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Author:

Keen, Benjamin, 1913-

Title:

A history of Latin America / Benjamin Keen, Keith Haynes, the College of Saint Rose.

Edition:

Ninth edition.

Publisher:

Wadsworth Cengage Learning,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xxiv, 608, I-24 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Latin America--Civilization.

Other Authors:

Haynes, Keith (Keith A.)

Notes:

Includes index.

Contents:

Ancient America -- The Hispanic background -- the conquest of America -- The economic foundations of colonial life -- State, church, and society -- Colonial Brazil -- The bourbon reforms and Spanish America -- The independence of Latin America -- Decolonization and the search for national identities, 1821-1870 -- Race, nation, and the meaning of freedom, 1821-1888 -- The triumph of neocolonialism and the liberal state, 1870-1900 -- Forging a new nation: the Mexican revolution and the populist challenge -- Brazil: populism and the struggle for democracy in a multiracial society -- Argentina: populism, the military, and the struggle for democracy -- Cuba: the revolutionary socialist alternative to populism -- Storm over the Andes: indigenous rights and the corporatist military alternative -- Chile: the democratic socialist alternative -- Twilight of the tyrants: revolution and prolonged popular war in central America -- Lands of Bolivar: military crisis, state repression, and popular democracy -- Deconstructing the state: dictatorship and the origins of neoliberal markets -- Transcending neoliberalism: electoral enga©łs and popular resistance to the dictatorship of markets -- The two Americas: United States-Latin American relations.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)829443588

LCCN:

2011937464

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)