1. Introduction to the Land and Its People2. Latin America in 17903. Competing Notions of Freedom4. Fragmented Nationalisms5. Latin America's Place in the Commodity Chain6. Immigration, and Urban and Rural Life7. Revolution from Countryside to City: Mexico8. The Left and the Socialist Alternative9. Populism and the Struggle for Change10. Post-World War II Struggles for Sovereignty11. Cuba: Guerrillas Take Power12. Progress and Reaction13. Revolution and Its Alternatives14. The Americas in the Twenty-first Century15. A Future of Sustainable Cooperation?Further Reading
Teresa A. Meade is Florence B. Sherwood Professor of History and Culture Emerita at Union College, New York. She is the author and editor of many books and articles on Latin American and Caribbean history, especially social movements, issues of gender, and labor history in the 19th and 20th centuries. She is a member of the Editorial Collective of Radical History Review, former president of the Board of Trustees of The Journal of Women's History, and a recipient of grants from Fulbright, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Hadassah Brandeis Institute.