A New History of Modern Latin America provides an engaging and readable narrative history of the nations of Latin America from the Wars of Independence in the nineteenth century to the democratic turn in the twenty-first. This new edition of a well-known text has been revised and updated to include the most recent interpretations of major themes in the economic, social, and cultural history of the region to show the unity of the Latin America experience while exploring the diversity of the region’s geography, peoples, and cultures. It also presents substantial new material on women, gender, and race in the region.  Each chapter begins with primary documents, offering glimpses into moments in history and setting the scene for the chapter, and concludes with timelines and key words to reinforce content. Discussion questions are included to help students with research assignments and papers.

Both professors and students will find its narrative, chronological approach a useful guide to the history of this important area of the world.

A New History of Modern Latin America provides an engaging and readable narrative history of the nations of Latin America from the Wars of Independence in the nineteenth century to the democratic turn in the twenty-first. This new edition of a well-known text has been revised and updated to include the most recent interpretations of major themes in the economic, social, and cultural history of the region to show the unity of the Latin America experience while exploring the diversity of the region’s geography, peoples, and cultures. It also presents substantial new material on women, gender, and race in the region.  Each chapter begins with primary documents, offering glimpses into moments in history and setting the scene for the chapter, and concludes with timelines and key words to reinforce content. Discussion questions are included to help students with research assignments and papers.

Both professors and students will find its narrative, chronological approach a useful guide to the history of this important area of the world.

Preface
Colonial Prologue

Part I: Independence and Turmoil

1. Background to Independence
2. The Coming of Independence to South America
3. The Independence Movements: On to Victory
4. The Aftermath of Independence
5. The Search for Political Order: 1830s-1850s

Part II: Nation-Building

6. Order and Progress
7. Citizen and Nation on the Road to Progress
8. The Development of Nations: Mexico and Central America
9. The Development of Nations: South America
10. Inventing Latin America
11. Changing Worlds and New Empires

Part III: Reform and Revolution

12. Early Populism in South America
13. Dictators of the Caribbean Basin
14. Divergent Paths to Modern Nationhood: Panama, Brazil, and Peru
15. Early Revolutionaries: Mexico, Brazil, and Nicaragua

Part IV: Confronting Global Challenges

16. The 1930s: Years of Depression and Upheaval
17. Latin America in World War II
18. The Classic Populists

Part V: Dictatorship, Development, and Democracy

19. Mexico since World War II
20. Colombian Conundrum
21. Caribbean Basin Countercurrents
22. The Cuban Revolution and its Aftermath
23. The National Security States
24. Democratization and Conflict in the Late Twentieth Century
25. Latin America in the Twenty-First Century

Notes
Bibliography
Glossary
Index