People and issues in Latin American history. sources and interpretations / From independence to the present :
From independence to the present
edited by Lewis Hanke and Jane M. Rausch.
- 3a ed.
- Princeton, NJ : Markus Wiener Publishers, c2006.
- ix, 398 p. : ill., 1 map ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 389-397).
Simón Bolívar--the Liberator: Simón Bolívar : the life / Portrait of Bolívar / The Jamaica letter / Message to the Congress of Bolivia / Disillusion, rejection, and death / The age of caudillos--Juan Manuel de Rosas: The human background of dictatorship, the gaucho / What the French thought of Rosas / An Argentine writer condemns Rosas in The slaughter house / Rosas continued the authoritarian colonial tradition / Rosas proved the limits as well as the strengths of caudillism / Rosas still lives in the hearts of some Argentines! -- Nineteenth-century economic affairs--did railroad hold the key to progress?: Latin America and the world economy, 1850-1914 / Henry Meiggs, Yankee railroad builder / Emperor of the Caribbean / Emperor Pedro II gave the banker Baron Maua a hard time / Francisco Javier Cisneros, the most successful railroad builder in nineteenth-century Colombia / The end of a dream : the railroad age in the Dominican Republic / African slavery in Brazil: Slaves in Brazil have more tolerable lives than those in other countries / "A horrid traffic" : life on a slave ship / Slavery is doomed in Brazil / Slavery is a curse for both Blacks and whites / The majority of the Brazilians in the 1850s were living in the Middle Ages / Brazilian paternalism was a myth / Porfirio Díaz, dictator of Mexico: President Díaz : hero of the Americas / The Díaz system / The bullfight was a metaphor of Mexican society / The Díaz regime was unconcerned with the needs of the masses and ignorant of their potential power / The Porfiriato : legend and reality / Conflicting Latin and Yankee attitudes at the turn of the twentieth century: Jose Martí, poet, journalist, Cuban revolutionary and moral conscience of "nuestra América" / Did the United States represent the materialistic Caliban, and Latin America the idealistic Ariel? / Ode to Roosevelt / The United States is honor bound to maintain law and order in South America / Ariel is still an essential book in the Latin American search for identity / Eva Perâon--Argentine feminist: My mission in life / The woman with the whip / The gift of giving / Eva in decline / Women : the forgotten half of Argentine history / The Peronist phenomenon and the significance of Eva / Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution: The Castro revolution was the culmination of a long series of thwarted revolutions / The duty of a revolutionary is to make the revolution : the Second Declaration of Havana / A North American journalist interviews Castro / Castro at the age of sixty / Dilemmas of a revolution : Cuba in the 1990s / Hugo Chávez--a Venezuelan populist in the era of globalization: Globalization, neoliberalism, and neostructuralism defined / Latin America's populist turn / Demystifying Venezuela's Hugo Chávez / Globalization has brought an increase in dependency / Venezuela's Chávez as Everyman / Harold A. Bierck, Jr. Daniel F. O'Leary. Simón Bolívar. Simón Bolívar. J.B. Trend -- Domingo Faustino Sarmiento. William Spence Robertson. Esteban Echeverría. José Luis Romero. John Lynch. Sanford A. Mosk. J. Fred Rippy. John Dos Passos. Anyda Marchant. Hernán Horna. Michiel Baud -- Henry Koster. Robert Walsh. D.P. Kidder and J.C. Fletcher. Herbert H. Smith. Gilberto Freyre. Emilia Viotti da Costa -- James Creelman. John Kenneth Turner. William H. Beezley. Charles C. Cumberland. Daniel Cosío Villegas -- Harold E. Davis. José Enrique Rodó. Rubâen Darâio. George W. Crichfield. Carlos Fuentes -- Eva Perón. María Flores. Nicholas Fraser and Marysa Navarro. Richard Bourne. Nancy Caro Hollander. Richard Bourne -- Hugh Thomas. Fidel Castro. Lee Lockwood. Tad Szulc. Juan M. del Aguila -- Robert N. Gwynne and Cristóbal Kay. Michael Shifter and Vinay Jawahar. Jennifer L. McCoy. Hugo Chávez. Gary Payne.