Latin America Since Independence

Second Edition

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Introduction

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    Chapter 1 - Independence Narratives, Past and Present

    Weblinks

    Alexander Von Humboldt: Problems and Progress in Mexico, c. 1800 http://www.fordham.edu/

    Link to Alexander Von Humboldt Digital Library http://avhumboldt.net/

    Biblioteca Virtual de Simón Bolivar (Writings in Spanish and English) http://www.reocities.com/Athens/Biblioteca

    Address at the Congress de Angustura http://www.reocities.com/Athens/ (Spanish version) http://www.fordham.edu (English version)

    Bolivar's Manifiesto de Cartagena http://www.monografias.com/ (in Spanish)

    Plan de Iguala http://www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/iguala.htm

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      Chapter 2 - Caudillos versus the Nation State

      Weblinks

      The Treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo, 2 Feb 1848 http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/

      El Gaucho Martín Fierro by José Hernández http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/14765 (in Spanish)

      Excerpts from Martín Fierro, 1872, 1879 http://faculty.chass.ncsu.edu/

      Establishing Borders: The Expansion of the United States, 1846–48 http://smithsonianeducation.org/educators/

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        Chapter 3 - Race and Citizenship in the New Republics

        Weblinks

        Pope Leo XIII: Encyclical In Plurimus (On the Abolition of Slavery in Brazil), 1888. http://www.vatican.va/

        Pierre Denis: The Coffee Fazenda of Brazil, excerpts. 1911 http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/

        UNESCO website on the history of Slavery http://portal.unesco.org/culture/

        History of Slavery http://www.casahistoria.net/slavery.htm

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          Chapter 4 - The Export Boom as Modernity

          Weblinks

          Relics & Selves: Iconographies of the National in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, 1880–1890 (photos) http://www.bbk.ac.uk/ibamuseum/

          Creelman interview in Spanish www.bibliotecas.tv/zapata/bibliografia

          Emiliano Zapata, documents online www.bibliotecas.tv/zapata/ (in Spanish)

          Francisco Madero: The Plan of San Luis Potosi, November 20, 1910 http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ See also http://faculty.chass.ncsu.edu/

          Andres Molina Enriques: Los grandes problemas nacionales http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/ (in Spanish)

          Images of the Paseo de la Reforma, 1860s–2004 (photos) http://www.mexicomaxico.org/

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            Chapter 5 - Signs of Crisis in a Gilded Age

            Weblinks

            La Construccion Social de America Latina: Fragmentos de un imaginaria regional, 1850–1920 (photos) http://www.catedras.fsoc.

             The Mexican Revolution http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/

            Postcards of the Mexican Revolution http://www.netdotcom.com/

            Excerpt from Barbarous Mexico (John Kenneth Turner) http://historicaltextarchive.com/

            Fotografias y grabados de Emiliano Zapata http://members.tripod.com/

            The Mexican Revolution: Conflict in Matamoros http://runyon.lib.utexas.edu/

            Mexico: Constitución de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos, 31 de enero de 1917 http://www.solon.org/Constitutions/

            José Enrique Rodó, Ariel www.gutenberg.org/etext/ (in Spanish)

            Mariategui Internet archive www.marxists.org/archive/

            Chapter 6 - Commerce, Coercion, and America's Empire

            Weblinks

            Spanish–American War www.spanamwar.com/

            The World of 1898: The Spanish–American War (Library of Congress) http://www.loc.gov/rr/

            Convention Between the US and Panama (Panama Canal), 1903 (By which the US acquired Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Phillipines) http://www.fordham.edu/

            Treaty of Peace Between the United States and Spain, 1898 (By which the US acquired Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Phillipines) http://avalon.law.yale.edu/

            The Platt Amendment, 1901 http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/

            US Intervention in Nicaragua, 1912 (photos) http://www.latinamericanstudies.org

            Richard Slatta: Documents of US Policy in Latin America http://faculty.chass.ncsu.edu/

            The United States and Latin America http://www.casahistoria.net/uslatam.htm

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            Silent War:

            Chapter 7 - Power to the People

            Weblinks

            Eva Duarte de Perón (History of Peronism, excerpts, 1951) http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1951evaperon.html

            Juan Domingo Perón: Justicialism http://www.fordham.edu/

            Evita Perón Historical Research Foundation http://www.evitaperon.org/

            Casa Historia on Juan and Eva Peron http://www.casahistoria.net

            Tango www.todotango.com

            Juan Domingo Perón: Justicialism, 1948/1950 http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1950peronism2.html

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                    Chapter 8 - A Decade of Revolution in Cuba

