Americanos: Latin America's Struggle for Independence

Americanos: Latin America's Struggle for Independence

by John Charles Chasteen
ISBN-10:
0195178815
ISBN-13:
9780195178814
Pub. Date:
01/28/2008
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
ISBN-10:
0195178815
ISBN-13:
9780195178814
Pub. Date:
01/28/2008
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Americanos: Latin America's Struggle for Independence

Americanos: Latin America's Struggle for Independence

by John Charles Chasteen
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Overview

A premier volume in Oxford's Pivotal Moments in World History series, Americanos offers an engagingly written, compact history of the Latin American wars of independence. Proceeding almost cinematically, scene by vivid scene, John Charles Chasteen introduces the reader to lead players, basic concepts, key events, and dominant trends, braided together in a single, taut narrative. He vividly depicts the individuals and events of those tumultuous years, capturing the gathering forces for independence, the clashes of troops and decisions of leaders, and the rich, elaborate tapestry of Latin American societies as they embraced nationhood.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780195178814
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 01/28/2008
Series: Pivotal Moments in World History
Pages: 240
Product dimensions: 9.54(w) x 6.55(h) x 0.89(d)

About the Author

John Charles Chasteen is Patterson Distinguished Term Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Both a writer and a translator, his books include Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America.

Table of Contents

PrefaceDiscovering América, 1799-1805Pillars of the Crown, 1806-1810Not-so-Civil Wars, 1810-1812A Lost Cause?, 1812-1815Independence Won, 1816-1824Nation-Building Begins, 1824-1850
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