New Countries

John Tutino is Professor of History at Georgetown University and author of Making a New World: Founding Capitalism in the Bajío and Spanish North America, also published by Duke University Press. He leads the Georgetown Americas Initiative, which sponsored the workshops which led to this volume. 

Acknowledgments  ix

Introduction: Revolutions, Nations, and a New Industrial World / John Tutino  1

Part I. Hemispheric Challenges

1. The Americas in the Rise of Industrial Capitalism / John Tutino  25

2. The Cádiz Liberal Revolution and Spanish American Independence / Roberto Brena  71

Part II. Atlantic Transformations

3. Union, Capitalism, and Slavery in the "Rising Empire" of the United States / Adam Rothman  107

4. From Slave Colony to Black Nation: Haiti's Revolutionary Inversion / Carolyn Fick  138

5. Cuban Counterpoint: Colonialism and Continuity in the Atlantic World / David Sartorius  175

6. Atlantic Transformations and Brazil's Imperial Independence / Kirsten Schultz  201

Part III. Spanish American Inversions

7. Becoming Mexico: The Conflictive Search for a North American Nation / Alfredo Avila and John Tutino  233

8. The Republic of Guatemala: Stitching Together a New Country / Jordana Dym  178

9. From One Patria, Two Nations in the Andean Heartland / Sarah C. Chambers  316

10. Indigenous Independence in Spanish South America / Erick D. Langer  350

Epilogue. Consolidating Divergence: The Americas and the World after 1850 / Erick D. Langer and John Tutino  376

Contributors  387

Index  389