Research Catalog

Title

The history of Latin America : collision of cultures / Marshall C. Eakin.

Author

Eakin, Marshall C. (Marshall Craig), 1952-

Publication

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

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Details

Description

xii, 436 p. : maps; 24 cm.

Summary

A narrative history of Latin America covering five centuries beginning before the explorations of Columbus to the end of the twentieth century that describes its economic and political development.

Series Statement

Palgrave essential histories

Uniform Title

Palgrave essential histories

Subject

• Geschichte
• Geschichte (umfassend)
• Latin America > History

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [423]-428) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : Unity and diversity -- pt. 1. Three peoples converge -- The lay of the land--and the water -- American peoples and cultures -- Iberians and Africans -- Moving out across the oceans -- The first conquest -- The conquest on the peripheries -- pt. 2. Building empires and societies in a new world -- Land and labor -- State and empire -- Religion and empire -- Race, culture, and society -- Reforms and revolutions -- The onset of the wars for independence -- The wars for independence -- pt. 3. Forging a new order -- Liberals, conservatives, and disorder -- Liberals, positivists, and order -- Great Britain, the United States, and Latin America -- The pursuit of identity -- pt. 4. Democracy, development, and identity -- Diverging paths : many Latin Americas -- The path of revolution--before 1959 -- The path of revolution--since 1959 -- The path of reform -- Between reform and revolution -- Poverty and progress -- Race, culture, identity -- Epilogue : Latin America in the twenty-first century.

ISBN

• 1403980810 (alk. paper)
• 9781403980816 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2006100981

OCLC

• 77004214
• SCSB-10634847

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library