The History of Latin America: Collision of Cultures

ISBN-13: 9781403980816 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 448 str.

Marshall C. Eakin

Opis

This narrative history of Latin America surveys five centuries in less than five hundred pages. The first third of the book moves from the Americas before Columbus to the wars for independence in the early nineteenth century. The construction of new nations and peoples in the nineteenth century forms the middle third, and the final section analyzes economic development, rising political participation, and the search of identity over the last century. The collision of peoples and cultures--Native Americans, Europeans, Africans--that defines Latin America, and gives it both its unity and diversity, provides the central theme of this concise, synthetic history.

Spis treści

Introduction: Unity and Diversity - PART I: THREE PEOPLES CONVERGE - The Lay of the Land and the Water - American Peoples and Cultures - Iberians and Africans - Moving Out across the Oceans - The First Conquest - The Conquest on the Peripheries - PART II: BUILDING EMPIRES AND SOCIETIES IN A NEW WORLD - Land and Labor - State and Empire - Religion and Empire - Race, Culture, and Society - Reforms and Revolutions - The Onset of the Wars for Independence - The Wars for Independence - PART III: FORGING A NEW ORDER - Liberals, Conservatives, and Disorder - Liberals, Positivists, and Order - Great Britain, the U.S., and Latin America - The Pursuit of Identity - PART IV: DEMOCRACY, DEVELOPMENT, AND IDENTITY - Diverging Paths: Many Latin Americas - The Path of Revolution: Before 1959 - The Path of Revolution: Since 1959 - The Path of Reform - Poverty and Progress - Race, Class, and Culture - Latin America in the 21st Century

O autorze

Marshall C. Eakin is the author of Brazil: The Once and Future Country. He is a noted authority on the region, and has written many journal and magazine articles on Latin American history, culture, and politics as well as contributing to travel guides.