Consider the Source Documents in Latin American History for Latin America: An Interpretive History

by Charlip, Julie A.

• ISBN13: 9780205708604
• ISBN10: 0205708609
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-12-15
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

The documents section originally found in the main text, Latin America: An Interpretive History, has been expanded and converted into this reader, which can be packaged with the text.

Table of Contents

Preface

 

Introduction

 

Worksheet for Analyzing Primary Sources

 

Chapter One: Land and People

Dr. Diego Alvarez Chanca, Second Voyage of Columbus, 1493

Alexander von Humboldt, Travels in South America, 1799

Gabriela Mistral, Chile, 1923

Dresden Codex, ca 1000-1200

The Poem of the Cid, ca 1200

The Constant Parrot: A Yoruba Tale, date unknown

 

Chapter Two: From Conquest to Empire

Bernal Díaz de Castillo: A Conquistador’s View, 1568

A Nahua View of Conquest, ca 1555

The Encomienda: The Queen and her Subjects

           The Queen, 1503

           Melchor Verdugo, 1536

           Bartolomé García, 1556

           Doña Isabel de Guevara, 1556

An Indigenous Cabildo Writes to the Crown, 1554

Mahommah G. Baquaqua: Biography of a Slave, 1854

 

 Chapter Three: Independence

 Early Warning:  The Túpac Amaru Revolt

           The Leader: Túpac Amaru, 1780

           The Wife: Micaela Bastidas Puyucahua, 1780

           The Prosecutor, 1781  

           The Magistrate, 1781

City Council of Caracas: On Becoming "Legally White," 1796

Rebellion in Bahia: The “Conspiracy of the Tailors,” 1798

Simón Bolívar: The Jamaica Letter, 1819

 

Chapter Four: New Nations

Simón Bolívar: Address to the Congress of Angostura, 1819

Lord Ponsonby: Great Britain’s Interest in New Republics, 1826

Domingo F. Sarmiento: Facundo, or Civilization and Barbarism, 1845

José Hernández: El Gaucho Martín Fierro, 1872

 

Chapter Five: The Emergence of the Modern State

Nicaragua, "I Must Insist on This Matter of Race," 1883

Clorinda Matto de Turner, Birds without a Nest, 1889

Justo Sierra, The Political Evolution of the Mexican People, 1900-1902

Manoel Sousa Pinto, "City of Mist," 1905

Alcides Arguedas, "The Sick People," 1909

 

Chapter Six: New Actors on an Old Stage

James Monroe:  The Monroe Doctrine, 1823

Francisco Bilbao, America in Danger, 1856

José Martí, "Our America," 1891

Sen. Orville Platt:  The Platt Amendment, 1901

Theodore Roosevelt: Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, 1904

Rio Branco: The Shift of Brazil's Diplomatic Axis, 1905

Adela Zamudio, "To Be Born a Man," 1887

Fabbri, Cari and Lopes: Anarchist Women in São Paulo, 1906

José Batlle, Workers Demands and Concerns, ca 1918

 

Chapter Seven: The Mexican Explosion

Porfirio Diaz, Speech to Supporters, 1910

Francisco I. Madero, Plan of San Luis Potosí, 1910

Emiliano Zapata, Plan of Ayala, 1911

Venustiano Carranza et al, Plan of Guadalupe, 1913

Article 27, Constitution of 1917

Folk singers, "La Adelita"

  

Chapter Eight: From World Wars to Cold War

José Carlos Mariátegui, The World Crisis and the Peruvian Working Class, 1923

Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre, What Is the APRA?, 1926

U.S. State Department, Exploring Possibilities with Honduras and Guatemala, 1934

Juan Perón, Declaration of Workers' Rights, 1947

Raúl Prebisch, The Economic Development of Latin America and Its Principal Problems, 1950

John C. Dreier, "The Guatemalan Problem before the OAS Council," 1954

Jacobo Arbenz, Resigning the Presidency, 1954

 

Chapter Nine: The Revolutionary Option

Fidel Castro, History Will Absolve Me, 1953

Che Guevara, Notes for the Study of the Ideology of the Cuban Revolution, 1960

Nicolás Guillén, "I Have," 1964

Leonél Rugama, "The Earth Is a Satellite of the Moon," 1969

Carlos Marighella, Mini-manual of the Urban Guerrilla, 1969

FSLN: The Historic Program, 1969

Salvador Allende: First speech to the Chilean parliament, 1970

 

Chapter Ten: Debt and Dictatorship

Ernesto Geisel: Speech to the Brazilian Cabinet, 1974

Lola Weinschelbaum de Rubino: Remembering Raquel del Carmen, 1976

CIA: Memorandum on Torture and Disappearances in Argentina, 1978

Archbishop Oscar Romero, The Last Sermon, 1980

Ronald Reagan:  Remarks to the Conservative Political Action Conference, 1985

Reed Brody: Contra terror in Nicaragua, 1985

Carmen Naranjo:  "And We Sold the Rain," 1988

Reports on Torturers: Argentina, 1986; Brazil, 1985; Guatemala, 1999

   

Chapter Eleven: Forward into the Past

EZLN: Sixth Declaration of the Selva Lacandona, 2005

Hugo Chávez: Speech to the World Social Forum, 2005

Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy: A New Paradigm, 2009

Latin American and Caribbean Unity Summit Declaration: A New Organization, 2010