The Second Conquest Of Latin America

Author : Steven C. Topik
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292785666
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Second Conquest of Latin America written by Steven C. Topik and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1850 and 1930, Latin America's integration into the world economy through the export of raw materials transformed the region. This encounter was nearly as dramatic as the conquistadors' epic confrontation with Native American civilizations centuries before. An emphasis on foreign markets and capital replaced protectionism and self-sufficiency as the hemisphere's guiding principles. In many ways, the means employed during this period to tie Latin America more closely to western Europe and North America resemble strategies currently in vogue. Much can be learned from analyzing the first time that Latin Americans embraced export-led growth. This book focuses on the impact of three key export commodities: coffee, henequen, and petroleum. The authors concentrate on these rather than on national economies because they illustrate more concretely the interaction between the environment, natural and human resources, and the world economy. By analyzing how different products spun complex webs of relationships with their respective markets, the essays in this book illuminate the tensions and contradictions found in the often conflictive relationship between the local and the global, between agency and the not-so-invisible hand. Ultimately, the contributors argue that the results of the "second conquest" were not one-sided as Latin Americans and foreigners together forged a new economic order—one riddled with contradictions that Latin America is still attempting to resolve today.

Author : Pim de Zwart
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108426999
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origins of Globalization written by Pim de Zwart and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals how global trade shaped early modern economic, social and political development, and inaugurated the first era of globalization.

Author : Matthew Restall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108416403
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Latin America in Colonial Times written by Matthew Restall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-14 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition is a concise history of Latin America from the Aztecs and Incas to Independence.

Author : Donald Emmet Worcester
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Growth and Culture of Latin America: From conquest to independence written by Donald Emmet Worcester and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert B. Kent
Publisher : Guilford Publications
ISBN 13 : 1462525520
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Latin America, Second Edition written by Robert B. Kent and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2016-02-26 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular among students for its engaging, accessible style, this text provides an authoritative overview of Latin America's human geography as well as its regional complexity. Extensively revised to reflect the region's ongoing evolution in the first decades of the 21st century, the second edition's alternating thematic and regional chapters trace Latin America's historical development while revealing the diversity of its people and places. Coverage encompasses cultural history, environment and physical geography, urban development, agriculture and land use, social and economic processes, and the contemporary patterns of the Latin American diaspora. Pedagogical features include vivid topical vignettes, end-of-chapter recommended readings and other resources, and 217 photographs, maps, and figures. New to This Edition *Discussions of climate change and its impacts, the demise of the Monroe doctrine, neoliberal agriculture, the growing influence of Chinese investment, and other new topics. *13 new vignettes highlighting current issues such as the thaw in United States-Cuba relations, drug violence in Mexico, aerial gondolas in the Andes, and the first Latin pope. *Annotated website and film recommendations for most chapters. *The latest development trends, population and economic data, and current events of local and global significance. *26 new photographs, maps, and figures.

Author : Cortes Society, New York
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Documents and Narratives Concerning the Discovery and Conquest of Latin America written by Cortes Society, New York and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kimberle S. López
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826263224
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Latin American Novels of the Conquest written by Kimberle S. López and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The fictionalized explorers and conquistadors represented in this corpus all identify with certain aspects of Amerindian culture - significantly, those elements that are most distinct from European culture, such as cannibalism and human sacrifice - but also feel the need to distance themselves from these "others" in order to protect their own European cultural identity. In most cases, the conquistadors themselves are represented as outsiders within the enterprise of imperialism, due to ethnic, religious, or sexual differences from the norm. This representation turns the gaze inward toward the "other" within European culture, underscoring the complex origins of Latin American cultures in the violent encounter between the Amerindians and the conquistadors." "By examining these issues, Lopez's Latin American Novels of the Conquest illuminates the ways in which Latin American novelists used their literary imaginations to embody their ambivalence regarding their own transcultural heritage as children of both the colonized and the colonizer."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Pedro de Cieza de Leon
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822382504
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Discovery and Conquest of Peru written by Pedro de Cieza de Leon and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1999-02-11 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dazzled by the sight of the vast treasure of gold and silver being unloaded at Seville’s docks in 1537, a teenaged Pedro de Cieza de León vowed to join the Spanish effort in the New World, become an explorer, and write what would become the earliest historical account of the conquest of Peru. Available for the first time in English, this history of Peru is based largely on interviews with Cieza’s conquistador compatriates, as well as with Indian informants knowledgeable of the Incan past. Alexandra Parma Cook and Noble David Cook present this recently discovered third book of a four-part chronicle that provides the most thorough and definitive record of the birth of modern Andean America. It describes with unparalleled detail the exploration of the Pacific coast of South America led by Francisco Pizarro and Diego de Almagro, the imprisonment and death of the Inca Atahualpa, the Indian resistance, and the ultimate Spanish domination. Students and scholars of Latin American history and conquest narratives will welcome the publication of this volume.

Author : Matthew Restall
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271027584
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Invading Guatemala written by Matthew Restall and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The invasions of Guatemala -- Pedro de Alvarado's letters to Hernando Cortes, 1524 -- Other Spanish accounts -- Nahua accounts -- Maya accounts

Author : Marshall C. Eakin
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1403980810
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Latin America written by Marshall C. Eakin and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-06-12 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description