A new history of modern Latin America

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A new history of modern Latin America

Lawrence A. Clayton, Michael L. Conniff, and Susan M. Gauss

University of California Press, c2017

3rd ed

  • : pbk

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"Revised and expanded third edition"--Cover

Includes bibliographical references (p. 653-661) and index

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A New History of Modern Latin America provides an engaging and readable narrative history of the nations of Latin America from the Wars of Independence in the nineteenth century to the democratic turn in the twenty-first. This new edition of a well-known text has been revised and updated to include the most recent interpretations of major themes in the economic, social, and cultural history of the region to show the unity of the Latin America experience while exploring the diversity of the region's geography, peoples, and cultures. It also presents substantial new material on women, gender, and race in the region. Each chapter begins with primary documents, offering glimpses into moments in history and setting the scene for the chapter, and concludes with timelines and key words to reinforce content. Discussion questions are included to help students with research assignments and papers. Both professors and students will find its narrative, chronological approach a useful guide to the history of this important area of the world.

Table of Contents

Preface Colonial Prologue Part I: Independence and Turmoil 1. Background to Independence 2. The Coming of Independence to South America 3. The Independence Movements: On to Victory 4. The Aftermath of Independence 5. The Search for Political Order: 1830s-1850s Part II: Nation-Building 6. Order and Progress 7. Citizen and Nation on the Road to Progress 8. The Development of Nations: Mexico and Central America 9. The Development of Nations: South America 10. Inventing Latin America 11. Changing Worlds and New Empires Part III: Reform and Revolution 12. Early Populism in South America 13. Dictators of the Caribbean Basin 14. Divergent Paths to Modern Nationhood: Panama, Brazil, and Peru 15. Early Revolutionaries: Mexico, Brazil, and Nicaragua Part IV: Confronting Global Challenges 16. The 1930s: Years of Depression and Upheaval 17. Latin America in World War II 18. The Classic Populists Part V: Dictatorship, Development, and Democracy 19. Mexico since World War II 20. Colombian Conundrum 21. Caribbean Basin Countercurrents 22. The Cuban Revolution and its Aftermath 23. The National Security States 24. Democratization and Conflict in the Late Twentieth Century 25. Latin America in the Twenty-First Century Notes Bibliography Glossary Index

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