Born in Blood and Fire Vol. 2 : Latin American Voices,9780393935585

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Born in Blood and Fire Vol. 2 : Latin American Voices

by CHASTEEN,JOHN CHARLES

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2/17/2011

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W W NORTON

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Born in Blood and Fire: Latin American Voices includes colorful and engaging narrative accounts taken from novels, journals, essays, newspaper articles, and other documentary sources, many appearing in English for the first time and many translated by John Chasteen. Selections mirror the chronological and geographical coverage of Born in Blood and Fire .

Author Biography

John Chasteen: Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America, Third Edition

Preface	p. ix
Chronicles of the Encounter	p. 1
The Caminha Letter	p. 3
A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies	p. 7
General History of the Indies	p. 13
Chronicle of New Spain	p. 16
The True History of the Conquest of New Spain	p. 18
A General History of New Spain	p. 21
Colonial Transculturation	p. 25
Royal Commentaries of the Incas	p. 27
The First New Chronicle	p. 36
Happy Captivity	p. 43
An Account of the Guaraní Missions	p. 48
A Guide for Inexperienced Travelers	p. 51
Visiting the New Nations	p. 54
Personal Narrative of a Journey	p. 56
Travels in Brazil	p. 61
Journal of a Residence in Chile	p. 69
Life in Mexico	p. 73
Creating National Identities	p. 78
Facundo	p. 80
Memoirs of a Militia Sergeant	p. 86
A Mexican Self-Portrait, Various Authors	p. 91
María	p. 98
Bolívar's Justice	p. 101
The Perils of Progress	p. 106
The Inauguration of the Railway from Mexico City to Texcoco	p. 108
Evolution	p. 112
No Direction	p. 118
Birds without a Nest	p. 120
The Stock Market	p. 124
The Beehive	p. 129
Reactions Against Neocolonialism	p. 134
Ariel	p. 136
Facing the Barbarians	p. 140
The Backlands	p. 143
Santa	p. 151
Black Stuff	p. 158
Cultivating Non-European Roots	p. 162
Two Short Stories	p. 164
Arid Lives	p. 176
Runa Yupay	p. 181
Cold War Visions	p. 188
Declassified Message, Central Intelligence Agency	p. 190
Weekend in Guatemala, Miguel Angel Asturias	p. 195
Memory of Fire	p. 210
Guerrilla Warfare	p. 217
Zarpazo: Memoir of a Colombian Army Officer	p. 219
Diary of a Guerrilla	p. 224
The Tupamaros in Action, Movement for National Liberation	p. 229
They Won't Take Me Alive	p. 233
Confessions of a Torturer	p. 238
Credits	p. 245
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