Latin America in the middle period, 1750-1929 / Stuart F. Voss.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Voss, Stuart F.

Series:

Latin American silhouettes

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin America--History.

Latin America.

History.

Physical Description:

xxii, 296 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Wilmington, Del. : SR Books, 2002.

Summary:

The customary division of Latin American history into colonial and modern periods has come into question recently. This new book demonstrates that there was a middle period in Latin America's historical evolution since the European Conquest-one no longer

Contents:

Part I The Emergence of a New Society, 1750-1820

1 Changes from Within and Without 1

2 The Kiln of Independence 37

3 The Regional Ethos 65

Part II The Uneasy Equilibrium, 1820-1880

4 The Regional Compromise: Vertical Collaboration 97

5 A Mixed Economy 129

6 Portents of Destabilization 167

Part III Passage to the Modern World, 1880-1929

7 The Notables' Consensus 185

8 The Popular Reaction 221

9 Triumph of the Modernizing Nation-State 255.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0842050248

0842050256

OCLC:

46671201