A New History of Modern Latin America

Lawrence Clayton is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Alabama. He is the author of Bartolome de las Casas and the Conquest of the Americas and Peru and the United States: The Condor and the Eagle, among other titles. Michael L. Conniff is Professor Emeritus of History at San Jose State University, where he directed the Global Studies Initiative. His books include Africans in the Americas, Panama and the United States and Populism in Latin America, among others. Susan Gauss is Associate Professor of Latin American and Iberian Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She is the author of Made in Mexico: Regions, Nation, and the State in the Rise of Mexican Industrialism, 1920s-1940s.

Preface
Colonial Prologue

Part I: Independence and Turmoil

1. Background to Independence
2. The Coming of Independence to South America
3. The Independence Movements: On to Victory
4. The Aftermath of Independence
5. The Search for Political Order: 1830s-1850s

Part II: Nation-Building

6. Order and Progress
7. Citizen and Nation on the Road to Progress
8. The Development of Nations: Mexico and Central America
9. The Development of Nations: South America
10. Inventing Latin America
11. Changing Worlds and New Empires

Part III: Reform and Revolution

12. Early Populism in South America
13. Dictators of the Caribbean Basin
14. Divergent Paths to Modern Nationhood: Panama, Brazil, and Peru
15. Early Revolutionaries: Mexico, Brazil, and Nicaragua

Part IV: Confronting Global Challenges

16. The 1930s: Years of Depression and Upheaval
17. Latin America in World War II
18. The Classic Populists

Part V: Dictatorship, Development, and Democracy

19. Mexico since World War II
20. Colombian Conundrum
21. Caribbean Basin Countercurrents
22. The Cuban Revolution and its Aftermath
23. The National Security States
24. Democratization and Conflict in the Late Twentieth Century
25. Latin America in the Twenty-First Century

Notes
Bibliography
Glossary
Index