People and Issues in Latin American History: From Independence to the Present (People & Issues in Latin American History)

Special emphasis is given to social history and the analysis of the spectrum of revolutionary change since Bolivar. For the second edition the editor has expanded the section on Bolivar; revised and updated the section on economic affairs, and added new documents throughout the book. Sections of the book include: - Simon Bolivar - The Liberator - The Age of Caudillos - Juan Manuel de Rosas - Nineteenth-Century Economic Affairs - African Slavery in Brazil - Porfirio Diaz: Dictator of Mexico - Conflicting Latin and Yankee Attitudes at the Turn of the Twentieth Century - Eva Peron - Argentine Feminist - Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution -