Problems in Modern Latin American History : Sources and Interpretations

by Chasteen, John Charles

• ISBN13: 9780842050616
• ISBN10: 0842050612
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-11-01
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc

Summary

This is a completely revised and updated edition of SR Books' classic text, Problems in Modern Latin American History. This book has been brought up to date by Professors John Charles Chasteen and James A. Wood to reflect current scholarship and to

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
The Pictorial Evidence: Reading Images	xi
Legacies of Colonialism	1	(22)
The Racial Heritage of Colonialism	3	(3)
Stanley
Barbara Stein
A Spiritual Economy	6	(5)
Kathryn Burns
Becoming ``Legally White'' in Colonial Venezuela, City Council of Caracas	11	(5)
A Bishop Reports on Social Conditions in Colonial Mexico	16	(7)
Manuel Abad y Queipo
Independence and Its Consequences	23	(26)
War to the Death	25	(2)
Simon Bolivar
The Vision of Father Morelos	27	(3)
Enrique Krause
Argentina's Black Legioins	30	(4)
G. Reid Andrews
The Brazilian Path to Independence	34	(3)
John Charles Chasteen
What Independence Meant for Women	37	(12)
Sarah C. Chambers
Reading Images: Nineteenth-Century Travelers	45	(4)
Slave Culture	49	(28)
The Beginnings of African-American Culture	51	(3)
Sidney W. Mintz
Richard price
Rethinking Palmares	54	(5)
Stuart B. Schwartz
Africans in the American World	59	(4)
John Thornton
A Day on a Coffee Plantation	63	(4)
Stanley J. Stein
A Cuban Slave's Testimony	67	(10)
Esteban Montejo
Reading Images: Brazilian Slaves	73	(4)
Caudillos	77	(26)
Caudillos as Scourge	79	(3)
Charles E. Chapman
Caudillos as Profit Maximizers	82	(5)
Eric R. Wolf
Edward C. Hansen
Caudillos as Culture Heroes	87	(5)
Ariel de la Fuente
The Lions of Payara	92	(4)
Jose Antonio Paez
Ribbons and Rituals	96	(3)
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
Protagonist on a National Stage	99	(4)
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
Liberalism and the Catholic Church	103	(24)
A New Generation of Liberals	105	(4)
Frank Safford
Liberalism as Anticlericalism	109	(4)
Helen Delpar
The Post-Colonial Church	113	(4)
John Lynch
The Juarez Law and the Lerdo Law	117	(3)
Brian Hamnett
Generational Warrior	120	(7)
Francisco Bilbao
Race and Nation Building	127	(22)
The Specter of Degeneration	129	(3)
Martin S. Stabb
Civilization versus Barbarism	132	(2)
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
A Brazilian Tenement	134	(3)
Aluisio Azevedo
A Mexican National Romance	137	(5)
Ignacio Altamirano
A Raceless Nation	142	(7)
Ada Ferrer
Neocolonialism	149	(32)
Neocolonial Economics	151	(3)
Celso Furtado
Neocolonial Ideologies	154	(6)
E. Bradford Burns
A Paean to Progress	160	(3)
Georges Clemenceau
The Traveling Expert	163	(2)
Henry Stephens
Amazonian Exotica	165	(4)
H. M. Tomlinson
The Athens of South America	169	(2)
H. J. Mozans
Our Ugly Little Backyard	171	(10)
Frederick Palmer
Reading Images: U.S.-Latin American Relations	175	(6)
Nationalism	181	(22)
Mestizo Pride	183	(3)
Gilberto Freyre
The Power of Indigenous Community	186	(4)
Ciro Alegria
The Poetry of Anti-Imperialism	190	(3)
Pablo Neruda
Economic Nationalism in Action	193	(2)
Lesley Byrd Simpson
The Shark and the Sardines	195	(3)
Juan Jose Arevalo
In the Eye of the Hurricane Are 120 Million Children	198	(5)
Eduardo Galeano
Women and Social Change	203	(24)
Women and Education in Latin America	205	(5)
Francesca Miller
Women's Reform Issues in Late Nineteenth-Century Peru and Mexico	210	(4)
Carolina Freyre de Jaimes
Violetas del Anahuac
The Lady of Hope and the Woman of the Black Myth	214	(5)
Julie M. Taylor
Peronist Feminism in Argentina	219	(3)
Eva Peron
Women's Reform Issues in Late Twentieth-Century Brazil	222	(5)
Benedita Da Silva
Populism and the Working Class	227	(24)
The Peronist Political Vision	229	(5)
Daniel James
Declaration of Workers' Rights	234	(2)
Juan Peron
Many Getulios	236	(5)
Robert M. Levine
A Consummate Speechwriter	241	(2)
Getulio Vargas
Populism and National Development	243	(2)
Fernando Henrique Cardoso
Enzo Faletto
Words as Weapons	245	(6)
Herbert Braun
Social Revolution	251	(28)
Essence of Guerrilla Warfare	253	(5)
Che Guevara
Testimony of a Guatemalan Revolutionary	258	(3)
Maria Lupe
Christianity and Revolution	261	(4)
Margaret Randall
Chile's Revolution from Below	265	(4)
Peter Winn
The Chilean Road to Socialism	269	(10)
Salvador Allende
Reading Images: Religion and Politics	275	(4)
Latin America, the United States, and the Cold War	279	(22)
The Lesser of Two Evils	281	(5)
David F. Schmitz
Statements of U.S. Foreign Policy Doctrine Presidents	286	(3)
James Monroe
Theodore Roosevelt
Harry Truman
Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders, Church Committee	289	(5)
Two Centuries Later	294	(7)
Lars Schoultz
Globalization	301	(22)
Towards a New Consciousness	303	(4)
Gloria Anzaldua
What Photos Would You Take of the Endless City?	307	(5)
Carlos Monsivais
Nafta and the U.S. Economy, The Clinton Administration	312	(3)
First Declaration from the Lacandon Jungle, Zapatista National Liberation Army	315	(3)
The Fiesta of the Word	318	(5)
June C. Nash
About the Editors	323