Latin America since independence : a history with primary sources / Alexander Dawson.

List of illustrations, ix -- Acknowledgments, xiii -- List of abbreviations, xv -- Introduction: Latin America's useable past, 1 -- 1. Independence narratives, past and present, 11 -- Documents -- 1.1. Simón Bolivar, the Letter from Jamaica: Kingston, Jamaica, September 6, 1815, 22 -- 1.2. Jose Marti, "Our America," from la Revista Ilustrada, New York, January 1, 1891, 24 -- 1.3. Speech by President Hugo Chavez at the opening of XII G-15 summit, Monday, march 1, 2004, 30 -- At a glance: political divisions, 38 -- 2. Caudillos versus the nation state, 45 -- At a glance: political divisions, 38 -- 2. Caudillos versus the nation state, 45 -- Document -- 2.1. Esteban Echeverria, the Slaughterhouse (El Matadero), 59 -- 3. Citizenship and rights in the New Republics, 73 -- Documents -- 3.1. Raimundo (Raymundo) Nina Rodrigues, The Fetishist Animism of the Bahian Blacks (0 animismo fetischistados negros bahianos)(excerpt), 91 -- 3.2. Political Program of the Partido Independiente de Color, 1908, 94 -- 3.3. Manifiesto, "Santa Rita de Casia," y "San Lázaro": Sociedad de Protección Mutua, Canto y Baile, 95 -- 3.4. Maria Eugenia Echenique, Brushstrokes, May 7, 1876, 97 -- 3.5. Judith [Josefina Pelliza de Sagasta], "women: dedicated to miss Maria Eugenia Echenique," June 4, 1876, 99 -- At a glance: people, 103 -- 4. The export boom as modernity, 113 -- Documents -- 4.1. James Creelman, "Porfirio Díaz, Hero of the Americas" (Excerpts), 129 -- 5. Sings of crisis in a gilded age, 141 -- 5.1. Ruben Dario, to Roosevelt, 1904, 153 -- 5.2. Emiliano Zapata, The Plan de Ayala, 1911, 154 -- 5.3. José Vasconcelos, Excerpt from La raza cósmica (1925), 158 -- 5.4. José Carlos Mariátequi, "The Problem of the Indian," from seven interpretive essays on peruvian reality, 1928, 166 -- At a glance: economy, 173 -- 6. Commerce, coercion and America's empire, 181 -- Documents -- 6.1. Augusto Sandino, political manifesto, Nicaragua, July 1927, 198 -- 6.2. Silent War (Film), 200 -- 6.3. Journey to banana land (Film), 201 -- 6.4. Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart, "From the noble savage to the third world" 1970, 201 -- 7. Power to the people, 207 -- Documents -- 7.1 Foster Hailey, "Peronists Will Head Argentine Ticket," New York Times, August 23, 1951 -- 7.2. The Peronist version of the speech, 229 -- 7.3. The renunciamiento as compiled from newsreel and archival footage, 231 -- 7.4. Eva Peron's final response broadcast over the airwaves At 8.30 p.m. on August 31, 1951, 235 -- At a glance: urbanization, 237 -- 8. A decade of revolution in Cuba, 243 -- Documents -- 8.1. Letter from Major Ernesto Che Guevara to Carlos Quijano, editor of the Montevideo Weekly Magazine Marcha, March 1965, 259 -- 8.2. Senel Paz, "el lobo, el bosque, y el hombre nuevo" (excerpt), 272 -- 8.3. Yoani Sánchez" architecture of the emergency," october 11, 2009, 278 -- 8.4. Yoani Sánchez, "The blackout ends," february 9, 2011, 279 -- 8.5. Yoani Sánchez, "In 2013: Reasons to stay," january 1, 2013, 279 -- 9. The terror, 283 -- Documents -- 9.1. Mario Vargas Llosa, "The Massacre," excerpt from "Inquest in the Andes: A Latin American writer explores the political lessons of a Peruvian Massacre," New York Times Magazine, July 31, 1983, 303 -- 9.2. The Interview of the Century, 1988 (excerpt), 306 -- 9.3. Fujimori's 1992 declaration of the autogolpe, 310 -- 9.4. A day in the trial of the century, by Carolina Huamán, Oyague (Family member of La Cantuta victim), 315 -- At a glance: environment, 318 -- 10. Speaking truth to power, 323 -- Documents -- 10.1. Where are our children? madres de la plaza de mayo, 345 -- 10.2. Revolutionary women's law, El Despertador Mexicano, january 1, 1994), 345 -- 10.3 Video of Aguas Blancas massacre, 346 -- 10.4. "No", 346 -- 10.5. "la alegria ya viene", 346 -- 10.6. Zombies for education, 346 -- 10.7 The Diario de Juárez open letter to the drug cartels. September 19, 2010, 346 -- 10.8. Javier Sicilia's open letter to Mexico's politicians and criminals, april 3, 2011, 351 -- At a glance: technology, 355 -- 11. Towards an uncertain future, 359 -- Documents -- 11. Towards an uncertain future, 359 -- Documents -- 11.1. Summary of judgment & order of Superior Court of Nueva Loja, Aguinda V. Chevron Texaco, No. 2003-0002, February 14, 2011, 378 -- 11.2 United States District Court, Southern District of New York Chevron Corporation, plaintiff, against Steven Donziger et al., defendants. Opinion, Lewis A. Kaplan, District Judge, 386 -- Epilogue, 395 -- Glossary, 397 -- Notes, 401 -- Index, 411.

This second edition brings the story up to the present, with revised chapters, new primary documents and images, and a new 'At A Glance' feature that uses a selection of maps and tables to illuminate key issues like the economy, the environment, and demographics.