee 120</p> <p>The Rubber Boom 121</p> <p>Expanding Exports 123</p> <p>Mexico and US Expansionism 124</p> <p>The North American Invasion 126</p> <p>General López de Santa Anna 128</p> <p>The New Age of Imperialism 129</p> <p>Central America and the Panama Canal 130</p> <p>Ecuador and the "Panama" Hat 132</p> <p>Independence at Last? Cuba and Puerto Rico 135</p> <p><b>6 Immigration, and Urban and Rural Life 142</b></p> <p>Asian Immigration 143</p> <p>European Immigration 144</p> <p>The Southern Cone 146</p> <p>Life on the Pampas 148</p> <p>British Investment 149</p> <p>The Changing Cultural Landscape 151</p> <p>Urban Renewal 154</p> <p>Mexico and Benito Juárez 156</p> <p>French Invasions 157</p> <p>The Rise of Porfirio Díaz 158</p> <p>Intellectual Theories: Positivism and Eugenics 158</p> <p><b>7 Revolution from Countryside to City: Mexico 163</b></p> <p>The Porfiriato 164</p> <p>Opposition to the Porfiriato 166</p> <p>Constitutional Opposition 167</p> <p>Madero Assassinated 169</p> <p>US Intervention 170</p> <p>Women in Combat 171</p> <p>Carranza as President 172</p> <p>The Constitution of 1917 174</p> <p>Aftermath of Struggle 176</p> <p>Agrarian Revolts in Latin America 177</p> <p><b>8 The Left and the Socialist Alternative 182</b></p> <p>Socialism on the World Stage 182</p> <p>Social Reform and the Middle Class 183</p> <p>Anarchism, Socialism, and Anarcho-syndicalism 184</p> <p>Women in the Workforce 185</p> <p>Colombia: Resistance to the United Fruit Company 187</p> <p>The Labor Movement 188</p> <p>Socialism and the Arts 190</p> <p>Tenentes Revolt and Brazilian Communism 192</p> <p>Modern Art Week in Brazil 193</p> <p>Women in the Arts 194</p> <p>Socialism versus Capitalism 196</p> <p>José Carlos Mariátegui 197</p> <p><b>9 Populism and the Struggle for Change 200</b></p> <p>Getúlio Vargas and "New State" Politics 202</p> <p>Juan Perón and Peronism 204</p> <p>Perón's Fall from Grace 207</p> <p>Politics Engendered 208</p> <p>Revolutionizing Mexico: Lázaro Cárdenas 209</p> <p>Populism in Colombia and Peru 210</p> <p>Central America 213</p> <p>The Long Twentieth Century 217</p> <p><b>10 Post–World War II Struggles for Sovereignty 220</b></p> <p>World War II 220</p> <p>Temporary Worker Program 222</p> <p>Post-war Latin America 225</p> <p>Military versus Civilian Rule 227</p> <p>The Absolute Dictator: Rafael Trujillo 228</p> <p>Americas in Transition: Guatemala and Bolivia 232</p> <p>Guatemala 232</p> <p>Revolution in Bolivia 235</p> <p>Mining and the Voice of Bolivian Activism 237</p> <p>The Revolution in Decline 239</p> <p><b>11 Cuba: Guerrillas Take Power 243</b></p> <p>"History Will Absolve Me" 245</p> <p>Causes for Discontent 245</p> <p>The Revolutionary War 246</p> <p>Ernesto "Che" Guevara 249</p> <p>What Difference Did the Revolution Make? 252</p> <p>The Special Period in Peacetime 254</p> <p>Democratic Shortcomings 255</p> <p>The United States Escape Hatch 256</p> <p>Cuba and the World 257</p> <p><b>12 Progress and Reaction 263</b></p> <p>Modernization and Progress 263</p> <p>Brazil's Military Coup 265</p> <p>The National Security State 266</p> <p>Latin America's Youth Movement 267</p> <p>Mexico 268</p> <p>The Massacre at Tlatelolco 268</p> <p>The Chilean Road to Socialism 270</p> <p>The Chilean Road to Socialism Dead Ends 272</p> <p>Urban Guerrilla Warfare: Uruguay 273</p> <p>Urban Guerrilla Warfare: Argentina 275</p> <p>Dictatorship and State Terror 278</p> <p>Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo 280</p> <p>The War of the Malvinas/Falkland Islands 281</p> <p>Movements for Revolutionary Change: Peru 283</p> <p>Sendero Luminoso, Shining Path 284</p> <p>Women and Shining Path 286</p> <p>Repression and Fujimori 287</p> <p><b>13 Revolution and Its Alternatives 290</b></p> <p>A Changing Catholic Church 291</p> <p>Marxism and Catholic Humanism 292</p> <p>The Opposition 294</p> <p>The Somozas versus Sandino: the Next Generation 295</p> <p>The Sandinista Opposition 296</p> <p>Sandinistas in Power 299</p> <p>United States and the Sandinistas 302</p> <p>Effects of the Contra War 303</p> <p>Central America in Turmoil: El Salvador and