A history of Latin America /
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Natura: | Libro |
Lingua: | Inglés |
Pubblicazione: |
England :
Penguin Books,
1967.
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Edizione: | 1a ed. rev. |
Serie: | Pelican books ;
620 |
Soggetti: |
Sommario:
- Introduction
- The human background
- Discovery and conquest
- The spanish empire
- Portuguese Brazil
- Other europeans
- The emancipation of spanish America
- Emancipation and the Caribbean
- The emancipation of Brazil
- The age of the "Caudillos"
- Ecoomic transformation
- Brazil: from empire to republic
- "Caudillos" and business
- The United states rises to pre-eminence
- Social reform and revolution
- Latin American characteristics.