The Cambridge History of Latin America

This volume examines Latin American history from c. 1870 to 1930.

Leslie Bethell (Edited by)

9780521245173, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 29 May 1986

970 pages, 5 maps 28 tables
23.5 x 16.2 x 5.5 cm, 1.41 kg

"When publication is complete the Cambridge History will stand alone as a commanding survey of historical knowledge of the region and guide to its bibliography. Individual chapters are never less than authoritative, while some are models of concise scholarship. The editor has shown enormous determination in pursuing his contributors and shaping their contributions to fit in the overall design. On the basis of what has appeared so far, it is a remarkable achievement that demands congratulations and gratitude? a wealth of scholarship, of careful generalization, authoritative judgement and helpful direction? These volumes are a major historiographical achievement." - Economic History Review

The Cambridge History of Latin America is the first authoritative large-scale history of the whole of Latin America - Mexico and Central America, the Spanish-speaking Caribbean (and Haiti), Spanish South America and Brazil - from the first contacts between the native peoples of the Americas and Europeans in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries to the present day. A major work of collaborative international scholarship, The Cambridge History of Latin America has been planned, co-ordinated and edited by a single editor, Dr Leslie Bethell, Reader in Hispanic American and Brazilian History at University College London. It will be published in eight volumes. Each volume or set of volumes examines a period in the economic, social, political, intellectual and cultural history of Latin America.

List of maps
List of figures
General preface
Preface to Volumes IV and V
Part I. Mexico: 1. Mexico: restored republic and Porfiriato, 1867–1910 Friedrich Katz
2. The Mexican Revolution, 1910–1920 John Womack Jr.
3. Mexico: revolution and reconstruction in the 1920s Jean Meyer
Part II. Central America and The Caribbean: 4. Central America: the Liberal era, c. 1870–1930 Ciro F. S. Cardoso
5. Cuba, c. 1860–1934 Luis E. Aguilar
6. Puerto Rico, c. 1870–1940 Angel Quintero-Rivera
7. The Dominican Republic, c. 1870–1930 H. Hoetink
8. Haiti, c. 1870–1930 David Nicholls
Part III. The River Plate Republics: 9. The growth of the Argentine economy, c. 1870–1914 Roberto Cortés Conde
10. Argentina: society and politics, 1880–1916 Ezequiel Gallo
11. Argentina in 1914: the Pampas, the interior, Buenos Aires David Rock
12. Argentina from the first World War to the Revolution of 1930 David Rock
13. The formation of modern Uruguay, c. 1870–1930 Juan A. Oddone
14. Paraguay from the War of the Triple Alliance to the Chaco War, 1870–1932 Paul H. Lewis
Part IV. The Andean Republics: 15. Chile from the War of the Pacific to the world depression, 1880–1930 Harold Blakemore
16. Bolivia from the War of the Pacific to the Chaco War, 1880–1932 Herbert S. Klein
17. The origins of modern Peru, 1880–1930 Peter F. Klarén
18. Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela, c. 1880–1930 Malcolm Deas
Part V. Brazil: 19. The Brazilian economy, 1870–1930 Warren Dean
20. Brazil: the age of reform. 1870–1889 Emília Viotti Da Costa
21. Brazil: the social and political structure of the First Republic, 1889–1930 Boris Fausto
Bibliographical essays
Index.

Subject Areas: History of the Americas [HBJK]