Readings on Latin America and Its People, Volume 2 (Since 1800)

Topical Table of Contents v

Preface viii

1 Mexican Independence 1
Why Did People Rebel? 2
The War of Hate 6
The Resolution for Independence 11
2 The Practice of Politics: Popular Participation
in the Nineteenth Century 15
Popular Class Participation 16
Motivations for the Popular Classes 17
Upper Class View of the Poor 18
3 War 24
Wars of Independence 25
The Horror of Battle 27
Women and War 36
Central America 38
4 Everyday Life in the Nineteenth Century Countryside 42
Commercial Agriculture 42
Subsistence Agriculture 45
Everyday Life 46
Mining 59
5 Slaves 61
The Slave’s Life 62
A More Benign Slavery? 68
A Miner’s Life 70
Slaves on their Own 73
The Slave Market 74
Corporal Punishment 75
6 Cities in the Nineteenth Century 77
Contrasts 77
Rio de Janeiro 79
Bahia, Brazil 82
Buenos Aires 84
Secondary Cities 87
The Wealthy Class 92
Religion 96
Corpus Christi 99
Carnavão or the Intrudo 101
Funerals 102
7 The Military 105
The Military Credo 106
The Military Condition 107
The End Result 114
8 Everyday Life in the Twentieth Century Countryside 121
The Old Ways: Subsistence Agriculture 122
The New Ways: Export Agriculture 123
Land Reform in the Post-Modern Region 129
There Are No Utopias 137
Agriculture and Ecology 140
Where Does the Country End and the City Begin? 145
9 Latin American Cities in the Twentieth Century 149
The Scene 150
Immigrants’ View of the City 151
Mexico City 155
Daily Life 158
10 The Mexican Revolution 162
Why Did Mexicans Rebel? 163
Why Did They Continue to Fight? 172
11 The Time of Terror 177
The Dictatorships 177
The Civil Wars 185
Liberation Theology 197
12 The New Latin America 199
Guerrilla Wars without Resolution 200
The Zapatistas 201
The “Pink Tide” 203
The Great Migrations 206
Popular Participation 208
Inflation 211