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Book SynopsisThe customary division of Latin American history into colonial and modern periods has come into question. This book demonstrates that there was a middle period in Latin America's historical evolution since the European Conquest.
Trade ReviewStuart F. Voss, one of the leading specialists of nineteenth-century Latin America, presents the results of a decade-long project synthesizing the secondary literature for Iberian America in the "long" nineteenth century, 1750-1929. Voss masterfully presents a grand narrative that builds on his previous works, On the Periphery of Nineteenth Century Mexico, 1810-1877 (1982) and Notable Family Networks in Latin America (1984). His new book, Latin America in the Middle Period, 1750-1929, solidly constructed, calls on Latin Americanists to reconceptualize the traditional periodization of "Colonial" and "Modern into a novel trio of epochs: "Colonial," "Middle," and "Modern."…The work is ideal for classroom adoption. -- Victor M. Macias-Gonzalez, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse * New Mexico Historical Review *
Voss has made a valuable and original contribution to the understanding of a large part of Latin America's history. * European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *
Table of ContentsPart 1 I: The Emergence of a New Society, 1750–1820 Chapter 2 Prologue Chapter 3 Changes from Within and Without Chapter 4 The Kiln of Independence Chapter 5 The Regional Ethos Part 6 II: The Uneasy Equilibrium, 1820–1880 Chapter 7 The Regional Compromise: Vertical Collaboration Chapter 8 A Mixed Economy Chapter 9 Portents of Destabilization Part 10 III: Passage to the Modern World, 1880–1940 Chapter 11 The Noteables' Consensus Chapter 12 The Popular Reaction Chapter 13 The Triumph of the Modernizing Nation-State Chapter 14 Epilogue
