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Exploitation, inequality, and resistance : a history of Latin America since Columbus / Mark A. Burkholder, Monica Rankin, Lyman L. Johnson.

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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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