Guatemala 304</p> <p>Politics of Repression in El Salvador 305</p> <p>The Opposition 307</p> <p>The Fighting Ends 309</p> <p>Guatemala: The Bloodiest War 310</p> <p>The Evangelical Alternative 312</p> <p>Colombia: The Longest War 315</p> <p>The War on Drugs in Latin America 317</p> <p><b>14 The Americas in the Twenty-first Century 322</b></p> <p>The Washington Consensus 323</p> <p>Brazil and the Workers' Alternative 326</p> <p>The Workers' Party in Power 327</p> <p>Scandal and Crisis 328</p> <p>Bolivia: Twenty-first-century Indigenismo 331</p> <p>Venezuela and the Legacy of Hugo Chávez 333</p> <p>The Bolivarian Mission 335</p> <p>The Pink Tide Stalls 337</p> <p>Chile's Transition to Democracy 338</p> <p>New Social Movements 340</p> <p>Movements for Racial and Gender Equality 342</p> <p><b>15 A Future of Sustainable Cooperation? 348</b></p> <p>Opponents Confront Free Trade 349</p> <p>The Latin Americanization of the United States 352</p> <p>Immigration and Neoliberalism 354</p> <p>Central American Refugees 355</p> <p>Sharing the Environment and the Cost of Stewardship 358</p> <p>The Role of the United Nations and International Bodies 358</p> <p>The History of Resource Exploitation 359</p> <p>Effects of Deforestation and Climate Change 360</p> <p>Environmental Activism 362</p> <p>Cost to Indigenous People 364</p> <p>Conclusion 366</p> <p>Notes 368</p> <p>Further Reading 369</p> <p>Index 383</p>
<p><b>Teresa A. Meade</b> is Florence B. Sherwood Professor of History and Culture Emerita at Union College, New York. She is the author and editor of many books and articles on Latin American and Caribbean history, especially social movements, issues of gender, and labor history in the 19th and 20th centuries. She is a member of the Editorial Collective of <i>Radical History Review</i>, former president of the Board of Trustees of <i>The Journal of Women's History</i>, and a recipient of grants from Fulbright, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Hadassah Brandeis Institute.</p>
<p><b>Explores the modern history of Latin America using an intersectional approach, newly revised and updated.</b></p> <p><i>A History of Modern Latin America: 1800 to the Present, Third Edition</i> offers a lively account of the rich political, cultural, and social history of the independent nation-states of Latin America and the Caribbean. Viewing Latin American history through the lens of social class, gender, race, and ethnicity, this accessible textbook explores the complex set of personalities, issues, and events that intersect to form the Latin American historical landscape. <p>Written in a clear and engaging narrative style, the fully updated third edition examines specific events in different nations and periods to illustrate broader historical trends and interpretations. Concise chapters feature first-hand accounts of the life history of both prominent and ordinary people to contextualize topics such as African slavery in the Americas, the struggle for Haitian independence, the patriarchal rules governing marriage in Brazil, the `of immigration on Latin American life, the opening of diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba, and more. <ul><li>Presents documents and excerpts from fiction to serve as concrete examples of historical ideas</li> <li>Examines gender and its influence on political and economic change</li> <li>Highlights the role of music, art, sports, movies, and other popular culture in the formation of Latin American cultural identity</li> <li>Includes a summary of European colonialism and an overview of Latin America in the 21<sup>st</sup> century</li> <li>Provides end-of-chapter review questions, discussion topics, and suggested readings</li></ul> <p>Part of the popular <i>Wiley Blackwell Concise History of the Modern World </i>series, the third edition of <i>A History of Modern Latin America: 1800 to the Present </i>is an excellent textbook for introductory and intermediate undergraduate students as well as high school students taking advanced/honors Latin American history courses.

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