Americanos: Latin America's Struggle for Independence

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Oxford University Press, 2008 M01 28 - 240 páginas
A premier volume in Oxford's Pivotal Moments in World History series, Americanos offers an engagingly written, compact history of the Latin American wars of independence. Proceeding almost cinematically, scene by vivid scene, John Charles Chasteen introduces the reader to lead players, basic concepts, key events, and dominant trends, braided together in a single, taut narrative. He vividly depicts the individuals and events of those tumultuous years, capturing the gathering forces for independence, the clashes of troops and decisions of leaders, and the rich, elaborate tapestry of Latin American societies as they embraced nationhood.
 

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Why Americanos?
1
1 Discovering América 17991805
6
Maps
7
2 Pillars of the Crown 18061810
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3 NotSoCivil Wars 18101812
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4 A Lost Cause? 18121815
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5 Independence Won 18161824
123
6 Nation Building Begins 18251840
159
The Legacy Endures
182
Notes
189
Glossary
193
Sources and Readings
195
Index
209
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John Charles Chasteen is Patterson Distinguished Term Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Both a writer and a translator, his books include Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America.

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