Bücher der Reihe Latin American Silhouettes

The customary division of Latin American history into colonial and modern periods has come into question. This book demonstrates that there was a middle period in Latin America's historical evolution since the European Conquest.

The nineteenth century was a period of peak popularity for travel to Latin America, where political independence was accompanied by loosened travel restrictions. Such expeditions resulted in numerous travel accounts, most by men.

The United Fruit Company (UFCO) developed an unprecedented relationship with Guatemala. By 1944, UFCO owned 566,000 acres, employed 20,000 people, and operated 96 per cent of Guatemala's 719 miles of railroad.

For Central America, the last third of the twentieth century was a time of dramatic change in which most countries shifted from dictatorships to formal political democracy.

Offers students with an understanding of the crisis in Colombia. This book focuses on the 1990s, a decade that witnessed a strengthening of the guerrilla insurgency in the Americas.

Offers a sweeping panorama of America's tropical empire in the age spanned by the two Roosevelts and a detailed narrative of US military intervention in the Caribbean.

The Mothers began in the 1970s as a group of housewives visiting prisons and barracks in search of their missing children. This book traces the history of the Mothers, their current agenda and their continuing struggle to bring the murderers of their children to justice.

Probes into the life and times of Mario Moreno, Latin America's famous film star from the 1940s to the 1970s. This book illuminates the social and cultural history of twentieth-century Mexico. It is suitable for courses on Mexican history and Latin American film.

The figure of Juan Manuel de Rosas dominates the history of Argentina in the first half of the 19th century. This work studies the forces which made and sustained Rosas, and examines the roots of the caudillo tradition in Argentina through exploring his career.

Explores 150 years of Mexico's economic and rural development, a period when one of history's great empires was trying to extract more resources from its most important colony, and when an arguably capitalist economy was both expanding and taking deeper root.

The regime of Juan Per-n is one of the most studied topics of Argentina's contemporary history. This book provides a fresh perspective on the intriguing Argentinian leader. It focuses on the cultural and symbolic dimensions of Per-nism and populism, and explores the creation of myths, symbols, and rituals that constituted his political imagery.

Tells the story of Paraguay's most notorious ruler Francisco Solano Lopez. Despite the heroic stature he gained after his death, Lopez was a monumentally flawed leader who made the disastrous decisions in 1864 and 1865 to invade Brazil and Argentina. This work offers an analysis of Paraguayan politics and Lopez's life and erratic rule.

Presents a study of Plutarco El'as Calles and the Mexican Revolution. This book traces the remarkable life story of a key figure in Mexico's history. It draws on an array of archival evidence from Mexico, US, and Europe to explore Calles's origins and political trajectory, leading to his reformist, yet authoritarian presidency from 1924 to 1928.

Considers the physical changes in Mexico City's built environment, using them as a means to evaluate the extent and direction of regime consolidation of successive governments from 1920 to 1940. This work offers a study of Mexican political history as well as Latin American urban, social, and cultural history; cultural nationalism; and more.

Explores why the United States pursues failed policies in Latin America. Reviewing official policy and its defenders and critics alike, this book focuses on the reasons for the failure of US policies and their disastrous significance for Latin America and the United States alike.

Dealing with the life of Sim-n Bol'var, this book looks at the impact of the Liberator as warrior, political thinker and leader, internationalist, continentalist, reformer, and revolutionary. Presenting an appraisal of Bol'var's role in the Spanish-American wars of independence, it offers an explanation of why the Bol'varian legend has persisted.

Looks at life in Cuba, including descriptions of its people and places. This book illuminates the human face of Cuba, which over the years has largely been hidden.

This unique volume examines revolutionary Mexico's state governors-the most significant intermediaries between the national government and the people it ruled. Leading scholars study governors from ten different states of Mexico during the eventful first half of the twentieth century to demonstrate the diversity of the governors' experiences over time, as well as the waxing and waning of strong governorship as an institution that disappeared in the powerful national regime created in the 1940s and 1950s. The only book that considers the state governors in comparative perspective, this invaluable study offers a fresh view of regionalism and the Revolution.

Examines the tragic development and resolution of Latin America's human rights crisis of the 1970s and 1980s. This book focuses on state terrorism in Chile under General Augusto Pinochet and in Argentina during the Dirty War (1976-1983). It offers an exploration of the reciprocal relationship between Argentina and Chile and human rights movements.

A biography of one of America's most successful immigrants. After arriving in America in 1846, Irish-born William R. Grace worked his way up from ordinary seaman to become master of a vast commercial empire, reformer of the Democratic Party and New York City's first Catholic mayor.

Mexico's views of the United States have been characterized as stridently anti-American, but various policy changes in Mexico mark a fundamental transformation in the relationship.

Here, Professor Blanchard examines why slavery managed to survive for more than three decades after Peru declared its independence despite anti-slavery legislation passed by the liberators at that time. The book focuses on the economics of Peruvian slavery, slave life and the abolition movement.