- ISBN: 9780205054688 | 0205054684
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 2/20/2011
Written by two of the leading scholars in the field, Latin America and Its People, Volume 2#xA0;presents a fresh interpretative survey of Latin-American history from the end of the Colonial Era to the beginning of the 21st century. It takes a thematic approach to examining the many institutions that Latin-Americans have built and rebuilt - families, governments, churches, political parties, labor unions, schools and armies - through the everyday#xA0;lives of the diverse people who forged these institutions and later altered them to meet changing circumstances.
Cheryl E. Martin
Cheryl E. Martin has taught Latin-American history at the University of Texas at El Paso since 1978. A native of Buffalo, New York, she received her bachelor’s degree from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Tulane University. She studied at the Universidad de Cuenca, Ecuador, on a Fulbright Fellowship and was a visiting instructor at the Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua, Mexico. Her publications include Rural Society in Colonial Morelos (1985) and Governance and Society in Colonial Mexico: Chihuahua in the Eighteenth Century (1996). She also co-edited, with William Beezley and William E. French, Rituals of Rule, Rituals of Resistance: Public Celebrations and Popular Culture in Mexico (1994). Martin has served on the Council of the American Historical Association and on the editorial boards of the Hispanic American Historical Review, The Americas, the Latin American Research Review and H. Borderlands. She has received two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Awards for Distinguished Achievement in both teaching and research at the University of Texas at El Paso. She enjoys reading and travel and is the proud grandmother of Mackenzie and Zachary.
Mark Wasserman
Mark Wasserman is a professor of history at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, where he has taught since 1978. Brought up in Marblehead, Massachusetts, he earned his B.A. at Duke University and his M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. He is the author of three books on Mexico: Capitalists, Caciques, and Revolution: The Native Elite and Foreign Enterprise in Chihuahua, Mexico, 1854—1911(1984), Persistent Oligarchs: Elites and Politics in Chihuahua, Mexico, 1910—1940 (1993) and Everyday Life and Politics in Nineteenth Century Mexico: Men, Women, and War (2000). He also coauthored the early editions of the best-selling History of Latin America (1980—88) with Benjamin Keen. Wasserman has twice won the Arthur P. Whitaker Prize for his books and has received research fellowships from the Tinker Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies/Social Science Research Council, the American Philosophical Society and the National Endowment of the Humanities. He has been vice-chair for undergraduate education of the Rutgers department of history and chair of the department’s Teaching Effectiveness Committee.Wasserman was an elected member of the Highland Park, New Jersey Board of Education for nearly a decade and served as its president for two years. He is an avid fan of Duke basketball and enjoys hiking and travel.
List of Features
List of Maps and Color Plates
Map of National Capitals
Preface
About the Authors
CHAPTER 8 THE NEW NATIONS OF LATIN AMERICA
Spanish America and the Crisis of 1808
Spain and the Napoleonic Invasion
Representative Government in Spain and America, 1808—1814
The “American Question”
Spanish American Grievances and the Crisis of 1808
Mexico
Venezuela
Argentina
Spanish American Independence
The Final Campaigns
Regional Conflicts in the Spanish American Struggle for Independence
The Independence of Brazil
The Portuguese Monarchy in Brazil
Popular Unrest in Brazil
The Culmination of Brazilian Independence
The Meaning of Independence
Conclusion
LEARNING MORE ABOUT LATIN AMERICANS
HOW HISTORIANS UNDERSTAND Were the wars of independence the turning point?
LATIN AMERICAN LIVES Manuela Sáenz, 1797-1856, liberator of South America
SLICE OF LIFE The 16th of September: independence day in Mexico
CHAPTER 9 REGIONALISM, WAR, AND RECONSTRUCTION: POLITICS AND ECONOMICS, 821—1880
Dilemmas of Nationhood
Who Governs and What Form of Government?
