02475nam 2200457 450 991016502100332120180710150450.01-4422-3572-1(CKB)3710000001064838(MiAaPQ)EBC4809913(PPN)223735353(EXLCZ)99371000000106483820170307h20172017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierLatin America since independence two centuries of continuity and change /Thomas C. WrightLanham, Maryland :Rowman & Littlefield,2017.©20171 online resource (375 pages) illustrations, mapsLatin American Silhouettes1-4422-3571-3 1-4422-3570-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Part I. Colonial roots -- Origins of the colonial legacies -- Part II. Independence and its challenges, 1790s-1870s -- The independence of Latin America -- The age of caudillos -- Reflections on the colonial legacies, 1790s-1870s -- Part III. Exports, oligarchies, and yankees, 1870s-1930 -- The export economies -- Political consolidation and social change -- Rise of the yankee -- Reflections on the colonial legacies, 1870s-1930 -- Part IV. Revolution, depression, and Cold War, 1930-1959 -- The Mexican Revolution -- Depression, political change, and Cold War -- Reflections on the colonial legacies, 1930-1959 -- Part V. The era of the Cuban Revolution, 1959-1990 -- The Cuban Revolution -- The Cuban Revolution, Latin America, and the United States -- The reaction: repression and state terrorism -- Reflections on the colonial legacies, 1959-1990 -- Part VI. Contemporary Latin America -- Neoliberalism, democracy, the pink tide, and other developments since 1990 -- Reflections on the colonial legacies, 1990-present -- Conclusion: colonial legacies and today's Latin America.Latin American silhouettes.PostcolonialismLatin AmericaLatin AmericaHistory19th centuryLatin AmericaHistory20th centuryPostcolonialism980/.02Wright Thomas C.879473MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910165021003321Latin America since independence2867875UNINA