| Description |
xxxii, 680 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1. Introduction and overview -- What has happened : the course of events -- Changes in structures and processes -- The ethnic mosaic -- Economics and geography -- Leadership, violence, democracy, and religion -- Periodization -- 2. The colonial background -- Overview -- The colonizers' baggage -- What the Spanish built in North America -- What the Spanish built in South America -- Administrative changes in the 1700s -- The Portuguese-Brazilian variant -- Seeds of dissatisfaction and nationalist stirrings in Spanish America -- 3. A region of new nations from colonialism to consolidation -- Overview -- Brazil : peaceful separation and preservation of monarchy -- Mexico : Caudillo dominance and foreign intervention -- Argentina : Caudillo rule to elite democracy -- Uruguay : independent in name, not fact -- Paraguay : isolation that breeds delusions -- Northern and Western South America : Gran Colombia plus Peru divided into six nations -- Central America : easy independence, disunity, and diversity -- The Caribbean : Haiti's war for independence and the Dominican Republic -- Latin America in 1870 -- 4. Consolidation and development -- Overview -- Brazil : from monarch to republic -- Mexico : authoritarian modernization -- Argentina : national consolidation and elite "democracy" -- Colombia : an elite "democracy" degenerating into Civil War -- The second tier : divergent paths and uneven modernization -- Central America : different paths, but not to political development -- The Caribbean : better days for Haiti, but instability in the Dominican Republic -- Latin America in 1899 -- |
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5. The new century dawns -- Overview -- Brazil : the long process of escaping São Paulo domination -- Mexico : dictatorship, revolution, and civil war -- Argentina : The false dawn of democracy -- Colombia : reconstruction and maintenance of control -- The second tier : each in its own path -- Central America : more of the same, except for one -- The Caribbean : US intervention for all -- Latin America in 1929 -- 6. From the Great Depression into the Cold War -- Overview -- Brazil : the Vargas era -- Mexico : institutionalizing the revolution -- Argentina : from democracy's "false dawn" to Perón -- The situation in 1955 -- 7. Depression, the Cold War, and weak leadership -- Overview -- Colombia : from a promising start to rampant violence -- Peru : the army versus APRA, doom for democracy -- Venezuela : dictatorship, democracy, and dictatorship again -- Chile : redemocratization and the old dictator as a populist -- Bolivia : national trauma and revolution -- Ecuador : Velasco Ibarra versus the field -- Uruguay : hard days for democracy -- Paraguay : another war before recovery from the last catastrophe -- Central America : falling less behind -- The Caribbean : strongmen and the legacy of US occupation -- Latin America in 1955 -- 8. Inferno and the hard road back -- Overview -- Brazil : the road into and back from military takeover -- Mexico : institutionalized stability and economic viability -- Argentina : Peronism versus military rule -- Colombia : out of step in a positive Way -- Differing paths; varying patterns -- |
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9. Coups, military regimes, and ends of tunnels -- Overview -- Peru : out of and back into military rule -- Venezuela : establishment of democracy -- Chile : after a good start, disaster -- Bolivia : collapse of still-young democracy -- Ecuador : Velasco or the military -- Uruguay : the wilting of the flower of democracy -- Paraguay : durable dictatorship -- Similarities and differences -- 10. Central America and the Caribbean, 1956-1979 -- Overview -- Central America : frustration and travail -- The Caribbean : Castro, Duvalier, and Trujillo -- The new nations : enriching the laboratory -- Latin America in 1979 -- 11. Twilight of the generals and dawn of democracy -- Overview -- Brazil : transition to and consolidation of democracy -- Mexico : from a hegemonic system to full democracy -- Argentina : "civil-military twilight" into renovated Peronism -- Colombia : parallel power, rebels, and drug traffickers -- Reflections on the four pillars -- 12. Democratization's diverse paths toward democracy, 1980-1999 -- Overview -- Peru : disillusionment, infatuation with Fujimori, and illusions destroyed -- Venezuela : a rundown democratic system -- Chile : the way back to democracy -- Bolivia : to the future by way of the past -- Ecuador : catching up with neighbors -- Uruguay : regaining its democratic reputation -- Paraguay : better late than never -- Central America : different roads to democracy -- The Caribbean : falling behind the others -- The "new Caribbean" : rough going for many but not all -- Latin America at century's end -- |
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13. Entering the new century -- Overview -- Brazil : from Cardoso to Lula to 2006 -- Mexico : democracy established, progress stalemated -- Argentina : climbing back from crisis -- Colombia : getting serious with insurgency -- Peru : after Fujimori, political disenchantment -- Venezuela : Chávez, Caudillo, or would-be Castro? -- Chile : consolidating democracy's poster boy -- Ecuador : trouble incorporating the Indian masses -- Bolivia : pressure for a second revolution -- Uruguay : rise of the left -- Paraguay : still well behind, but moving -- Central America : consolidating democratic gains -- The Caribbean : little reason for optimism -- The new Caribbean : maturation and growing pains -- Where Latin America stands -- 14. Comparative perspectives on Latin America's political development -- Spurts of political development -- Conceptualization -- Conditioning factors -- Where the region stands -- Democracy : the only game in town? -- Violence and militarism -- 15. Conclusions and a look into the future -- Leadership : essential element or desirable catalyst? -- Is there a Latin American family of nations? -- Convergence, or each in its own way? -- Learn from experience, or plunging blindly ahead? -- Whither Latin America? -- Latin America and the world -- Epilogue. Latin America's critical 2006 elections. |
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Latin America -- Politics and government.
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Latin America. |
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Politics and government. |
| ISBN |
0813343410 alkaline paper |
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9780813343419 alkaline paper |
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