Research Catalog

Title

Exploitation, inequality, and resistance : a history of Latin America since Columbus / Mark A. Burkholder, Monica Rankin, Lyman L. Johnson.

Author

Burkholder, Mark A., 1943-

Publication

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Johnson, Lyman L.
• Rankin, Monica A., 1972-

Description

xxi, 456 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

This book tells the story of more than 500 years of Latin American history through the themes of exploitation, inequality, and resistance. Some examples of exploitation and inequality include slavery and other labor systems, sexual and gender exploitation, an inequitable economic relationship with foreign countries, repressive political systems through dictatorship and military regimes, and an unequal diplomatic relationship with the United States and other powerful nations. Despite deeply entrenched systems of injustice, Latin Americans remain notable for their resilience. Active and passive resistance to oppression and discrimination still persist in the twenty-first century, with native revolts and slave flights,unionization, the emergence of the Latin American women's movement, black-market economies, the emergence of populism, and various forms of revolt and revolution.

Subject

• To 1830
• 15.85 history of America
• Latin America > History > To 1830
• Latin America > History > 1830-
• Latin America
• Lateinamerika
• Latin America

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Eve of Atlantic Empires. Iberia ; Indigenous societies in "the Indies" ; Africa and the early slave trade -- Exploration, Columbus, and Early Settlement. An Age of Exploration ; The Caribbean experiment --Conquest and Failure on the Mainland. The fall of the Aztec Empire ; The fall of the Inka Empire ; Continued conquest ; Rewards of conquest ; Spectacular failures ; Brazil -- Invaders alter the Indies. Rethinking the world and identifying unknown peoples ; Demographic disaster ; Environmental change ; The Columbian exchange -- Tools of Empire : Administration. Imperial organizations for the Indies ; The sale of royal appointments in Spanish America ; Municipalities ; Native communities ; Administration in Brazil -- Tools of Empire : The Church. The early church ; The mature church ; The Inquisition -- Language, Education, and Idolatry. Instructing the natives ; Indians in the clergy? ; Formal education ; Campaigns to extirpate "idolatry-- Economies and Trade. Early tribute ; The evolution of labor systems ; Domestic economies and regional trade ; Mining : gold and silver ; Sugar ; Transoceanic trade -- Societies of Caste and Class. The elites ; The broad base of New World societies ; Family : the foundation of society ; Women in the societies and economies of the Indies ; The culture of honor -- Living in an Empire. Urban and rural environments ; Daily life -- Expanding Empires. The Spanish Empire from the late seventeenth century to the 1750s ; The reforms of Charles III ; Brazil in an Age of Expansion ; Protest, popular insurrections, and conspiracies -- The Age of Independence (I). Collapse ; A political revolution ; Early insurrections in Spanish America ; Rebellion in the Spanish Empire's periphery ; Rebellion in the old viceroyalties ; Portugal and Brazil in an Era of Revolution -- The Age of Independence (II). Spain loses its mainland empire ; Societies at war ; Social change ; Government and political life-- Colonies to Nations. Economic and fiscal consequences of Independence ; Centralism or federalism? ; Caudillos -- Nation-State Formation. Politics and parties ; Mexico and la Reforma ; Colombia and liberal reform ; Liberals and conservatives in Central America ; Venezuela ; Society and culture in the mid-nineteenth century -- Early Foreign Wars and Interventions. Inter-American wars ; Direct intervention and territorial acquisition (1830s-1860s) ; Manifest Destiny ; U.S.-Mexican War ; Filibusters ; Spain and the Dominican Republic ; French intervention ; Social and cultural impact of war ; War, nationalism, and national heroes ; Nationalism and the written word -- Progress and Modernization. Oligarchies ; Argentina's liberal oligarchy ; Mexico ; The Age of Guano in Peru ; Coffee elite in Central America ; Positivism ; Mexico ; Brazil ; Venezuela and the Guzmanato ; Peru ; Social limits of progress-- The Age of Informal Imperialism. New attitudes in the United States ; Expansion of U.S. trade ; Venezuela and the boundary dispute ; Cuba ; Panama ; Intellectual response to Imperialism ; Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine -- Early Populism. Populist responses ; Populism and the labor movement ; Early populism in South America ; Social and cultural dynamics ; Revolutionary populism ; Indigenismo -- Depression and World War. The Great Depression in Latin America ; Latin America and the world ; Changes in populism ; Women's suffrage ; Mass media and a national imaginary -- Onset of Cold War. Leftism in Latin America ; Postwar economic trends ; Consumers and culture at mid-century ; Cold War security and politics -- Cuban Revolution. Interventions and dictatorship ; Revolution ; New government and initial U.S. reaction ; Legacy of the Cuban Revolution-- National Security State and Dirty Wars. National security state defined ; The United States and national security doctrine ; The emergence of national security state trends ; Bureaucratic authoritarianism ; Cultural expression under authoritarianism -- Debt and the Lost Decade. Debt crisis ; Challenges to neoliberalism ; The Cuban exception to neoliberalism ; Cultural production in the lost decade and the special period ; Latin American tourism -- Violence and Security in the Late Twentieth Century. Civil war in Guatemala ; Other violence in Central American ; The United States and the Contras ; Democratization and the end of Cold War ; The illegal drug trade ; Social and cultural impact of violence -- Latin America in the Twenty-First Century. The turn "left" ; Regional integration ; New developments in drug trafficking ; Immigration ; Globalization.

ISBN

• 9780199837618
• 0199837619
• 9780190683818 (updf) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2016053838
• 40027547741

OCLC

• 964241504
• SCSB-11692726

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library