Format:
Online-Ressource (654 p)
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Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9780822395836
Series Statement:
The Latin America readers
Content:
〈DIV〉Perfect for the student or traveler, 〈I〉The Chile Reader〈/I〉 covers more than 500 years of Chilean history, with an emphasis on the past half-century. Its many selections include interviews, travel diaries, diplomatic cables, cartoons, and photographs.〈/div〉
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I. Environment and History; "No Better Land," Pedro de Valdivia; The Poetry of Place: "My Country," Gabriela Mistral; Crazy Geography, Benjamín Subercaseaux; Catastrophe and National Character, Rolando Mellafe; Deforestation in Chile: An Early Report, Claudio Gay; "Catastrophe in Sewell," Pablo Neruda; A Call to Conservation, Rafael Elizalde Mac-Clure; In Defense of the Forests, Ricardo Carrere; Pollution and Politics in Greater Santiago, Saar Van Hauwermeiren; II. Chile before Chile: Indigenous Peoples, Conquest, and Colonial Society
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A Paleolithic FootprintChinchorro: The World's Oldest Mummies; Diaguita Ceramics; Mapuche Textiles: Culture and Commerce; The Inca Meet the Mapuche, Garcilaso de la Vega; A Conquistador Pleads His Case to the King, Pedro de Valdivia; Exalting the Noble Savage, Alonso de Ercilla; Debating Indian Slavery, Melchor Calderón and Diego de Rosales; "To Sell, Give, Donate, Trade, or Exchange": Certification of Indian Enslavement; Portrait of Late Colonial Santiago, Vicente Carvallo y Goyeneche; From War to Diplomacy: The Summit of Tapihue; "The Insolence of Peons," Mine Owners of Copiapó
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III. The Honorable Exception: The New Chilean Nation in the Nineteenth CenturyA Revolutionary Journalist: "Fundamental Notions of the Rights of Peoples," Camilo Henríquez; An Englishwoman Observes the New Nation, Maria Graham; The Authoritarian Republic, Diego Portales; A Political Catechism, Francisco Bilbao; A Literature of Its Own: Martín Rivas, Alberto Blest Gana; The University and the Nation, Andrés Bello; A Polish Scientist among the Mapuche, Ignacio Domeyko; German Immigrants in the South, Vicente Pérez Rosales; The Beagle Diary: "A Peculiar Race of Men" Charles Darwin
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How to Run an Hacienda, Manuel José BalmacedaA Franco-Chilean in the California Gold Rush, Pedro Isidoro Combet; "The Worst Misery": Letters to the Santiago Orphanage; "A Race of Vagabonds," Augusto Orrego Luco; IV. Building a Modern Nation: Politics and the Social Question in the Nitrate Era; Audacious and Cruel Spoilations": The War of the Pacific, Alejandro Fierro; A Mapuche Chieftain Remembers "Pacification," Pascual Coña; Chile and Its "Others"; Race, Nation, and the "Roto Chileno," Nicolás Palacios
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Nitrates, Nationalism, and the End of the Autocratic Republic, José Manuel Balmaceda, Arturo Alessandri, and a popular poetA Manifesto to the Chilean People, Democratic Party; "God Distributes His Gifts Unequally": An Archbishop Defends Social Inequality, Mariano Casanova; Workers' Movements and the Birth of the Chilean Left, Luis Emilio Recabarren; Nitrate Workers and State Violence: The Massacre at Escuela Santa Maríade Iquique, Elías Lafertte; Women, Work, and Labor Politics, Esther Valdés de Díaz; The Lion of Tarapacá, Arturo Alessandri
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Autocrats versus Aristocrats: The Decay of Chile's Parliamentary Republic, Alberto Edwards
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Industrialization and Chile's Arab immigrants
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No better land in the whole wide world
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"I told myself I must find work, I cannot continue here"
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Fundamental theoretical principles of the Socialist Party
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Chile's public health crisis
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The Popular Front
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Rural workers, landowners, and the politics of compromise
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Chile's "frustrated development"
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The Movement for the Emancipation of Chilean Women (MEMCH)
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Autobiography and poems
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Miners' strikes and the demise of the Popular Front
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"Our constitution and our laws contain iniquitous precepts"
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Rural-urban migration and the founding of a Santiago shantytown
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Klein-Sacks : Chile's first experiment with neo-liberalism (image) ; Between capitalism and communism
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Property and production
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The Christian left
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The new song movement
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Lyrics of the new song movement
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Gallery : The election of 1970 ; The United States and the election of Salvador Allende
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A Mapuche land takeover
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"We take the factory"
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"Informing the people"
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"Women's power" against Allende
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"So that Chile can renew its march forward"
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"The Demands of the people"
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A treasonous history
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United States policy and covert action against Allende
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"Everyone knows what is going to happen"
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"These are my final words"
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The military takes Santiago
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The new military regime justifies intervention
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Pinochet's caravan of death
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Women and torture
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Transnationalization of terror : Operation Condor
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The 1980 Constitution
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Shantytown protest
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The Chilean Women 's Movement
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The kids of Barrio Alto
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Sexuality and soccer
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Dictatorship as revolution
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The whole world was watching
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Chile's "crazy geography"
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Catastrophe and national character
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Deforestation in Chile : an early report
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"Catastrophe in Sewell"
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A call to conservationism in Chile
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In defense of the forests
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Pollution and politics in greater Santiago
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The Inca meet the Mapuche
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A conquistador pleads his case
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Exalting the noble savage
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Debating Indian slavery
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"To sell, give, donate, trade, or exchange"
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Portrait of late Colonial Santiago
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From war to diplomacy
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"The Insolence of peons"
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A revolutionary journalist
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An Englishwoman observes the new nation
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The authoritarian republic
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A political catechism
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A literature of its own
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The university and the nation
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A Polish scientist among the Mapuche
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German immigrants in the South
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"A peculiar race of men" : gold, copper, and sweat
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How to run an hacienda
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A Franco-Chilean in the Gold Rush
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The worst misery ; Letters to the Santiago orphanage ; A race of vagabonds ; Augusto Orrego Luco, the social question ; Race, nation, and the "roto chileno"
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The war of the Pacific, 1879-1893
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The pacification of the Araucanía
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Gallery : Chile and its "others" ; Balmaceda and the civil war of 1891, José Manuel Balmaceda and Arturo Alessandri ; The politics of reform, the manifesto of the Democratic party to the Chilean people, 1888 ; The Catholic Church and the social question
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Workers' movements and the birth of the Chilean left
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Nitrate workers and state violence : the massacre at Escuela Santa María de Iquique
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Women, work, and labor politics
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The Lion of Tarapacá
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The decay of Chile's parliamentary republic
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Military intervention and the end of the parliamentary republic
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Poetic creationism
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"Mother of Chile" and poet of Chilenidad
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780822395836
Additional Edition:
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Chile Reader History, Culture, Politics
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
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https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822395836
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