The Penguin History of Latin AmericaPreface
Part One: The Age of Empire
1. Discovery and Conquest
2. Indians and Iberians
3. Spain in America
4. The Spanish Indies
5. Colonial Brazil
Part Two: The Challenge of the Modern World
6. Reform, Crisis and Independence
7. The Quest for Order: Conservatives and Liberals in the
Nineteenth Century
8. 'Civilization and Barbarism': Literary and Cultural Developments
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Part Three: The Twentieth Century
9. Nationalism and Development: An Overview
10. Mexico: Revolution and Stability
11. Brazil: Order and Progress
12. Cuba: Dependency, Nationalism and Revolution
13. Argentina: The Long Decline
14. Chile: Democracy, Revolution and Dictatorship
15. Identity and Modernity: Literary and Cultural Developments
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Part Four: Towards a New Era
16. Globalization and Reform: An Overview
Statistical Appendix
Further Reading
Maps
Glossary of Key Terms
Index of Subjects
Index of Names
Edwin Williamson is the King Alfonso XIII Professor Emeritus of Spanish Studies at the University of Oxford and an Emeritus Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. He had previously held the Forbes Chair of Hispanic Studies at the University of Edinburgh. He has held academic posts at Trinity College, Dublin and Birkbeck College, University of London and has been a visiting professor at Stanford University and the University of Sao Paulo. His most recent book is Borges- A Life.
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