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Preface | |
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Introduction | |
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Worksheet for Analyzing Primary Sources | |
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Land and People | |
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Dr. Diego Alvarez Chanca, Second Voyage of Columbus, 1493 | |
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Alexander von Humboldt, Travels in South America, 1799 | |
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Gabriela Mistral, Chile, 1923 | |
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Dresden Codex, ca 1000-1200 | |
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The Poem of the Cid, ca 1200 | |
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The Constant Parrot: A Yoruba Tale, date unknown | |
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From Conquest to Empire | |
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Bernal Düaz de Castillo: A Conquistador's View, 1568 | |
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A Nahua View of Conquest, ca 1555 | |
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The Encomienda: the Queen and her Subjects | |
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The Queen, 1503 | |
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Melchor Verdugo, 1536 | |
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Bartolomÿ Garcüa, 1556 | |
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Doua Isabel de Guevara, 1556 | |
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An Indigenous Cabildo Writes to the Crown, 1554 | |
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Mahommah G. Baquaqua: Biography of a Slave, 1854 | |
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Independence | |
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Early Warning: the Tùpac Amaru Revolt | |
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The Leader: Tùpac Amaru, 1780 | |
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The Wife: Micaela Bastidas Puyucahua, 1780 | |
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The Prosecutor, 1781 | |
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The Magistrate, 1781 | |
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City Council of Caracas: On Becoming "Legally White," 1796 | |
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Rebellion in Bahia: the "Conspiracy of the Tailors," 1798 | |
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Simòn Bolüvar: the Jamaica Letter, 1819 | |
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New Nations | |
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Simòn Bolüvar: Address to the Congress of Angostura, 1819 | |
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Lord Ponsonby: Great Britain's Interest in New Republics, 1826 | |
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Domingo F. Sarmiento: Facundo, or Civilization and Barbarism, 1845 | |
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Josÿ Hernà ndez: El Gaucho Martün Fierro, 1872 | |
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The Emergence of the Modern State | |
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Nicaragua, "I Must Insist on This Matter of Race," 1883 | |
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Clorinda Matto de Turner, Birds without a Nest, 1889 | |
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Justo Sierra, The Political Evolution of the Mexican People, 1900-1902 | |
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Manoel Sousa Pinto, "City of Mist," 1905 | |
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Alcides Arguedas, "The Sick People," 1909 | |
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New Actors on an Old Stage | |
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James Monroe: the Monroe Doctrine, 1823 | |
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Francisco Bilbao, Americain Danger, 1856 | |
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Josÿ Martü, "Our America," 1891 | |
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Sen. Orville Platt: the Platt Amendment, 1901 | |
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Theodore Roosevelt: Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, 1904 | |
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Rio Branco: the Shift of Brazil's Diplomatic Axis, 1905 | |
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Adela Zamudio, "To Be Born a Man," 1887 | |
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Fabbri, Cari and Lopes: Anarchist Women in Sao Paulo, 1906 | |
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Josÿ Batlle, Workers Demands and Concerns, ca 1918 | |
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The Mexican Explosion | |
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Porfirio Diaz, Speech to Supporters, 1910 | |
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Francisco I. Madero, Plan of San Luis Potosü, 1910 | |
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Emiliano Zapata, Plan of Ayala, 1911 | |
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Venustiano Carranza et al, Plan of Guadalupe, 1913 | |
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Article 27, Constitution of 1917 | |
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Folk singers, "La Adelita" | |
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From World Wars to Cold War | |
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Josÿ Carlos Marià tegui, the World Crisis and the Peruvian Working Class, 1923 | |
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Victor Raùl Haya de la Torre, What Is the APRA?, 1926 | |
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U.S. State DePartment, Exploring Possibilities with Honduras and Guatemala, 1934 | |
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Juan Peròn, Declaration of Workers' Rights, 1947 | |
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Raùl Prebisch, The Economic Development of Latin America and Its Principal Problems, 1950 | |
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John C. Dreier, "The Guatemalan Problem before the OAS Council," 1954 | |
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Jacobo Arbenz, Resigning the Presidency, 1954 | |
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The Revolutionary Option | |
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Fidel Castro, History Will Absolve Me, 1953 | |
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Che Guevara, Notes for the Study of the Ideology of the Cuban Revolution, 1960 | |
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Nicolàs Guillÿn, "I Have," 1964 | |
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Leonÿl Rugama, "The Earth Is a Satellite of the Moon," 1969 | |
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Carlos Marighella, Mini-manual of the Urban Guerrilla, 1969 | |
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FSLN: the Historic Program, 1969 | |
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Salvador Allende: First speech to the Chilean parliament, 1970 | |
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Debt and Dictatorship | |
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Ernesto Geisel: Speech to the Brazilian Cabinet, 1974 | |
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Lola Weinschelbaum de Rubino: Remembering Raquel del Carmen, 1976 | |
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CIA: Memorandum on Torture and Disappearances in Argentina, 1978 | |
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Archbishop Oscar Romero, the Last Sermon, 1980 | |
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Ronald Reagan: Remarks to the Conservative Political Action Conference, 1985 | |
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Reed Brody: Contra terror in Nicaragua, 1985 | |
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Carmen Naranjo: "And We Sold the Rain," 1988 | |
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Reports on Torturers: Argentina, 1986; Brazil, 1985; Guatemala, 1999 | |
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Forward into the Past | |
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EZLN: Sixth Declaration of the Selva Lacandona, 2005 | |
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Hugo Chà vez: Speech to the World Social Forum, 2005 | |
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Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy: A New Paradigm, 2009 | |
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Latin American and Caribbean Unity Summit Declaration: A New Organization, 2010 | |