People and Issues in Latin American History

, by Hanke, Lewis; Rausch, Jane M.

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ISBN: 9781558761957 | 1558761950
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Copyright: 9/1/1999

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Preface to the Second Edition

SECTION I: Simon Bolivar --- The Liberator

(44)

Simon Bolivar: The Life

(9)

Harold A. Bierck, Jr.

Portrait of Bolivar

(2)

Daniel F. O'Leary

The Jamaica Letter

(9)

Simon Bolivar

Message to the Congress of Bolivia

(10)

Simon Bolivar

Disillusion, Rejection and Death

(11)

J. B. Trend

SECTION II: The Age of Caudillos---Juan Manuel De Rosas

(38)

The Human Background of Dictatorship, The Gaucho

(6)

Domingo Faustino Sarmiento

What the French Thought of Rosas

(8)

William Spence Robertson

An Argentine Writer Condemns Rosas in The Slaughter House

(7)

Esteban Echeverria

Rosas Continued the Authoritarian Colonial Tradition

(7)

Jose Luis Romero

Rosas Proved the Limits as Well as the Strengths of Caudillism

(2)

John Lynch

Rosas Still Lives in the Hearts of Some Argentines!

(5)

SECTION III: Nineteenth-Century Economic Affairs: Did Railroads Hold the Key to Progress?

(44)

Latin America and the World Economy, 1850-1914

(10)

Sanford A. Mosk

Henry Meiggs, Yankee Railroad Builder

(7)

J. Fred Rippy

Emperor of the Caribbean

103

(2)

John Dos Passos

Emperor Pedro II Gave the Banker Maua a Hard Time

105

(7)

Anyda Marchant

Francisco Javier Cisneros, The Most Successful Railroad Builder in Nineteenth-Century Colombia

112

(6)

Hernan Horna

The End of a Dream: The Railroad Age in the Dominican Republic

118

(9)

Michiel Baud

SECTION IV: African Slavery in Brazil

127

(42)

Slaves in Brazil Have More Tolerable Lives than Those in Other Countries

129

(7)

Henry Koster

``A Horrid Traffic'': Life on a Slave Ship

136

(13)

Robert Walsh

Slavery is Doomed in Brazil

144

D.P. Kidder

J.C. Fletcher

Slavery is a Curse for Both Blacks and Whites

149

(3)

Herbert H. Smith

The Majority of the Brazilians in the 1850s Were Living in the Middle Ages

152

(10)

Gilberto Freyre

Brazilian Paternalism Was a Myth

162

(7)

Emilia Viotti Da Costa

SECTION V: Porfirio Diaz: Dictator of Mexico

169

(40)

President Diaz: Hero of the Americas

174

(10)

James Creelman

The Diaz System

184

(7)

John Kenneth Turner

The Bullfight Was a Metaphor of Mexican Society

191

(3)

William H. Beezley

The Diaz Regime was Unconcerned with the Needs of the Masses and Ignorant of Their Potential Power

194

(9)

Charles C. Cumberland

The Porfiriato: Legend and Reality

203

(6)

Daniel Cosio Villegas

SECTION VI: Conflicting Latin And Yankee Attitudes at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

209

(42)

Jose Marti, Poet, Journalist, Cuban Revolutionary and Moral Conscience of `Nuestra America'

212

(8)

Harold E. Davis

Did the United States Represent the Materialistic Caliban, and Latin America the Idealistic Ariel?

220

(11)

Jose Enrique Rodo

Ode to Roosevelt

231

(2)

Ruben Dario

The United States is Honor Bound to Maintain Law and Order in South America

233

(8)

George W. Crichfield

Ariel is still an Essential Book in the Latin American Search for Identity

241

(10)

Carlos Fuentes

SECTION VII: Eva Peron---Argentine Feminist

251

(52)

My Mission in Life

255

(14)

Eva Peron

The Woman with the Whip

269

(7)

Maria Flores

The Gift of Giving

276

(7)

Nicholas Fraser

Marysa Navarro

Eva in Decline

283

(3)

Richard Bourne

Women: The Forgotten Half of Argentine History

286

(12)

Nancy Caro Hollander

The Peronist Phenomenon and the Significance of Eva

298

(5)

Richard Bourne

SECTION VIII: Fidel Castro---and the Cuban Revolution

303

(56)

The Castro Revolution Was the Culmination of a Long Series of Thwarted Revolutions

308

(7)

Hugh Thomas

The Duty of a Revolutionary is to Make the Revolution: The Second Declaration of Havana

315

(11)

Fidel Castro

A North American Journalist Interviews Castro

326

(19)

Lee Lockwood

Castro at the Age of Sixty

345

(12)

Tad Szulc

Dilemmas of a Revolution: Cuba in the 1990s

357

(2)

Juan M. Del Aguila

Suggestions for Further Reading and Viewing

359

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