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Book SynopsisThe contributors to
New Countries examine how eight newly independent nations in the Western Hemisphere between 1750 and 1870 played fundamental roles in the global transformation from commercial to industrial capitalism.
Trade Review"
New Countries opens up possibilities for new inquiries that link the global with the local. This book is long overdue." -- Edward P. Pompeian * Journal of Social History *
"Because of the diversity of themes and nations covered by the volume, including identity, liberalism, slavery, industrialization, and Indigenous rights to name a few, it will appeal to multiple audiences. . . . In the end,
New Countries proposes an innovative, ambitious, and exciting framework to view the Age of Revolutions, the Atlantic World, and the path to liberalism and industrial capitalism." -- Erin Woodruff Stone * Canadian Journal of History *
"Historians of the United States will find this well-edited volume’s emphasis on the move in the hemisphere from diversity to consolidation, and on the common impact or effects of civil wars, abolitionism, and the imposition of racial exclusions and disabilities on large segments of national populations during the adjustment to world economy (as traced in a conclusion by Tutino and Langer) to be a useful way to rethink American exceptionalism and to think comparatively about the political and social effects of the global economy." -- Stuart B. Schwartz * Journal of American History *
"Seasoned teachers of the history of the Americas will find much in this anthology that echoes and clarifies their own efforts to map out hemispheric patterns and plot wider connections. Students of the Americas, particularly those at more advanced levels, and specialists of other regions and disciplines will benefit from the effort the authors have made to create an ‘integrated history’ of the Americas that views events from a broad social and economic perspective, takes proper account of contingency, particularly the impact of organised violence and warfare, and addresses both the commonality and the diversity of the historical experience of the hemisphere." -- Guy Thomson * Journal of Latin American Studies *
“This exceptionally strong volume provides a critical step toward bringing interpretive coherence to the distinct yet inseparable wave trains that swelled across and in some cases smashed against American shores during this revolutionary age.” -- Steven J. Bachelor * The Latin Americanist *
"A remarkable effort. . . . An important book that makes an extraordinary effort of synthesis by looking at global and hemispheric history. It offers sophisticated insights about the political and economic connections linking the Americas to the world. As such, it will dispel inherited historiographical misrepresentations of the nineteenth century." -- Marcela Echeverri * Agricultural History *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix
Introduction: Revolutions, Nations, and a New Industrial World / John Tutino 1
Part I. Hemispheric Challenges
1. The Americas in the Rise of Industrial Capitalism / John Tutino 25
2. The Cádiz Liberal Revolution and Spanish American Independence / Roberto Brena 71
Part II. Atlantic Transformations
3. Union, Capitalism, and Slavery in the "Rising Empire" of the United States / Adam Rothman 107
4. From Slave Colony to Black Nation: Haiti's Revolutionary Inversion / Carolyn Fick 138
5. Cuban Counterpoint: Colonialism and Continuity in the Atlantic World / David Sartorius 175
6. Atlantic Transformations and Brazil's Imperial Independence / Kirsten Schultz 201
Part III. Spanish American Inversions
7. Becoming Mexico: The Conflictive Search for a North American Nation / Alfredo Avila and John Tutino 233
8. The Republic of Guatemala: Stitching Together a New Country / Jordana Dym 178
9. From One Patria, Two Nations in the Andean Heartland / Sarah C. Chambers 316
10. Indigenous Independence in Spanish South America / Erick D. Langer 350
Epilogue. Consolidating Divergence: The Americas and the World after 1850 / Erick D. Langer and John Tutino 376
Contributors 387
Index 389
