The Epic of Latin America, Fourth EditionUniquely comprehensive and comparative, praised for its devotion to social and cultural developments as well as politics and economics, The Epic of Latin America is once again revised and brought up to date, with chapters on the great upheavals of the 1980s. The book received the Gold Medal of the Commonwealth Club of California for outstanding literary achievement by a California author and was selected by the American Library Association as one of the "fifty best books of the year." |
Contents
Greeks of the New World | 1 |
Children of the Sun | 22 |
The ToltecAztec Culture | 45 |
The New World Meets the Old Worlds Cross and Sword | 64 |
The Halls of Montezuma | 71 |
Pizarros Exploits in the Empire of the Sun | 92 |
The Conquest of Chile | 107 |
Colombia Yields to the Knight of El Dorado | 116 |
Paraguay as a Symbol of Perpetual Despotism | 558 |
The Spirit of Argentine Nationality | 565 |
THE GAUCHO | 568 |
Tyrant of the Argentine | 580 |
Civilian President | 599 |
The Paraguayan War | 604 |
Venezuela and Colombia under Caudillo Rule | 608 |
The Andean Republics | 623 |
Conquest of the River Plate | 127 |
Land of No Lure | 136 |
Iberians and Indians | 146 |
The Division of Lands and Labor | 153 |
The Empire Consolidated | 164 |
Trade Monopoly and Pirates | 177 |
Flowering of the Missions | 191 |
The Church as Inquisitor and Moral Censor | 209 |
Gold and Silver in Foreign Coffers | 216 |
The Brazilian Colossus Begins to Move Forward | 225 |
Struggle over Possession of the Behemoth | 240 |
After the Banner into the Sertão | 249 |
The Feudal Pattern of Colonial Society | 255 |
Life in the Colonial Towns | 264 |
The Beginnings of Colonial Culture | 283 |
Colonial BellesLettres | 296 |
Architecture and the Fine Arts | 308 |
Rebellion of the Beast Below | 319 |
Chile Emerges behind the Araucanian Frontier | 329 |
Cradle of a Great People | 345 |
Brazilian Plantation Life Yields to the Lure of Gold | 381 |
Abortive Rebellions in South America | 398 |
Revolt of the Classes | 414 |
Liberator of the North | 428 |
Revolution in the South | 453 |
Argentina Parts Company with Spain | 463 |
Protector of Peru | 470 |
The Two Generals Meet at Guayaquil | 480 |
The Cry from Dolores | 494 |
Men of Destiny | 508 |
Brazil Escapes the Chaos of Revolution | 515 |
The Democratic Emperor of Brazil | 531 |
A THEOCRACY | 626 |
SOCIETY OF SLAVE AND MASTER | 633 |
Democracy of the Oligarchy | 640 |
Santa Anna Loses Half of Mexico | 649 |
Indian President | 660 |
Bread or the Club | 667 |
Ariel and Caliban | 675 |
Deep Womb Dark Flower | 698 |
The Postwar Years | 721 |
GUATEMALA | 750 |
EL SALVADOR | 757 |
COSTA RICA | 760 |
NICARAGUA | 763 |
HONDURAS | 769 |
PANAMA | 772 |
CUBA | 777 |
VENEZUELA | 792 |
COLOMBIA | 799 |
ECUADOR | 806 |
PERU | 811 |
BOLIVIA | 823 |
CHILE | 831 |
ARGENTINA | 841 |
PARAGUAY AND URUGUAY | 855 |
BRAZIL | 862 |
The Contemporary Scene | 881 |
InterAmerican Relations Today | 901 |
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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY | 930 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 933 |
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