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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.

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• 1 Introduction
• 2 The Founding of a New Political System
• 3 The Economic and Social Dimensions
• 4 Mexico in Decline (1821-1850)
• 5 Andean South America to Midcentury: Consolidation of Independence
• 6 The Road to the Dictatorship in the Platine Area
• 7 The Rise of the Brazilian Monarchy (1850-1885)
• 8 Latin America at Midcentury: A Quickening Pace of Change
• 9 The Heyday of the Liberal Reform in Spanish America (1850-1880) I: Mexico and Columbia
• 10 The Heyday of Liberal Reform in Spanish America (1850-1880) II: Argentina, Chile, and Some Other Cases
• 11 The Flowering and the Decline of the Brazilian Empire (1850-1885)
• 12 The Caribbean Vortex in the Nineteenth Century: Cuba and Central America
• 13 The Liberal Legacy and the Quest for Development
• Notes
• Appendixes
• Chronology
• Further Reading
• Index

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This summary view of Latin America from the early 1800s to 1880 will be a useful supplement to Spanish America After Independence, c. 1820 - c. 1870, ed. by Leslie Bethell (1987) because it offers a slightly broader chronological and regional coverage of the 19th century. After a brief sketch of the colonial and independence periods, the authors portray key political figures, trends, and events, noting the importance of factions and the appearance of political parties. Wars and diplomacy receive attention. The treatment of society supplies information on diverse life-styles as well as social classes. Economic features are explained in terms of domestic and international characteristics. Two appendixes chart population and export statistics. The book's readable style obviates the need for a glossary, but there is a chronology that reviews significant events. The bibliography is a useful essay compiling recent works in English. For general and academic readers, upper-division undergraduate level and above. D. M. Flusche Eastern Michigan University

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