History of Latin America - Sugar, Colonialism, Revolution

history of Latin America

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Introduction
The background
- The indigenous world and the word “Indian”
- Types of Western Hemisphere societies
  - Sedentary peoples
  - Semisedentary peoples
  - Nonsedentary peoples
- The Iberians
  - Cities
  - Family
  - Ethnic diversity and its results
  - The overseas tradition
Early Latin America
- Spanish America
  - The Caribbean phase
    - The city
    - Indians and Spaniards
    - A new Spanish subculture
  - Conquest in the central mainland areas
    - Conquest of Mexico
    - Conquest of Peru
  - Conquest society in the central mainland areas
    - The central-area encomienda
    - Artisans
    - Spanish women
    - Africans
    - Indians among Spaniards
    - Commerce
    - Mining
    - Institutional, legal, and intellectual developments
    - Trunk lines
  - Postconquest indigenous society
  - The central areas in the mature period
  - The Spanish fringe
- Brazil
  - The early period
  - The sugar age
  - The south
- Spanish America in the age of the Bourbons
  - Economy and society
  - Transformation of the east coast
    - Argentina
    - Venezuela
    - The Caribbean islands
  - The Bourbon reforms
- Brazil after 1700
- Preindependence phenomena
The independence of Latin America
The wars of independence, 1808–26
- Spanish America
  - The southern movement in South America
  - The north and the culmination of independence
  - Mexico and Central America
- Brazil
Building new nations, 1826–50
- Political models and the search for authority
  - Constitutions
  - Disorder and caudillismo
- Economic obstacles
- Social change
  - Mobility and hierarchy
  - Social institutions
The new order, 1850–1910
- Political and economic transitions, 1850–70
- The liberal oligarchic age, 1870–1910
  - Export economies
  - Capitalism and social transitions
  - Oligarchies in power
New order emerging, 1910–45
- Economic and social developments
  - World war and world trade
  - The emerging force of nationalism
  - Population and social change
- Challenges to the political order
  - The Mexican Revolution
  - Broadening of political participation
  - Expanding role of the state
  - Socialism, communism, fascism
  - Good Neighbor Policy and World War II
Latin America since the mid-20th century
- The postwar world, 1945–80
  - Economic agenda and patterns of growth
  - Developments in social policy
  - The United States and Latin America in the Cold War era
  - Impact of the Cuban Revolution
  - Political alternatives
    - Movement toward democracy
    - The advent of populism
    - Christian Democracy
    - Bureaucratic authoritarianism
- Latin America at the end of the 20th century
  - Debt crisis
  - Return to democracy
  - A shift to neoliberalism
  - Religious trends
  - A changing society

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