The Cambridge History of Latin AmericaLeslie Bethell 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 |
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