The Emergence of Latin America in the Nineteenth Century

By David Bushnell, Neill W. Macaulay, Jr., Neill Macaulay

Book Overview

Fully revised and updated, this unique single-volume survey provides complete and even more up-to-date coverage of the entire region during the critical era that saw the formation and consolidation of its distinctive national institutions, laying the groundwork for contemporary Latin America. Covering all the major countries, the new edition features a new treatment of Peru based on important recent research, important new material on elections in imperial Brazil and the Mexican economy in 1810-55, and a fully updated bibliography. The authors focus on the preliminary experiments in nation-building throughout Latin America and explore the conscious--if perhaps misguided--attempts by most leaders to adopt a liberal mode of both socioeconomic and political development. No pat answers are provided, but the nagging questions of Latin American "instability" and "underdevelopment" are examined, and the data and factors that come into play are presented and explained.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195084020
• ISBN13: 9780195084023
• Release Date: March 1994
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Very broad span

A succinct coverage of an entire region, and over a period of a century. More than just South America. The authors also survey Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. By necessity, therefore, coverage is sparse for the smaller countries. But the authors have done well, in bringing out the main historical trends, and to place these in the context of changes across the region. Like the briefly flowering Brazilian Empire, which sought to emulate the US and the European empires.If a country's description here leaves you frustrated for more details, then the authors have probably done well. Left you interested in the subject.