Description
Book SynopsisExtensively revised to incorporate the latest interpretations and address issues of race and gender as well as of economic interest, this is the only book that in such a short space covers the causes, events, and consequences of the wars of independence (1810–1825) in all of Latin America.
Trade Review"Independence in Latin America is one of the most succinct, accurate, provocative, and comprehensive views on the historical 'big bang' that occurred in the Western world between 1776 and 1830... It would be hard to find, in so few pages, so much information so easily digestible." - Mauricio Tenorio, Professor of History, University of Chicago
Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Colonies in Flux
- Ruler and Ruled
- Trade with Whom?
- A Corporate Society
- Religion and the Enlightenment
- Haiti
- Chapter 2. Reactions to Change
- Argentina and Uruguay
- Chile
- Comparisons
- Venezuela
- Mexico
- Central America
- Comparisons
- Peru
- Brazil
- Comparisons
- Chapter 3. Toward War
- Who Wanted Change?
- European Events
- Spanish American Responses
- Chapter 4. The First War of Independence, 1810–1816
- Argentina
- Uruguay
- Paraguay
- Chile
- Venezuela
- Colombia
- Peru and Bolivia
- Mexico
- Brazil
- Commonalities and Differences
- Chapter 5. The Second War of Independence, 1815–1825
- Repercussion of European Events
- Venezuela and Colombia
- Argentina and Uruguay
- Chile, Peru, and Bolivia
- Mexico
- Central America
- Brazil
- Commonalities and Differences
- Chapter 6. What Changed?
- The Cost of War
- An Altered Cultural Reality
- Social Tensions
- Instability and the Caudillo
- Inclusion in the World Economy
- Documents
- For Further Reading
- Chronology
- Notes
- Glossary
- Illustration Credits
- Index
