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ix, 398 p. : ill., 1 map ; 23 cm. Simón Bolívar--the Liberator: Simón Bolívar : the life / Harold A. Bierck, Jr. Portrait of Bolívar / Daniel F. O'Leary. The Jamaica letter / Simón Bolívar. Message to the Congress of Bolivia / Simón Bolívar. Disillusion, rejection, and death / J.B. Trend -- The age of caudillos--Juan Manuel de Rosas: The human background of dictatorship, the gaucho / Domingo Faustino Sarmiento. What the French thought of Rosas / William Spence Robertson. An Argentine writer condemns Rosas in The slaughter house / Esteban Echeverría. Rosas continued the authoritarian colonial tradition / José Luis Romero. Rosas proved the limits as well as the strengths of caudillism / John Lynch. 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 / Sanford A. Mosk. Henry Meiggs, Yankee railroad builder / J. Fred Rippy. Emperor of the Caribbean / John Dos Passos. Emperor Pedro II gave the banker Baron Maua a hard time / Anyda Marchant. Francisco Javier Cisneros, the most successful railroad builder in nineteenth-century Colombia / Hernán Horna. The end of a dream : the railroad age in the Dominican Republic / Michiel Baud -- African slavery in Brazil: Slaves in Brazil have more tolerable lives than those in other countries / Henry Koster. "A horrid traffic" : life on a slave ship / Robert Walsh. Slavery is doomed in Brazil / D.P. Kidder and J.C. Fletcher. Slavery is a curse for both Blacks and whites / Herbert H. Smith. The majority of the Brazilians in the 1850s were living in the Middle Ages / Gilberto Freyre. Brazilian paternalism was a myth / Emilia Viotti da Costa -- Porfirio Díaz, dictator of Mexico: President Díaz : hero of the Americas / James Creelman. The Díaz system / John Kenneth Turner. The bullfight was a metaphor of Mexican society / William H. Beezley. The Díaz regime was unconcerned with the needs of the masses and ignorant of their potential power / Charles C. Cumberland. The Porfiriato : legend and reality / Daniel Cosío Villegas -- Conflicting Latin and Yankee attitudes at the turn of the twentieth century: Jose Martí, poet, journalist, Cuban revolutionary and moral conscience of "nuestra América" / Harold E. Davis. Did the United States represent the materialistic Caliban, and Latin America the idealistic Ariel? / José Enrique Rodó. Ode to Roosevelt / Rubâen Darâio. The United States is honor bound to maintain law and order in South America / George W. Crichfield. Ariel is still an essential book in the Latin American search for identity / Carlos Fuentes -- Eva Perâon--Argentine feminist: My mission in life / Eva Perón. The woman with the whip / María Flores. The gift of giving / Nicholas Fraser and Marysa Navarro. Eva in decline / Richard Bourne. Women : the forgotten half of Argentine history / Nancy Caro Hollander. The Peronist phenomenon and the significance of Eva / Richard Bourne -- Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution: The Castro revolution was the culmination of a long series of thwarted revolutions / Hugh Thomas. The duty of a revolutionary is to make the revolution : the Second Declaration of Havana / Fidel Castro. A North American journalist interviews Castro / Lee Lockwood. Castro at the age of sixty / Tad Szulc. Dilemmas of a revolution : Cuba in the 1990s / Juan M. del Aguila -- Hugo Chávez--a Venezuelan populist in the era of globalization: Globalization, neoliberalism, and neostructuralism defined / Robert N. Gwynne and Cristóbal Kay. Latin America's populist turn / Michael Shifter and Vinay Jawahar. Demystifying Venezuela's Hugo Chávez / Jennifer L. McCoy. Globalization has brought an increase in dependency / Hugo Chávez. Venezuela's Chávez as Everyman / Gary Payne. edited by Lewis Hanke and Jane M. Rausch. Includes bibliographical references (p. 389-397). cl----- Latin America History 1830- 100 F 1413 P419 2006 980/.03 9781558763906 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1558763902 (pbk. : alk. paper) 2006006782 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip069/2006006782.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip069/2006006782.html DLC 060224 20230404125908.0 89165