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| List of figures | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Chronology of main events | |
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| Prologue: Many Latin Americas | |
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| The late colonial period and the wars of independence (1780-1825) | |
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| World context | |
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| The colonial experience | |
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| Church-State relations | |
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| The emergence of creole patriotism | |
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| Who revolted and why | |
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| Mexico's war of independence | |
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| The independence of the River Plate provinces | |
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| Jose de San Martin's campaign in the South | |
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| Simon Bolivar's campaign in the North | |
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| The independence of Brazil | |
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| The case of Cuba | |
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| Exhibit 1.1: Morelos' Sentimientos de la nacion (1813) | |
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| Exhibit 1.2: Artigas' Instrucciones (1813) | |
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| Topics for discussion in class | |
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| Early national period (1825-1850) | |
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| World context | |
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| The age of proposals | |
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| Caudillos | |
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| Federalists and centralists | |
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| Church-State relations | |
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| The Brazilian empire | |
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| The United Provinces of Central America | |
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| The Chilean Constitution of 1833 | |
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| Major international wars (1825-1848) | |
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| Exhibit 2.1: Bolivar's letter from Barranquilla (1830) | |
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| Exhibit 2.2: Gutierrez Estrada's Carta (1840) | |
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| Topics for discussion in class | |
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| The rise of the neocolonial order (1850-1880) | |
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| World context | |
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| The watershed | |
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| Liberals and conservatives | |
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| The neocolonial order | |
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| Order and progress | |
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| The rise of the oligarchy | |
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| The empire of Pedro II (1841-1889) | |
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| Major Latin American wars (1864-1883) | |
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| Exhibit 3.1: Alberdi's Bases y puntos de partida (1852) | |
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| Exhibit 3.2: Sarmiento's presidential address (1868) | |
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| Topics for discussion in class | |
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| The development and fall of the neocolonial order (1880-1930) | |
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| World context | |
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| The triumph of the liberal State | |
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| The First Republic of Brazil (1889-1930) | |
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| The rise of US interventionism | |
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| The impact of immigration | |
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| The 'social question' | |
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| The Mexican Revolution (1910-1920) | |
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| The crisis of the 1920s and the emergence of nationalism | |
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| Exhibit 4.1: Jose Carlos Mariategui, 7 Ensayos (1928) | |
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| Exhibit 4.2: Emiliano Zapata, Plan de Ayala (1911) | |
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| Reaction and revolution (1930-1970) | |
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| World context | |
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| The 1929 Wall Street Crash and its consequences | |
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| Land of dictators | |
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| Latin America and the Cold War | |
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| The Cuban Revolution (1956-1959) | |
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| Struggling democracies | |
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| Latin American wars (1932-1969) | |
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| Population | |
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| Exhibit 5.1: Rafael Trujillo, Mensaje al pueblo dominicano (1931) | |
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| Exhibit 5.2: Fidel Castro, Primera declaracion de La Habana (1960) | |
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| Topics for discussion in class | |
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| Dictatorship and democracy since 1970 | |
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| World context | |
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| The last dictators | |
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| The Sandinista revolution (Nicaragua, 1979) | |
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| Processes of democratisation | |
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| Globalisation, the impact of neoliberalism and the rise of the New Left | |
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| Migration | |
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| Drug trafficking | |
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| The challenges of the twenty-first century | |
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| Exhibit 6.1: Evo Morales, Discurso de posesion del Presidente Constitucional de la Republica (2006) | |
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| Exhibit 6.2: Hugo Chavez, Discurso ante la ONU (2006) | |
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| Topics for discussion in class | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Index | |