Latin America since Independence: A History with Primary Sources

ISBN-13: 9780367703967 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 396 str.

Alexander Dawson

Opis

Now in its third edition, Latin America Since Independence explores the region’s rich and diverse history through carefully selected stories, primary source documents, maps and tables that offer a diverse approach to dominant historical narratives.

Spis treści

0. Introduction: Latin America’s Useable Past  1. Independence Narratives, Past and Present  AT A GLANCE: Political Divisions  2. Caudillos versus the Nation State  3. Citizenship and Rights in the New Republics  AT A GLANCE: People  4. The Export Boom as Modernity  5. Signs of Crisis in a Gilded Age  AT A GLANCE: Economy  6. Commerce, Coercion, and America’s Empire  7. Power to the People  AT A GLANCE: Environment  8. A Decade of Revolution in Cuba  9. The War on Democracy  10. Scorched Earth  AT A GLANCE: Migration  11. Gender Trouble  12. Water Is Life  AT A GLANCE: The Digital Divide  13. #Ya me cansé  14. Epilogue

O autorze

Alexander Dawson is a Professor of History at the University at Albany (SUNY), USA. He is the author of Indian and Nation in Revolutionary Mexico (2004), First World Dreams: Mexico Since 1989 (2006), and The Peyote Effect: From the Inquisition to the War on Drugs (2018).