A History of Chile, 1808-2002

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Cambridge University Press, Oct 18, 2004 - Business & Economics - 454 pages
A History of Chile chronicles the nation's political, social, and economic evolution from its independence until the early years of the Lagos regime. Employing primary and secondary materials, it explores the growth of Chile's agricultural economy, during which the large landed estates appeared; the nineteenth-century wheat and mining booms; the rise of the nitrate mines; their replacement by copper mining; and the diversification of the nation's economic base. This volume also traces Chile's political development from oligarchy to democracy, culminating in the election of Salvador Allende, his overthrow by a military dictatorship, and the return of popularly elected governments. Additionally, the volume examines Chile's social and intellectual history: the process of urbanization, the spread of education and public health, the diminution of poverty, the creation of a rich intellectual and literary tradition, the experiences of middle and lower classes and the development of Chile's unique culture.
 

Contents

PARTI Birth of a nationstate 1800s1830s
1
The Diplomacy of AngloAmerican Conflict
3
Historical Background and Contemporary Problems
8
A Brading Mines and Merchants in Bourbon Mexico 17631810
22
Independence 180830
30
The Mexican People between Church and State 19261929
32
Race Color and National Independence in Haiti
34
Jonathan C Brown A Socioeconomic History of Argentina 17761860
36
Native Historical Interpretation in the Colombian Andes
70
The rise of a republic 1830s1880s
71
Charles Guy Gillespie Negotiating Democracy Politicians and Generals in Uruguay
72
5
98
The Liberal impulse 184176
104
Crisis and war 187683
127
The nitrate era 1880s1930s
147
The Lion and the mule 192038
203

Britain Spain and the Abolition of the Cuban Slave Trade
37
A Brading Caudillo and Peasant in the Mexican Revolution
38
Nationalist Movements and State Companies
40
Indian Peru 15201620
44
A Case Study of the State as Entrepreneur
45
A History of Colonial Spanish America and Brazil
46
Adolfo Figueroa Capitalist Development and the Peasant Economy in Peru
47
Regional Development in the Central Highlands of Peru
48
The Case of the Automobile Industry
49
Policy and Practice in Three Latin American Cities
50
The conservative settlement 183041
53
A Case Study in Cuban Labor History 18601958
54
CounterRevolution and Reconstruction
55
Politics Economy and Society 17771811
58
Mexican Regions 17501824
61
Elite Culture and Society in Turnofthe Century Rio de Janeiro
62
Victor BulmerThomas The Political Economy of Central America since 1920
65
Jonathan Hartlyn The Politics of Coalition Rule in Colombia
66
Charles H Wood and José Alberto Magno de Carvalho The Demography of Inequality in Brazil
67
The Domestic World of Servants and Masters in NineteenthCentury Rio de Janeiro
68
Juazeiro and Petrolina in Transition
69
Industrial advance and the dawn of mass politics
235
The industrial impulse 1930s1960s
264
I
288
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The Chilean road to socialism 197073
330
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The Pinochet years
359
Reencounter with history 19902002
390
46
409
Glossary of Spanish terms
415
Further reading
423
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Index
437
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