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Table of Contents
Preface
Colonial Prologue

Part I: Independence and Turmoil

1. Background to Independence
2. The Coming of Independence to South America
3. The Independence Movements: On to Victory
4. The Aftermath of Independence
5. The Search for Political Order: 1830s-1850s

Part II: Nation-Building

6. Order and Progress
7. Citizen and Nation on the Road to Progress
8. The Development of Nations: Mexico and Central America
9. The Development of Nations: South America
10. Inventing Latin America
11. Changing Worlds and New Empires

Part III: Reform and Revolution

12. Early Populism in South America
13. Dictators of the Caribbean Basin
14. Divergent Paths to Modern Nationhood: Panama, Brazil, and Peru
15. Early Revolutionaries: Mexico, Brazil, and Nicaragua

Part IV: Confronting Global Challenges

16. The 1930s: Years of Depression and Upheaval
17. Latin America in World War II
18. The Classic Populists

Part V: Dictatorship, Development, and Democracy

19. Mexico since World War II
20. Colombian Conundrum
21. Caribbean Basin Countercurrents
22. The Cuban Revolution and its Aftermath
23. The National Security States
24. Democratization and Conflict in the Late Twentieth Century
25. Latin America in the Twenty-First Century

Notes
Bibliography
Glossary
Index

A New History of Modern Latin America

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: 01/08/2017
      ISBN13: 9780520289024, 978-0520289024
      ISBN10: 0520289021
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      History of the Americas

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Table of Contents
      Preface
      Colonial Prologue

      Part I: Independence and Turmoil

      1. Background to Independence
      2. The Coming of Independence to South America
      3. The Independence Movements: On to Victory
      4. The Aftermath of Independence
      5. The Search for Political Order: 1830s-1850s

      Part II: Nation-Building

      6. Order and Progress
      7. Citizen and Nation on the Road to Progress
      8. The Development of Nations: Mexico and Central America
      9. The Development of Nations: South America
      10. Inventing Latin America
      11. Changing Worlds and New Empires

      Part III: Reform and Revolution

      12. Early Populism in South America
      13. Dictators of the Caribbean Basin
      14. Divergent Paths to Modern Nationhood: Panama, Brazil, and Peru
      15. Early Revolutionaries: Mexico, Brazil, and Nicaragua

      Part IV: Confronting Global Challenges

      16. The 1930s: Years of Depression and Upheaval
      17. Latin America in World War II
      18. The Classic Populists

      Part V: Dictatorship, Development, and Democracy

      19. Mexico since World War II
      20. Colombian Conundrum
      21. Caribbean Basin Countercurrents
      22. The Cuban Revolution and its Aftermath
      23. The National Security States
      24. Democratization and Conflict in the Late Twentieth Century
      25. Latin America in the Twenty-First Century

      Notes
      Bibliography
      Glossary
      Index

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