After 1750 the Americas lived political and popular revolutions, the fall of European empires, and the rise of nations as the world faced a new industrial capitalism. Political revolution made the United States the first new nation; revolutionary slaves made Haiti the second, freeing themselves and destroying the leading Atlantic export economy. A decade later, Bajío insurgents took down the silver economy that fueled global trade and sustained Spain’s empire while Britain triumphed at war and pioneered industrial ways that led the U.S. South, still-Spanish Cuba, and a Brazilian empire to expand slavery to supply rising industrial centers. Meanwhile, the fall of silver left people from Mexico through the Andes searching for new states and economies. After 1870 the United States became an agro-industrial hegemon, and most American nations turned to commodity exports, while Haitians and diverse indigenous peoples struggled to retain independent ways. Contributors. Alfredo Ávila, Roberto Breña, Sarah C. Chambers, Jordana Dym, Carolyn Fick, Erick Langer, Adam Rothman, David Sartorius, Kirsten Schultz, John Tutino
Author(s): John Tutino
Publisher: Duke University Press
Year: 2016
Language: English
Pages: 408
Tags: Industrial Revolution: Europe, Industrialization: Latin America: History, Industrialization: United States: History, Latin America: History: Autonomy And Independence Movements, Latin America: Foreign Economic Relations
Cover
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction: Revolutions, Nations, and a New Industrial World
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Part I. Hemispheric Challenges
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1. The Americas in the Rise of Industrial Capitalism
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2. The Cádiz Liberal Revolution and Spanish American Independence
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Part II. Atlantic Transformations
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3. Union, Capitalism, and Slavery in the “Rising Empire” of the United States
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4. From Slave Colony to Black Nation: Haiti’s Revolutionary Inversion
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5. Cuban Counterpoint: Colonialism and Continuity in the Atlantic World
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6. Atlantic Transformations and Brazil’s Imperial Independence
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Part III. Spanish American Inversions
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7. Becoming Mexico: The Conflictive Search for a North American Nation
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8. The Republic of Guatemala: Stitching Together a New Country......Page 289
9. From One Patria, Two Nations in the Andean Heartland
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10. Indigenous Independence in Spanish South America
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Epilogue. Consolidating Divergence: The Americas and the World after 1850
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Contributors
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