A history of Latin America /

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Autore principale: Pendle, George
Natura: Libro
Lingua:Inglés
Pubblicazione: England : Penguin Books, 1967.
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.