Latin America's Wars Vol. I : The Age of Caudillo, 1791-1899

by SCHEINA ROBERT L.

• ISBN13: 9781574884494
• ISBN10: 1574884492
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Potomac Books Inc

Summary

Robert Scheina's latest book, drawn upon years of research, lecturing, and teaching in the field, is a groundbreaking and definitive study of Latin American military history. Despite the pivotal role of wars in U.S. history, few in the United States understand their effect elsewhere in the Western Hemisphere. This volume examines the various wars for independence in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Latin America and the area's conflicts with the United States. Scheina concludes with the beginnings of overt U.S. political intervention in the region. He focuses on operational history in the context of war as an instrument of politics and society, including insightful analyses of the military as an institution and its relations with civilian government. Latin America's Wars fills a void in the literature, broadens U.S. readers' understanding of their neighbors, and serves as a launching point for new scholarship.

Author Biography

Robert L. Scheina spent twelve years on the faculty at the National Defense University as a professor of history.

Table of Contents

Illustrations and Maps	xi
Preface	xiii
Acknowledgments	xvii
Abbreviations	xxi
Introduction: What Were the Causes for War in Nineteenth-Century Latin America?	xxiii
Part 1. Wars for Independence against the Monarchs of Europe
Haiti (Saint Domingue), 1791--1803	1	(19)
Viceroyalty of New Granada and the Captaincy-General of Venezuela, 1810--23	20	(21)
Viceroyalty of Rio de la Plata, 1810--24	41	(13)
Viceroyalty of Peru, 1810--31	54	(17)
Viceroyalty of New Spain, 1810--29	71	(14)
Brazil, 1822--23	85	(8)
Part 2. Early Border Wars in Spanish America
The United Provinces against Brazil and Uruguayan Independence, 1825--28	93	(12)
Peru against Gran Colombia, 1828--29	105	(8)
Part 3. Wars of Separation versus Union---Spanish and Portuguese America
Buenos Aires versus the Provinces, 1820--61	113	(13)
Central American Union, 1826--40	126	(6)
The Peru-Bolivia Confederation and its Aftershock, 1836--41	132	(8)
Guayaquil versus Quito, 1830--1911	140	(9)
Brazil, 1831--49	149	(8)
Part 4. Wars of Conquest by the United States and Great Britain
Texas Independence, 1835--36	157	(9)
Caudillos and the Second Texas-Mexican War, 1836--44	166	(13)
The United States and Mexico. 1846--48	179	(19)
Central America, 1834--59	198	(7)
Part 5. Wars of Conquest (Do-It-Yourself Manifest Destiny)---Filibustering
Filibustering against Mexico, 1819--1911	205	(9)
Filibustering against Cuba, 1849--50	214	(7)
Filibustering against Central America, 1855--60	221	(14)
Part 6. The Age of the Caudillo in Mid-America
The Struggle among Venezuela's Caudillos, 1830--1903	235	(15)
Mini-Wars among Caudillos of Central America, 1844--1907	250	(12)
The Misrule by Bolivian Caudillos, 1841--99	262	(9)
Part 7. Mid-Nineteenth-Century Intraclass Struggles
Colombia and Sixty-three Years of Intraclass Conflict, 1839--1902	271	(10)
Uruguayan Intraclass Conflict, 1832--1904	281	(8)
Chilean Intraclass Conflicts, 1851 and 1859	289	(6)
War of the Reforma, 1857--60	295	(8)
French Intervention in Mexico, 1861--67	303	(10)
Part 8. Mid-Nineteenth-Century Attempted Territorial Conquest and Reconquest
The War of the Triple Alliance, 1864--70	313	(20)
The Pacific War, 1865--66	333	(8)
Part 9. Late Wars for Independence
Captaincy-General of Santo Domingo, 1838--65	341	(10)
Captaincy-General of Cuba, 1868--98	351	(14)
Part 10. Wars of Conquest against Native Americans
The Indians, 1819--1927	365	(10)
Part 11. An Economic War
The War of the Pacific, 1879--83	375	(16)
Part 12. Late-Nineteenth-Century Intraclass Struggles
Argentine ``Revolutions'' of 1890 and 1893	391	(6)
The Chilean ``Revolution'' of 1891	397	(8)
The Brazilian ``Revolution'' of 1893--94	405	(10)
Part 13. Political Intervention by the United States
The Spanish-American War, 1898	415	(11)
Postscript: What Were the Surprises?	426	(2)
Notes	428	(104)
Index to Full Bibliographical Citations	532	(9)
Index	541	(29)
About the Author	570