Problems in Modern Latin American History

by Wood, James A.; Chasteen, John Charles

• ISBN13: 9780742556454
• ISBN10: 074255645X
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-01-30
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc

Summary

Now in its third edition, this leading reader has been updated to make it even more relevant to the study of contemporary Latin America. This edition includes an entirely new chapter, _The New Left Turn,_ and the globalization chapter has been thoroughly revised to reflect the rapid pace of change over the past five years. The book continues to offer a rich variety of materials that can be tailored to the needs of individual instructors. By focusing each chapter on a single interpretive _problem,_ the book painlessly engages students in document analysis and introduces them to historiography. With its innovative combination of primary and secondary sources and editorial analysis, this text is designed specifically to stimulate critical thinking in a wide range of courses on Latin American history since independence.

Author Biography

James A. Wood is associated professor of Latin American history at North Carolina AT State University, Greensboro. John Charles Chasteen is professor of Latin American history at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Third Edition	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
The Pictorial Evidence: Reading Images	p. 1
Independence and Its Consequences	p. 3
War to the Death	p. 5
The Vision of Father MoreloscEnrique Krause	p. 7
Argentina's Black Legions	p. 10
The Brazilian Path to Independence	p. 15
What Independence Meant for Women	p. 18
Reading Images Nineteenth-Century Travelers	p. 25
Slavery and Culture	p. 29
The Beginnings of Africian -American Culture	p. 31
Rethinking Palmares	p. 34
Africans in the American World	p. 39
A Day on a Coffee Plantation	p. 43
A Cuban Slave's Testimony	p. 47
Reading Images: Brazilian Slaves	p. 53
Caldillos	p. 57
Caidillos as Scourge	p. 59
Caudillos as Profit Maximizers	p. 62
Caudillos as Culture Heroes	p. 67
The Lions of Payara	p. 72
Ribbons and Rituals	p. 76
Protagonist on a National Stage	p. 79
Liberalism and the Catholic Church	p. 83
A New Generation of Liberals	p. 85
Liberalism as Anticlericalism	p. 89
The Post-Colonial Church	p. 93
The Juarez Law and the Lerdo Law	p. 97
Generational Warrior	p. 100
Race and Nation Building	p. 107
The Specter of Degeneration	p. 109
Civilization versus Barbarism	p. 112
A Brazilian Tenement	p. 114
A Mexican National Romance	p. 117
A Raceless Nation	p. 122
Neocolonialism	p. 129
Neocolonial Economics	p. 131
Neocolonial Ideologies	p. 134
A Paean to Progress	p. 140
The Traveling Expert	p. 143
Amazonian Exotica	p. 145
The Athens of South America	p. 149
Our Ugly Little Backyard	p. 151
Reading Images: U.S.-Latin American Relations	p. 155
Nationalism	p. 161
Mestizo Pride	p. 163
The Power of Indigenous Community	p. 166
The Poetry of Anti-Imperialism	p. 170
Economic Nationalism in Action	p. 173
The Shark and the Sardines	p. 175
In the Eye of the Hurriance Are 120 Million Children	p. 178
Women and Social Change	p. 183
Women and Education in Latin America	p. 184
Women's Reform Issues in Late Nineteenth-Century Peru and Mexico	p. 190
The Lady of Hope and the Woman of the Black Myth	p. 193
Peronist Feminism in Argentina	p. 199
Women's Reform Issues in Late Twentieth-Century Brazil	p. 202
Populism and the Working Class	p. 207
The Peronist Political Vision	p. 209
Declaration of Workers' Rights	p. 214
Many Getulios	p. 216
A Consummate Speechwriter	p. 221
Populism and National Development	p. 223
Words as Weapons	p. 225
Social Revolution	p. 231
Essence of Guerrilla Warfare	p. 233
Testimony of a Guatermalan Revolutionary	p. 238
Christianity and Revolution	p. 245
Chile's Revolution from Below	p. 245
The Chilean Road to Socialism	p. 249
Reading Images: Religion and Politics	p. 255
Latin America, the United States, and the Cold War	p. 259
The Lesser of Two Evils	p. 261
Statements of U.S. Foreign Policy Doctrine	p. 266
Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders	p. 269
Two Centuries Later	p. 274
Globalization	p. 281
Reagan in Cancún, or the Third Conquest of Latin America	p. 283
NAFTA and the U.S. Economy	p. 287
NAFTA should Have Stopped Illegal immigration, Right?	p. 289
China's New Role in Latin America	p. 292
The Buenos Aires Consensus	p. 296
The New Left Turn	p. 301
A Tale of Two Lefts	p. 303
Latin America's Populist Revival	p. 307
Address to the United Nations	p. 310
Chávez's Oil Reforms	p. 312
The Chávez-Morales Axis	p. 314
On Bolivian Sovereignty	p. 318
About the Editors	p. 321
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