Tulio Halperin Donghi is Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. John Charles Chasteen is Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

• Preface vii Translator's Preface ix Prologue to the Thirteenth Edition xi Prologue to the First Edition xiii I. The Colonial Heritage 1 II. The Crisis of Independence (1810-1825) 42 III. The Early National Period (1825-1850) 74 IV. Emergence of the Neocolonial Order (1850-1880) 115 V. Maturity of the Neocolonial Order (1880-1930) 158 VI. Progress in a Stormy World (1930-1945) 208 VII. New Directions in the Postwar Period (1945-1960) 247 VIII. A Decade of Decisions (1960-1970) 292 IX. Latin America in Our Time 338 Epilogue 401 Bibliographical Essay 407 Index 421

"If Halperin's book owes its interpretive power and revisionist insights to the perspective and ideas of the economists concerned with the roots of Latin American underdevelopment, it tempers these insights with a historian's broad view of historical change, a wide familiarity with primary documents, and an unrivaled command over available secondary sources."-Charles Berquist, University of Washington, Seattle "The translation of this classic work is long overdue. Halperin's remarkably skillful at interweaving threads of social, political, and economic history into a coherent whole in a way very few historians can."-Deborah Jakubs, Council on Latin American Studies