Problems in Modern Latin American History: Sources and Interpretations : Completely Revised and UpdatedThis 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 maximize the book's utility as a teaching tool. The book is divided into 13 chapters, with each chapter dedicated to addressing a particular 'problem' in modern Latin America-issues that complement most survey texts. Each chapter includes an interpretive essay that frames a clear central issue for students to tackle, along with excerpts from historical writing that advance alternative-or even conflicting-interpretations. In addition, each chapter contains primary documents for students to analyze in relation to the interpretive issues. This primary material includes passages of Latin American fiction in translation, biographical sketches, and images. Designed as a supplemental text for survey courses on Latin American history, this book's provocative 'problems' approach will engage students, evoke lively classroom discussion, and promote critical thinking. |
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Legacies of Colonialism | 1 |
1 The Racial Heritage of Colonialism | 3 |
2 A Spiritual Economy | 6 |
3 Becoming Legally White in Colonial Venezuela City Council of Caracas | 11 |
4 A Bishop Reports on Social Conditions in Colonial Mexico Manuel Abad y Queipo | 16 |
Independence and Its Consequences | 23 |
1 War to the Death | 25 |
2 The Vision of Father Morelos | 27 |
6 The Athens of South America | 169 |
7 Our Ugly Little Backyard | 171 |
USLatin American Relations | 175 |
Nationalism | 181 |
1 Mestizo Pride | 183 |
2 The Power of Indigenous Community | 186 |
3 The Poetry of AntiImperialism | 190 |
4 Economic Nationalism in Action | 193 |
3 Argentinas Black Legions | 30 |
4 The Brazilian Path to Independence | 34 |
5 What Independence Meant for Women | 37 |
NineteenthCentury Travelers | 45 |
Slave Culture | 49 |
1 The Beginnings of AfricanAmerican Culture | 51 |
2 Rethinking Palmares | 54 |
3 Africans in the American World | 59 |
4 A Day on a Coffee Plantation | 63 |
5 A Cuban Slaves Testimony | 67 |
Brazilian Slaves | 73 |
Caudillos | 77 |
1 Caudillos as Scourge | 79 |
2 Caudillos as Profit Maximizers | 82 |
3 Caudillos as Culture Heroes | 87 |
4 The Lions of Payara | 92 |
5 Ribbons and Rituals | 96 |
6 Protagonist on a National Stage | 99 |
Liberalism and the Catholic Church | 103 |
1 A New Generation of Liberals | 105 |
2 Liberalism as Anticlericalism | 109 |
3 The PostColonial Church | 113 |
4 The Juarez Law and the Lerdo Law | 117 |
5 Generational Warrior | 120 |
Race and Nation Building | 127 |
1 The Specter of Degeneration | 129 |
2 Civilization versus Barbarism | 132 |
3 A Brazilian Tenement | 134 |
4 A Mexican National Romance | 137 |
5 A Raceless Nation | 142 |
Neocolonialism | 149 |
1 INeocolonial Economics | 151 |
2 Neocolonial Ideologies | 154 |
3 A Paean to Progress | 160 |
4 The Traveling Expert | 163 |
5 Amazonian Exotica | 165 |
5 The Shark and the Sardines | 195 |
6 In the Eye of the Hurricane Are 120 Million Children | 198 |
Women and Social Change | 203 |
1 Women and Education in Latin America | 205 |
2 Womens Reform Issues in Late NineteenthCentury Peru and Mexico | 210 |
3 The Lady of Hope and the Woman of the Black Myth | 214 |
4 Peronist Feminism in Argentina | 219 |
5 Womens Reform Issues in Late TwentiethCentury Brazil | 222 |
Populism and the Working Class | 227 |
1 The Peronist Political Vision | 229 |
2 Declaration of Workers Rights | 234 |
3 Many Getulios | 236 |
4 A Consummate Speechwriter | 241 |
5 Populism and National Development | 243 |
6 Words as Weapons | 245 |
Social Revolution | 251 |
1 Essence of Guerrilla Warfare | 253 |
2 Testimony of a Guatemalan Revolutionary | 258 |
3 Christianity and Revolution | 261 |
4 Chiles Revolution from Below | 265 |
5 The Chilean Road to Socialism | 269 |
Religion and Politics | 275 |
Latin America the United States and the Cold War | 279 |
1 The Lesser of Two Evils | 281 |
2 Statements of US Foreign Policy Doctrine | 286 |
3 Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders | 289 |
4 Two Centuries Later | 294 |
Globalization | 301 |
1 Towards a New Consciousness | 303 |
2 What Photos Would You Take of the Endless City? | 307 |
3 NAFTA and the US Economy | 312 |
4 First Declaration from the Lacandon Jungle | 314 |
5 The Fiesta of the Word | 316 |
About the Editors | 321 |
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