The Cambridge History of Latin America

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Leslie Bethell
Cambridge University Press, 1984 - History - 945 pages
Volume III opens with five chapters which survey the revolutions and wars of independence in Spanish America and the relatively peaceful transition to independence in Brazil during the first quarter of the nineteenth century - after three centuries of Spanish and Portuguese rule. Part Two is devoted to the Caribbean and consists of chapters on Haiti, the former French colony and the first independent Latin American republic, Santo Domingo, the former Spanish colony, and on Cuba, which remained a Spanish colony, from the late eighteenth century to c. 1870. Parts Three and Four, the central core of this volume, examine the economic, social and political history of Latin America during the first half-century after independence. There are two general chapters on post independence Spanish America, followed by chapters on Mexico, Central America, Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia, Chile and the River Plate republics, and there are two chapters on the empire of Brazil.
 

Contents

The origins of Spanish American Independence
3
The Independence of Mexico and Central America
51
The Independence of Spanish South America
95
The Independence of Brazil
157
International politics and Latin American
197
A note on the Church and the Independence of Latin
229
1790c 1870
237
Cuba from the middle of the eighteenth century
277
Central America from Independence to c 1870
471
the first half
507
Peru and Bolivia from Independence to the War
539
Chile from Independence to the War of the Pacific
583
The River Plate Republics from Independence to
615
Brazil from Independence to the middle of
679
Brazil from the middle of the nineteenth century
747
The literature music and art of Latin America from
797

Economy and society in postIndependence Spanish
299
Politics ideology and society in postIndependence
347
America 229
418
ΙΟ Mexico from Independence to 1867
423
Bibliographical essays
841
Index
921
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