Lawrence Clayton is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Alabama. He is the author of Bartolome de las Casas and the Conquest of the Americas and Peru and the United States: The Condor and the Eagle, among other titles. Michael L. Conniff is Professor Emeritus of History at San Jose State University, where he directed the Global Studies Initiative. His books include Africans in the Americas, Panama and the United States and Populism in Latin America, among others. Susan Gauss is Associate Professor of Latin American and Iberian Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She is the author of Made in Mexico: Regions, Nation, and the State in the Rise of Mexican Industrialism, 1920s-1940s.

• PrefaceColonial ProloguePart I: Independence and Turmoil1. Background to Independence2. The Coming of Independence to South America3. The Independence Movements: On to Victory4. The Aftermath of Independence5. The Search for Political Order: 1830s-1850sPart II: Nation-Building6. Order and Progress7. Citizen and Nation on the Road to Progress8. The Development of Nations: Mexico and Central America9. The Development of Nations: South America10. Inventing Latin America11. Changing Worlds and New EmpiresPart III: Reform and Revolution12. Early Populism in South America13. Dictators of the Caribbean Basin14. Divergent Paths to Modern Nationhood: Panama, Brazil, and Peru15. Early Revolutionaries: Mexico, Brazil, and NicaraguaPart IV: Confronting Global Challenges16. The 1930s: Years of Depression and Upheaval17. Latin America in World War II18. The Classic PopulistsPart V: Dictatorship, Development, and Democracy19. Mexico since World War II20. Colombian Conundrum21. Caribbean Basin Countercurrents22. The Cuban Revolution and its Aftermath23. The National Security States24. Democratization and Conflict in the Late Twentieth Century25. Latin America in the Twenty-First CenturyNotesBibliographyGlossaryIndex

Lawrence Clayton is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Alabama. He is the author of Bartolome de las Casas and the Conquest of the Americas and Peru and the United States: The Condor and the Eagle, among other titles. Michael L. Conniff is Professor Emeritus of History at San Jose State University, where he directed the Global Studies Initiative. His books include Africans in the Americas, Panama and the United States and Populism in Latin America, among others. Susan Gauss is Associate Professor of Latin American and Iberian Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She is the author of Made in Mexico: Regions, Nation, and the State in the Rise of Mexican Industrialism, 1920s-1940s.

• PrefaceColonial ProloguePart I: Independence and Turmoil1. Background to Independence2. The Coming of Independence to South America3. The Independence Movements: On to Victory4. The Aftermath of Independence5. The Search for Political Order: 1830s-1850sPart II: Nation-Building6. Order and Progress7. Citizen and Nation on the Road to Progress8. The Development of Nations: Mexico and Central America9. The Development of Nations: South America10. Inventing Latin America11. Changing Worlds and New EmpiresPart III: Reform and Revolution12. Early Populism in South America13. Dictators of the Caribbean Basin14. Divergent Paths to Modern Nationhood: Panama, Brazil, and Peru15. Early Revolutionaries: Mexico, Brazil, and NicaraguaPart IV: Confronting Global Challenges16. The 1930s: Years of Depression and Upheaval17. Latin America in World War II18. The Classic PopulistsPart V: Dictatorship, Development, and Democracy19. Mexico since World War II20. Colombian Conundrum21. Caribbean Basin Countercurrents22. The Cuban Revolution and its Aftermath23. The National Security States24. Democratization and Conflict in the Late Twentieth Century25. Latin America in the Twenty-First CenturyNotesBibliographyGlossaryIndex

Lawrence Clayton is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Alabama. He is the author of Bartolome de las Casas and the Conquest of the Americas and Peru and the United States: The Condor and the Eagle, among other titles. Michael L. Conniff is Professor Emeritus of History at San Jose State University, where he directed the Global Studies Initiative. His books include Africans in the Americas, Panama and the United States and Populism in Latin America, among others. Susan Gauss is Associate Professor of Latin American and Iberian Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She is the author of Made in Mexico: Regions, Nation, and the State in the Rise of Mexican Industrialism, 1920s-1940s.

• PrefaceColonial ProloguePart I: Independence and Turmoil1. Background to Independence2. The Coming of Independence to South America3. The Independence Movements: On to Victory4. The Aftermath of Independence5. The Search for Political Order: 1830s-1850sPart II: Nation-Building6. Order and Progress7. Citizen and Nation on the Road to Progress8. The Development of Nations: Mexico and Central America9. The Development of Nations: South America10. Inventing Latin America11. Changing Worlds and New EmpiresPart III: Reform and Revolution12. Early Populism in South America13. Dictators of the Caribbean Basin14. Divergent Paths to Modern Nationhood: Panama, Brazil, and Peru15. Early Revolutionaries: Mexico, Brazil, and NicaraguaPart IV: Confronting Global Challenges16. The 1930s: Years of Depression and Upheaval17. Latin America in World War II18. The Classic PopulistsPart V: Dictatorship, Development, and Democracy19. Mexico since World War II20. Colombian Conundrum21. Caribbean Basin Countercurrents22. The Cuban Revolution and its Aftermath23. The National Security States24. Democratization and Conflict in the Late Twentieth Century25. Latin America in the Twenty-First CenturyNotesBibliographyGlossaryIndex