Latin America and the origins of its twenty-first century / Michael Monteón.

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Acknowledgments -- Introduction : the structure of an interpretation -- 1. The long nineteenth century, Caudillaje, power, and the people -- City and countryside -- Labor : Indian, slave, and free -- The origins of national governments -- Pax Britannica -- 2. Oligarchy and the impact of new wealth, 1880-1914 -- The newest city -- Boulevards and streetcars -- The working class -- Buenos Aires -- Peasants and landed power -- The challenges to oligarchy -- Imperial shift -- 3. Revolutions and modernization, 1910-1955 -- A different direction -- Chilangolandia -- The Mexican revolution -- Populism and the oligarchies -- Peronismo -- Populist frustrations -- The United States as a hegemonic power -- The anticommunist crusade -- Two revolutionary movements : Bolivia and Guatemala -- 4. Modern life and modern conflicts, 1956-1985 -- Santiago and the Pinochet dictatorship -- The population explosion -- Causes and consequences of the population boom -- The misinterpretations of urban poverty -- Arts and communication -- The Cold War and guerrilla dreams -- The Cuban revolution -- The Brazilian model -- Guerrilla warfare -- The dilemmas of development -- 5. Launched into the present -- São Paulo, the newest city -- The collapse of military capitalism -- The shock treatment -- The end of the guerrilla left Mexico revisited -- The Latin-Americanization of the United States -- Blowback -- Migration -- Conclusion : the twenty-first century has begun -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.