A History of Latin America

vi CONTENTS

Advance 250 • Labor, Agrarian, and
Middle-Class Unrest 250

Argentine Politics and Economy 252
Consolidation of the State 252 • Economic
Boom and Inflation 252 • The Formation
of the Radical Party 254 • Electoral Reform
and the Growth of the Labor Movement 255

Chilean Politics and Economy 255
Nitrates and War 255 • Aftermath of the
War of the Pacific 256 • Balmaceda’s
Nationalistic Policies 258 • The
Parliamentary Republic, Foreign Economic
Domination, and the Growth of the Working
Class 260

Brazilian Politics and Economy 260

The Fall of the Monarchy 260 • The

New Republic 262 • The Economic

Revolution 263

Central American Politics and

Economy 265

Guatemala, 1865–1898 265 • Nicaragua,

1870–1909 266 • El Salvador,

1876–1911 267

Venezuelan Politics and Economy 268

Colombian Politics and Economy 270

Rafael Núñez, the “Regeneration,” and the

War of a Thousand Days, 1880–1903 271

Index I-

MAPS

Geographic Features of Middle America • xiv

Geographic Features of South America • xv

Principal Sites of Pre-Conquest Culture in Mesoamerica • 16

Valley of Mexico • 25

Growth of the Inca Empire, 1460–1532 • 32

Spain in the Time of Christopher Columbus • 44

Early Spanish Voyages in the Caribbean • 59

Colonial Conquest, Trade, and Enslavement in the Making of Latin

America • 84

Viceroyalties and Audiencias in Sixteenth-Century Spanish

America • 97

Colonial Brazil • 123

Viceroyalties in Latin America in 1780 • 144

Latin America in 1830 • 198

War and National Development in Paraguay and Bolivia,

1864–1938 • 210

War of the Pacifi c • 257