Latin America Conflict and Creation, a Historical Reader

by Burns, E. Bradford

• ISBN13: 9780135262603
• ISBN10: 0135262607
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-08-19
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

This text reproduces documents that provide a better understanding of the Latin American past and present, and draws most heavily from Latin American sources. It is distinguished by the widest variety of documentation, including art work, short stories, poetry, folk tales and travel accounts. For sociologists, historians, and all those interested in Latin American studies and history.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
The Encounter	1	(33)
An Abundant Nature and Promises of Wealth	2	(2)
Beautiful Lands and Innocent Natives	4	(2)
The Marvels of the Aztec Capital	6	(4)
Visual Depiction of the Indians	10	(2)
A Negative Impact of Conquest on Indian Society	12	(1)
Indian Lamentations	13	(2)
The Fall of Tenochtitlan	13	(1)
The Imprisonment of Cuauhtemoc	14	(1)
Flowers and Songs of Sorrow	15	(1)
Murals Depicting Cuauhtemoc	15	(3)
The King and the Indian	18	(2)
An Indian Assessment of Europe	20	(3)
``To Columbus''	23	(1)
In the Ancient Land of the Aztecs, the Hurrah for Columbus is Muted	24	(3)
Cultural Symbiosis	27	(7)
The Stone and the Cross	27	(7)
Patterns for Wealth	34	(17)
An Example of a Colonial Land Grant	35	(1)
Establishing the Basis for the Encomienda System	36	(1)
A Grant of Encomienda	37	(1)
A Petition to the King to Grant Permanent Encomiendas	38	(1)
Slave Labor on a Brazilian Plantation	39	(2)
Forced Labor Recruitment	41	(2)
A Comfortable Life	43	(1)
Sugar Plantations in Brazil at the End of the Colonial Period	44	(7)
Patterns for Power	51	(25)
Bolivar's Political Prescriptions	52	(7)
The Congress of Angostura, 1819	52	(4)
The Constitution for Bolivia, 1826	56	(3)
Political Advice from a Father to His Son	59	(4)
The Caudillo in Spanish America	63	(5)
The Brazilian Constitution of 1824: Contractual, Genetic, and Patriarchal	68	(4)
The Brazilian Emperor's Perception of His Own Role	72	(2)
Poem: ``If I Am Pious, Clement, Just...''	73	(1)
Advice to My Daughter and Heir	74	(1)
The Brazilian Monarchy and the Empowerment of Youth and a Woman	74	(2)
Modernity Vies with Tradition	76	(30)
Latin American Society in the Mid-Nineteenth Century	77	(13)
The City and the Countryside: Civilization versus Barbarism	77	(4)
Social Life in Brazil in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century	81	(9)
The Export Economy	90	(6)
A Sugar Plantation in Cuba	90	(4)
Rising Coffee Exports and Falling Food Surpluses in Brazil, 1850-1860	94	(2)
Ordinary People Face Economic Challenges	96	(6)
The Dispossessed in Rural Mexico	96	(1)
The Indians Lose Their Land	97	(2)
Land Monopoly in Pernambuco, Brazil	99	(1)
The Standard of Living of Workers in Northeastern Brazil	100	(1)
A Description of the Indians of Andean Colombia	101	(1)
The Limits of Education	102	(4)
Latin Americans Define Themselves	106	(41)
An Early Effort to Define Latin America	107	(3)
Salvation Through Originality	110	(3)
Ariel: The Spiritual Nature of the Latin Americans	113	(3)
The African Contribution to Brazilian Civilization	116	(7)
Combining European and Local Values into a National Culture	123	(2)
La Raza Cosmica: A New Race and a New Ideal	125	(4)
Liberating the Spirit of the Artist	129	(5)
My Life and Art	130	(2)
New World, New Race, and New Art	132	(1)
In Defense of National Dance	133	(1)
Reinterpreting the Indian Past	134	(6)
Masquerading Reality	140	(7)
The Quest for Economic Development	147	(60)
The Historical Causes of Underdevelopment	149	(6)
The Web of Exploitation: State and Peasants in Latin America	155	(7)
Dependency Theory	162	(8)
The Need for Structural Changes	170	(2)
An Early Statement of Economic Nationalism	172	(2)
Goals for Development	174	(3)
The Problem	174	(1)
The Solution	174	(3)
Nationalism and Development	177	(3)
Artistic and Literary Reactions to Progress	180	(27)
Art As Historical Document	180	(7)
``An Appeal to Some Learned Doctors''	187	(1)
``Rosaura''	188	(19)
The Revolutionary Option	207	(81)
A Theory of the Natural History of Revolution	208	(4)
The Visual Presentation of Popular Protest	212	(2)
Land and Revolution	214	(4)
The Plan of Ayala	214	(1)
Agrarian Reform Begins	215	(3)
Is the Mexican Revolution Dead?	218	(11)
Mexico's Historical Crisis	218	(4)
The Revolution Is Dead	222	(7)
The Cuban Revolution	229	(25)
Program Manifesto of the 26th of July Movement	229	(7)
Causes of the Cuban Revolution	236	(6)
Agrarian Reform	242	(4)
Women in the Cuban Revolution	246	(5)
The Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Cuban Revolution	251	(3)
The Nicaraguan Revolution	254	(25)
Sandino to Sandinistas: Historical Revolutionary Continuity	254	(1)
The Historical Program of the FSLN	255	(8)
The Minister of Agriculture Discusses Agrarian Reform	263	(3)
A Peasant Discusses Agrarian Reform	266	(1)
Elections Derailed the Revolution: What Happened?	267	(9)
The Initial Record of the UNO Government	276	(3)
Women at War	279	(9)
A Lingering Legacy	288	(1)
Failure to Resolve the Agrarian Issue	289	(5)
The End to Food Self-Sufficiency in Mexico	294	(2)
Hunger in Honduras	296	(2)
The Burden of the Brazilian Child	298	(5)
``It Can Hurt Plenty''	303	(10)
``The Glass of Milk''	313	(5)
A Major Transformation: Rural to Urban	318	(3)
The Challenge to Democracy	321	(2)
Misguided Development	323	(6)
Making Our Own History	329	(3)
New Leadership: Fear and Hope	332	(1)
Haiti: Turning into Another Cuba?	333	(2)
Haiti: A Plea for Grassroots Development	335	(1)
A Postscript	336