TY - BOOK AU - Hanke,Lewis AU - Rausch,Jane M. TI - People and issues in Latin American history: sources and interpretations SN - 9781558763906 (pbk. : alk. paper) AV - 100 F 1413 P419 2006 U1 - 980/.03 PY - 2006/// CY - Princeton, NJ PB - Markus Wiener Publishers KW - Latin America KW - History KW - 1830- N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 389-397); 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip069/2006006782.html ER -