John Chasteen has given us the most readable and highly regarded history of Latin America of our times.
Table of Contents
List of Maps 9 Time Line 10 Acknowledgment 12 1. First Stop, the Present 15 Countercurrents: A Statistical Portrait 25 2. Encounter 29 Countercurrents: Friar Bartolome de las Casas 58 3. Colonial Crucible 63 Countercurrents: Colonial Rebellions 88 4. Independence 93 Countercurrents: The Gaze of Outsiders 114 5. Postcolonial Blues 119 Countercurrents: The Power of Outsiders 144 6. Progress 149 Countercurrents: More International Wars 175 7. Neocolonialism 179 Countercurrents: New Immigration to Latin America 207 8. Nationalism 213 Countercurrents: Populist Leaders of the Twentieth Century 240 9. Revolution 245 Countercurrents: Liberation Theology 270
