The first comprehensive survey of Latin America in the formative period from the attainment of independence to 1880, when a quickening of economic growth and relative political stabilization ushered in a new phase of development, this book combines a review of issues and problems pertaining to the region as a whole with more detailed discussion of specific national case studies. It examines the preliminary experiments in nation-building throughout Latin America and the conscious attempts in most countries to adopt a liberal model of socioeconomic and political development. Incorporating important new scholarship on Brazil, Argentina, and Colombia, the authors provide complete coverage of the entire region during a critical era that shaped contemporary Latin America.

The Emergence of Latin America in the Nineteenth Century

History

Bushnell, David

MacAulay, Neill

Americas

Oxford University Press

Here for the first time is a comprehensive yet compact history of Latin America in the formative period from independence to 1880. Covering all the major countries, The Emergence of Latin America in the Nineteenth Century combines a review of the issues and problems affecting the region as a whole with illuminating in-depth discussions of particular national case studies, and is written in a style that is both accessible and engaging. The authors focus on the preliminary experiments in nation-building throughout Latin America and explore the conscious--if perhaps misguided--attempts by most leaders to adopt a liberal mode of both socioeconomic and political development. No pat answers are provided, but the nagging questions of Latin American "instability" and "underdevelopment" are examined, and the data and factors that come into play are presented and explained to students. Incorporating the most recent research on Brazil, Argentina, and Colombia, this unique, single-volume survey provides complete and up-to-date coverage of the entire region during the critical era that saw the formation and consolidation of its distinctive national institutions, laying the groundwork for contemporary Latin America.

This lively and accessible text on the period of independence (the nineteenth century) covering all the major countries of Latin America has become the standard work in the field. David Bushnell and Neill Macaulay focus on the preliminary experiments in nation-building throughout Latin America in this critical era and explore the attempts by most leaders to adopt a liberal mode of both socioeconomic and political development. For the second edition, the authors have added new material based on recently published research and augmented references to areas of special contemporary interest - racim, women and the environment. The bibliography also has been updated.

Fully revised and updated, this unique single-volume survey provides complete and even more up-to-date coverage of the entire region during the critical era that saw the formation and consolidation of its distinctive national institutions, laying the groundwork for contemporary Latin America. Covering all the major countries, the new edition features a new treatment of Peru based on important recent research, important new material on elections in imperial Brazil and the Mexican economy in 1810-55, and a fully updated bibliography. The authors focus on the preliminary experiments in nation-building throughout Latin America and explore the conscious--if perhaps misguided--attempts by most leaders to adopt a liberal mode of both socioeconomic and political development. No pat answers are provided, but the nagging questions of Latin American "instability" and "underdevelopment" are examined, and the data and factors that come into play are presented and explained.

This biography highlights the political career and principles of South American revolutionary Simón Bolívar. The titles in the new Library of World Biography series make ideal supplements for World History survey courses or other courses in the history curriculum where figures in history are explored. Paperback, brief and inexpensive, each interpretative biography in this series focuses on a figure whose actions and ideas significantly influenced the course of World history, and relates the life of its subject to the broader themes and developments of the times.

Simon Bolivar: Liberation and Disappointment (Library of World Biography Series)

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Pearson

The Santander Regime In Gran Colombia

Franklin Classics

Colombia's status as the fourth largest nation in Latin America and third most populous—as well as its largest exporter of such disparate commodities as emeralds, books, processed cocaine, and cut flowers—makes this, the first history of Colombia written in English, a much-needed book. It tells the remarkable story of a country that has consistently defied modern Latin American stereotypes—a country where military dictators are virtually unknown, where the political left is congenitally weak, and where urbanization and industrialization have spawned no lasting populist movement. There is more to Colombia than the drug trafficking and violence that have recently gripped the world's attention. In the face of both cocaine wars and guerrilla conflict, the country has maintained steady economic growth as well as a relatively open and democratic government based on a two-party system. It has also produced an impressive body of art and literature. David Bushnell traces the process of state-building in Colombia from the struggle for independence, territorial consolidation, and reform in the nineteenth century to economic development and social and political democratization in the twentieth. He also sheds light on the modern history of Latin America as a whole.

The Making of Modern Colombia: A Nation in Spite of Itself

University of California Press

The Santander Regime in Gran Colombia (University of Delaware Monograph Series)

Praeger

Legare Street Press

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The Emergence of Latin America in the Nineteenth Century

The Emergence of Latin America in the Nineteenth Century

The Emergence of Latin America in the Nineteenth Century

The Emergence of Latin America in the Nineteenth Century

Simon Bolivar: Liberation and Disappointment (Library of World Biography Series)

The Santander Regime In Gran Colombia

The Santander Regime In Gran Colombia

The Making of Modern Colombia: A Nation in Spite of Itself

The Santander Regime in Gran Colombia (University of Delaware Monograph Series)

The Santander Regime In Gran Colombia