                    Weblinks

                    Fidel Castro: Second Declaration of Havana, 1962 http://www.fordham.edu/

                    Che Guevara Internet Archive http://www.marxists.org/guevara

                    Fidel Castro Internet Archive http://www.marxists.org/cuba

                    Fidel Castro "History Will Absolve Me,", 1953 http://www.marxists.org/cuba/1953

                    Cuban History Archive http://www.marxists.org/cubanhistory

                    Castro Speech Database (LANIC) http://lanic.utexas.edu/

                    Cuban Poster Art http://www.docspopuli.org/

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                        Chapter 9 - The Terror

                        Weblinks

                        Salvador Allende Archive http://www.marxists.org/archive/

                        President John F. Kennedy: On the Alliance for Progress, 1961 http://www.fordham.edu/

                        Inter-American Committee: Problems of Latin American Economies, 1965 http://www.fordham.edu/

                        The Vanished Gallery http://www.yendor.com/vanished/

                        Covert Action in Chile, 1963–1973. Staff Report of the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, United States Senate, 94th Congress, 1st Session http://www.fas.org/

                        Peru Truth and Reconciliation Commission http://www.cverdad.org.pe/

                        Fujimori on Trial http://fujimoriontrial.org/

                        Web page centered on the MRTA www.cedema.org/ (in Spanish)

                        Rettig Commission http://www.usip.org/

                        Argentina National Commission on the Disappeared http://www.usip.org/

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                                  Chapter 10 - Speaking Truth to Power

                                  Weblinks

                                  Rigoberta Menchú Tum: Interview: Five Hundred Years of Sacrifice Before Alien Gods, 1992 http://www.indians.org/welker/menchu2.htm

                                  Peasant Social Worlds and Their Transformation, University of Manchester (UK) http://era.anthropology.ac.uk/Era_Resources/Era/Peasants/

                                  The Mapuche Nation http://www.mapuche-nation.org/

                                  Liberation Theology: A Chronology http://home.comcast.net/~chtongyu/liberation/chronology.html

                                  Madres de la Plaza de Mayo http://www.yendor.com/vanished/madres.html

                                  Los Pueblos Indígenas de Mexico www.cdi.gob.mx

                                  CONAIE English: www.conaie.nativeweb.org/

                                  CONAIE Spanish: www.conaie.org.

                                  EZLN (Spanish) http://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/

                                  EZLN (English) http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/mexico.html

                                  EZLN Communiques (in English) http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/mexico/ezlnco.html

                                  MST http://www.mstbrazil.org/

                                  Amnesty International www.amnesty.org/

                                  Human Rights Watch www.hrw.org/

                                  Derechos Humanos en America Latina, Eqiupo Nizkor http://www.derechos.org/nizkor/eng.html

                                  Human Rights in Latin America, LANIC http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/hrights/

                                  Instituto Interamericano de Derechos Humanos http://www.iidh.ed.cr/

                                  Servicio Paz y Justicia (SERPAJ), Uruguay http://www.serpaj.org.uy/serpajph/

                                  Abuelas de la Plaza de Mayo, Argentina Spanish: http://www.abuelas.org.ar/

                                  Abuelas de la Plaza de Mayo, Argentina English: http://www.abuelas.org.ar/english/history.htm

                                  H.I.J.O.S., Argentina http://www.hijos-capital.org.ar/

                                  The MIR (Chile), Spanish http://www.mir-chile.cl/

                                  Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) http://www.wola.org/

                                  History of International Migration http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/history/migration/

                                  Migration Information Source http://www.migrationinformation.org/usfocus/display.cfm?ID=208

                                  Border History http://www.pbs.org/kpbs/theborder/history/index.html

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                                          (WARNING: Video 10.3 is a disturbing video, in which we see the deaths of 17 peasants at the hands of the police)

                                                Chapter 11 - Towards an Uncertain Future

                                                Weblinks

                                                Mining Watch http://www.miningwatch.ca/

                                                McGill Research Group Investigating Canadian Mining in Latin America http://micla.ca/

                                                Latin America: Mining in Conflict, an Interactive Map http://pulitzercenter.org/reporting/

                                                Chevron's version of the Ecuador Lawsuit http://www.chevron.com/

                                                The Plaintiffs in the Chevron Case in Ecuador http://chevrontoxico.com/

                                                Web page dedicated to the history of oil in Mexico www.colmex.mx/ceh/petroleo (in Spanish)

                                                Pro-government Venezuelan site http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/

                                                Bolivia Blogs http://blogsbolivia.blogspot.com/

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