A History of Latin America

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A History of Latin America EIGHTH EDITION VOLUME 1 Ancient America to 1910 Benjamin Keen Keith Haynes The College of Saint R ...

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iii CONTENTS Maps vi Preface vii Introduction: The Geographic Background of Latin American History xiii PART ONE The Colonial He ...

iv CONTENTS Conquistadors 71 • Lope de Aguirre—An Underdog of the Conquest 74
4 The Economic Foundations of Colonial Life 76 T ...

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8 The Independence of Latin America 158 Background of the Wars of Independence 158 Creoles and Peninsular Spaniards ...

vi CONTENTS Advance 250 • Labor, Agrarian, and Middle-Class Unrest 250 Argentine Politics and Economy 252 Consolidation of the S ...

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T HE EIGHTH EDITION of A History of Latin Amer- ica has two major objectives. First, it seeks to make available to teacher ...

viii PREFACE cooperative communal, rather than competitive indi- vidualistic, values. For the modernization theorists, then, Lat ...

PREFACE ix More to the point, after 2002, Latin Americans elected a wave of progressive nationalist governments in Venezuela, Br ...

x PREFACE 2004, making it virtually impossible for working fami- lies to subsist on a single income. Even the World Bank’s cauti ...

PREFACE xi Eduardo Duhalde, denounced his predecessors’ free- market policies and pledged to create a “new model” of development ...

xii PREFACE the origin and evolution of the distinctive postwar popu- list experience in Argentina under Juan Domingo Perón and ...

xiii ATIN AMERICA, a region of startling physical contrasts, stretches 7, miles southward from the Mexican- U.S. border to the t ...

xiv INTRODUCTION: THE GEOGRAPHICAL BACKGROUND OF LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY and Monterrey, Mexico’s largest cities, are inland. Almo ...

INTRODUCTION: THE GEOGRAPHICAL BACKGROUND OF LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY xv TropicofCapric orn Equator 0 500Mi. 0 250 500Km. 250 Orin ...

xvi INTRODUCTION: THE GEOGRAPHICAL BACKGROUND OF LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY The historical record shows that the richness of Latin A ...

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2 PART ONE

7000 – 2300 BCE Domestication of maize, beans, and pumpkins 1500 – 400 BCE Development of Preclassic Olmec, Zapot ...

3 The Colonial Heritage of Latin America The Great City of Tenochtitlan (detail), 1945, by Diego Rivera. National Palace, Mexico ...