Federalism/Centralism and Liberalism/Conservatism
The Challenge of Regionalism
Argentina, Mexico, Colombia, and Central America
Brazil and Chile
A Century of War
Wars of Political Consolidation
Intra-Regional Wars
Foreign Wars
Civil Wars
The Impact of War
Popular Participation
Caudillos
The Challenge of Economic Recovery
Obstacles to Development
Export Economies
Conclusion
LEARNING MORE ABOUT LATIN AMERICANS
HOW HISTORIANS UNDERSTAND Benito Juárez: The Making of a Myth
LATIN AMERICAN Lives Francisco Solano López
SLICE OF LIFE The Parián Riot: Mexico City, 1828
CHAPTER 10 EVERYDAY LIFE IN AN UNCERTAIN AGE, 1821—1880
The People
The Large Estates: Haciendas, Estancias, Plantations, Fazendas
Work Life
Domestic Life
Plantations and Slavery
Villages and Small Holders
Religion
Urban Life and Societal Transformation
The Cities
Transformations
Food, Clothing, Shelter, and Entertainment
Food
Clothing
Shelter
Entertainment
Conclusion
LEARNING MORE ABOUT LATIN AMERICANS
HOW HISTORIANS UNDERSTAND The Construction of Racism
LATIN AMERICAN LIVES The Gaucho
SLICE OF LIFE Urban Slaves
CHAPTER 11 ECONOMIC MODERNIZATION, SOCIETY, AND POLITICS, 1880—1920
Economic Modernization
Exports
The Downside of Export-Led Modernization
Railroads
Modernization and Social Change
Population Increase
New Classes, New Voices
Rural Discontent
Mass Movements of People
Politics in the Age of Modernization
A Modernized Military
The Rule of the Ranchers and Planters: Argentina and Brazil
Democracy in Chile
The Aristocratic Republic: Peru
Dictatorship: Mexico
Modernization and Resistance
Indigenous Peoples
Resistance in the Countryside
The Mexican Revolution
Conclusion
LEARNING MORE ABOUT LATIN AMERICANS
HOW HISTORIANS UNDERSTAND Why Do People Rebel?
LATIN AMERICAN LIVES Evaristo Madero
SLICE OF LIFE A Chilean Mining Camp
CHAPTER 12 BETWEEN REVOLUTIONS: THE NEW POLITICS OF CLASS AND THE ECONOMIES OF IMPORT SUBSTITUTION INDUSTRIALIZATION, 1920—1959
Three Crises and the Beginnings of Intensified Government Involvement in the Economy, 1920—1945
The Aftermath of World War I
The Great Depression
World War II
Peacetime Economies
Dictators and Populists
The 1920s
Depression and War
Peacetime Politics
Failure of the Left and Right
Women’s Suffrage
Conclusion
LEARNING MORE ABOUT LATIN AMERICANS
HOW HISTORIANS UNDERSTAND Reconstructing the Semana Trágica (Tragic Week) in Argentine History
LATIN AMERICAN LIVES Elvia and Felipe Carrillo Puerto
SLICE OF LIFE Colombian Coffee Farm in 1925
CHAPTER 13 PEOPLE AND PROGRESS, 1910—1959
Socialization in the Factory and the Mine: Proletarianization and Patriarchy
A Miner’s Day at El Teniente
Urbanization and Social Change
The Cities
Life on the Edge: The Middle Class
La Chica Moderna
Popular and High Culture
Conclusion
LEARNING MORE ABOUT LATIN AMERICANS
HOW HISTORIANS UNDERSTAND The Voice of the Lower Classes
LATIN AMERICAN LIVES Frida Kahlo
SLICE OF LIFE Village Life in Peru
CHAPTER 14 REVOLUTION, REACTION, DEMOCRACY, AND THE NEW GLOBAL ECONOMY, 1959 TO THE PRESENT
The Revolutions: Cuba, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Peru, and Colombia
Cuba
Nicaragua
El Salvador
Guatemala
Peru
Colombia
The Tyrannies: Brazil, Argentina, and Chile
Brazil
Argentina
Chile
The Exception: Mexico
Resurgent Democracy and the “Pink Tide”
The Struggle for Control of Everyday Life
Indigenous Political Movements
The New Global Economy
Conclusion
LEARNING MORE ABOUT LATIN AMERICANS
HOW HISTORIANS UNDERSTAND Theories of Economic Development and History
LATIN AMERICAN LIVES An Argentine Military Officer
SLICE OF LIFE On the Streets of Neuvo Laredo
CHAPTER 15 EVERYDAY LIFE: 1959 TO THE PRESENT
The Reign of Terror
The Quality of Life
What Does It Mean to Be Poor?
Informal Economy
Narcotics Trade
The Great Migrations
The Cities
To Be Poor in the Cities
An Urban Migrant’s Story
The Environment
Natural Disasters
The Globalization of Culture
Art
Conclusion
LEARNING MORE ABOUT LATIN AMERICANS
HOW HISTORIANS UNDERSTAND From the Countryside to the City
LATIN AMERICAN LIVES Women Rebels
SLICE OF LIFE The Barrio/Favela
Glossary
Credits
Index
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