History of Latin America. From Beginnings to the Present
by Hurbert Herring
- New York A. Knopf 1955
- 796 p. Index xxvi
Includes Index
1. This land, this people. -- 2. The Indian background. -- 3. The Iberian background. -- 4. The African background. -- 5. Discovery and conquest. -- 6. Introducing the Spanish colonial period. -- 7. Spain's government in America: kings, viceroys, and other important people. -- 8. The church in Spanish America. -- 9. Man, his land, and his labor in Spanish America. -- 10. The getting and the spending: the economic life of Spanish America. -- 11. The formation of Spanish American culture. -- 12. The Portuguese empire in Brazil.
13. The tumult of revolution. -- 14. Mexico's war for independence. -- 15. The independence of Spanish South America. -- 16. The independence of Brazil. -- 17. From war to peace. -- 18. Introducing Mexico. -- 19. The era of Santa Anna, 1821-55. -- 20. The era of Benito Juárez, 1855-76. -- 21. The era of Porfirio Diáz, 1876-1910. -- 22. Revolution, 1910-20. -- 23. Reconstruction: The era of Obregón, Calles, and Cárdenas, 1920-40. -- 24. Mexico turns to the right, 1940-. -- 25. Cuba. -- 26. Haiti. -- 27. The Dominican Republic. -- 28. Central America and Panama. -- 29. Venezuela. -- 30. Columbia. -- 31. Ecuador. -- 32. Peru. -- 33. Bolivia. -- 34. Chile: the formative years, 1810-91. -- 35. Chile's evolution since 1891. -- 36. Argentina: land and people.
37. -- Argentina: the years of tumult, 1810-29. -- 38. Argentina: the tyranny of Juan Manuel de Rosas, 1829-52. -- 39. Creation of the Argentine nation, 1852-90. -- 40. Argentina: the radicals, 1890-1930. -- 41. Argentina: the old regime returns, 1930-43. -- 42. Argentina: the era of Juan Domingo Perón, 1943-55. -- 43. Argentina after Perón, 1955-. -- 44. Uruguay. -- 45. Paraguay. -- 46. Brazil: land and people. -- 47. The empire of Brazil: Pedro I, 1822-31. -- 48. The empire: the regency and Pedro II, 1831-41. -- 49. The empire: Pedro II, 1841-89. -- 50. The first republic, 1889-1930. -- 51. The era of Getulio Vargas, 1930-45. -- 52. The second republic, 1945-. -- 53. Latin America and the United States, 1810-95. -- 54. Latin America and the United States, 1895-1946. -- 55. Latin America and the United States, 1946-