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Exploitation, inequality, and resistance : a history of Latin America since Columbus / Mark A. Burkholder, Monica Rankin, Lyman L. Johnson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burkholder, Mark A., 1943- author.
- Johnson, Lyman L., author.
- Rankin, Monica A., 1972- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Latin America--History--To 1830.
- Latin America.
- History.
- Latin America--History--1830-.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 456 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- In this compelling text, authors Mark A. Burkholder, Lyman L. Johnson, and Monica A. Rankin tell the story of more than 500 years of Latin American history through the themes of exploitation, inequality, and resistance. Balancing an examination of different forms of exploitation withdiscussions of active and passive resistance, Exploitation, Inequality, and Resistance emphasizes these themes and analyzes the ways in which events throughout Latin America's history continue to resonate today.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 The Eve of Atlantic Empires 1
- Iberia 1
- Indigenous Societies in "the Indies" 4
- Africa and the Early Slave Trade 10
- Chapter 2 Exploration, Columbus, and Early Settlement 18
- An Age of Exploration 19
- The Caribbean Experiment 21
- Chapter 3 Conquest and Failure on the Mainland 29
- The Fall of the Aztec Empire 30
- The Fall of the Inka Empire 34
- Continued Conquest 37
- Rewards of Conquest 39
- Spectacular Failures 40
- Brazil 41
- Chapter 4 Invaders Alter the Indies 45
- Rethinking the World and Identifying Unknown Peoples 46
- Demographic Disaster 48
- Environmental Change 49
- The Columbian Exchange 52
- Chapter 5 Tools of Empire: Administration 55
- Imperial Organization for the Indies 55
- The Sale of Royal Appointments in Spanish America 59
- Municipalities 60
- Native Communities 63
- Administration in Brazil 64
- Chapter 6 Tools of Empire: The Church 69
- The Early Church 70
- The Mature Church 77
- The Inquisition 81
- Chapter 7 Language, Education, and Idolatry 85
- Instructing the Natives 85
- Indians in the Clergy? 87
- Formal Education 92
- Campaigns to Extirpate "Idolatry" 94
- Chapter 8 Economies and Trade 98
- Early Tribute 98
- The Evolution of Labor Systems 100
- Domestic Economies and Regional Trade 101
- Mining: Gold and Silver 102
- Sugar 104
- Transoceanic Trade 106
- Chapter 9 Societies of Caste and Class 116
- The Elites 118
- The Broad Base of New World Societies 121
- Family: The Foundation of Society 128
- Women in the Societies and Economies of the Indies 132
- The Culture of Honor 133
- Chapter 10 Living in an Empire 136
- Urban and Rural Environments 137
- Daily Life 142
- Chapter 11 Expanding Empires 153
- The Spanish Empire from the Late Seventeenth Century to the 1750s 154
- The Reforms of Charles III 158
- Brazil in an Age of Expansion 162
- Protest, Popular Insurrections, and Conspiracies 166
- Chapter 12 The Age of Independence (I) 170
- Collapse 171
- A Political Revolution 172
- Early Insurrections in Spanish America 173
- Rebellion in the Spanish Empire's Periphery 174
- Rebellion in the Old Viceroyalties 175
- Portugal and Brazil in an Era of Revolution 177
- Chapter 13 The Age of Independence (II) 182
- Spain Loses its Mainland Empire 182
- Societies at War 186
- Social Change 189
- Government and Political Life 190
- Chapter 14 Colonies to Nations 195
- Economic and Fiscal Consequences of Independence 197
- Centralism or Federalism? 200
- Caudillos 204
- Chapter 15 Nation-State Formation 211
- Politics and Parties 212
- Mexico and la Reforma 216
- Colombia and Liberal Reform 218
- Liberals and Conservatives in Central America 219
- Venezuela 220
- Society and Culture in the Mid-Nineteenth Century 221
- Chapter 16 Early Foreign Wars and Interventions 226
- Inter-American Wars 228
- Direct Intervention and Territorial Acquisition (1830s-1860s) 229
- Manifest Destiny 232
- U.S.-Mexican War 233
- Filibusters 234
- Spain and the Dominican Republic 235
- French Intervention 236
- Social and Cultural Impact of War 238
- War, Nationalism, and National Heroes 238
- Nationalism and the Written Word 239
- Chapter 17 Progress and Modernization 243
- Oligarchies 244
- Argentina's Liberal Oligarchy 245
- Mexico 247
- The Age of Guano in Peru 248
- Coffee Elite in Central America 248
- Positivism 250
- Mexico 250
- Brazil 251
- Venezuela and the Guzmanato 253
- Peru 253
- Social Limits of Progress 254
- Chapter 18 The Age of Informal Imperialism 258
- New Attitudes in the United States 259
- Expansion of U.S. Trade 261
- Venezuela and the Boundary Dispute 262
- Cuba 263
- Panama 267
- Intellectual Response to Imperialism 269
- Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine 270
- Chapter 19 Early Populism 274
- Populist Responses 275
- Populism and the Labor Movement 276
- Early Populism in South America 277
- Social and Cultural Dynamics 281
- Revolutionary Populism 284
- Indigenismo 288
- Chapter 20 Depression and World War 292
- The Great Depression in Latin America 293
- Latin America and the World 297
- Changes in Populism 302
- Women's Suffrage 307
- Mass Media and a National Imaginary 308
- Chapter 21 Onset of Cold War 313
- Leftism in Latin America 314
- Postwar Economic Trends 316
- Consumers and Culture at Mid-Century 321
- Cold War Security and Politics 324
- Chapter 22 Cuban Revolution 331
- Interventions and Dictatorship 333
- Revolution 337
- New Government and Initial U.S. Reaction 339
- Legacy of the Cuban Revolution 342
- Chapter 23 National Security State and Dirty Wars 347
- National Security State Defined 348
- The United States and National Security Doctrine 350
- The Emergence of National Security State Trends 351
- Bureaucratic Authoritarianism 353
- Cultural Expression under Authoritarianism 359
- Chapter 24 Debt and the Lost Decade 365
- Debt Crisis 366
- Challenges to Neoliberalism 375
- The Cuban Exception to Neoliberalism 378
- Cultural Production in the Lost Decade and the Special Period 380
- Latin American Tourism 381
- Chapter 25 Violence and Security in the Late Twentieth Century 385
- Civil War in Guatemala 386
- Other Violence in Central America 387
- The United States and the Contras 390
- Democratization and the End of Cold War 392
- The Illegal Drug Trade 393
- Social and Cultural Impact of Violence 398
- Chapter 26 Latin America in the Twenty-First Century 404
- The Turn "Left" 406
- Regional Integration 408
- New Developments in Drug Trafficking 409
- Immigration 416
- Globalization 419.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Burkholder, Mark A., 1943- Exploitation, inequality, and resistance.
- ISBN:
- 9780199837618
- 0199837619
- OCLC:
- 964241504
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