New countries : capitalism, revolutions, and nations in the Americas, 1750-1870 / John Tutino, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tutino, John, 1947- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industrial revolution--Europe.

Industrial revolution.

International economic relations.

History.

Autonomy and independence movements.

Industrialization.

Europe.

Industrialization--Latin America--History--19th century.

Industrialization--United States--History--19th century.

Latin America--History--Autonomy and independence movements.

Latin America.

Latin America--Foreign economic relations.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 397 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham, [North Carolina] ; London : Duke University Press, [2016]

Summary:

After 1750, the Americas lived political and popular revolutions, the fall of European empires, and the rise of nations as the world faced a new industrial capitalism. Political revolution made the United States the first new nation; revolutionary slaves made Haiti the second, freeing themselves and destroying the leading Atlantic export economy. A decade later, Bajio insurgents took down the silver economy that fueled global trade and sustained Spain s empire while Britain triumphed at war and pioneered industrial ways that led the U.S. South, still-Spanish Cuba, and a Brazilian empire to expand slavery to supply rising industrial centers. Meanwhile, the fall of silver left people from Mexico through the Andes searching for new states and economies. After 1870 the United States became an agro-industrial hegemon, most American nations turned to commodity exports, while Haitians and diverse indigenous peoples struggled to retain independent ways.

Contents:

The Americas in the rise of industrial capitalism / John Tutino

The Cádiz liberal revolution and Spanish American independence / Roberto Breña

Union, capitalism, and slavery in the "rising empire" of the United States / Adam Rothman

From slave colony to Black nation : Haiti's revolutionary inversion / Carolyn Fick

Cuban counterpoint : colonialism and continuity in the Atlantic world / David Sartorius

Atlantic transformations and Brazil's imperial independence / Kirsten Schultz

Becoming Mexico : the conflictive search for a North American nation / Alfredo Ávila and John Tutino

The republic of Guatemala : stitching together a new country / Jordana Dym

From one patria, two nations in the Andean heartland / Sarah C. Chambers

Indigenous independence in Spanish South America / Erick D. Langer

Epilogue. Consolidating divergence : the Americas and the world after 1850 / Erick D. Langer and John Tutino.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: New countries : capitalism, revolutions, and nations in the Americas, 1750-1870.

ISBN:

9780822361145

0822361140

9780822361336

0822361337

OCLC:

942838490