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A new history of modern Latin America /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Clayton, Lawrence A. (Author), Conniff, Michael L. (Author), Gauss, Susan M., 1968- (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
Edition:Third edition.
Subjects:
Latin America > History > 19th century.
Latin America > History > 20th century.
1800-1999
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Background to independence
  • The coming of independence to South America
  • The independence movements: on to victory
  • The aftermath of independence
  • The search for political order: 1830s-1850s
  • Order and progress
  • Citizen and nation on the road to progress
  • The development of nations: Mexico and Central America
  • The development of nations: South America
  • Inventing Latin America
  • Changing worlds and new empires
  • Early populism in South America
  • Dictators of the Caribbean basin
  • Divergent paths to modern nationhood: Panama, Brazil, and Peru
  • Early revolutionaries: Mexico, Brazil, and Nicaragua
  • The 1930s: years of depression and upheaval
  • Latin America in World War II
  • The classic populists
  • Mexico since World War II
  • Colombian conundrum
  • Caribbean basin countercurrents
  • The Cuban revolution and its aftermath
  • The national security states
  • Democratization and conflict in the late twentieth century
  • Latin America in the twenty-first century.