Format:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 397 Seiten)
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illustrations, figures, tables
ISBN:
0822374307
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9780822374305
Content:
Between 1750 and 1870 the world faced transformations marked by the rise of industrial capitalism, the fall of European empires in the Americas, and the rise of nations there. New Countries explores how these events transformed the Americas in diverging ways. Up to 1790, Saint Domingue’s sugar and slave economy drove Atlantic trades; then revolutionary slaves made Haiti, freeing themselves and ending export production. New Spain’s silver fueled global trades until Bajío insurgents collapsed silver capitalism and undermined Spanish rule after 1810. The fall of silver left regions from Mexico through Guatemala and the Andes in search of new polities and economies. After 1870 the United States became an agro-industrial hegemon, most American nations turned to commodity exports, and Haitians and diverse indigenous peoples struggled to keep independent lives beyond the reach of industrial powers seeking supplies and markets
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The Americas in the rise of industrial capitalism
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The Cádiz liberal revolution and Spanish American independence
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Union, capitalism, and slavery in the "rising empire" of the United States
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From slave colony to Black nation : Haiti's revolutionary inversion
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Cuban counterpoint : colonialism and continuity in the Atlantic world
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Atlantic transformations and Brazil's imperial independence
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Becoming Mexico : the conflictive search for a North American nation
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The republic of Guatemala : stitching together a new country
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From one patria, two nations in the Andean heartland
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Indigenous independence in Spanish South America
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Epilogue. Consolidating divergence : the Americas and the world after 1850
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780822361145
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780822361336
Additional Edition:
Print version New Countries, Capitalism, Revolutions, and Nations in the Americas, 1750-1870 Durham, N.C ISBN 9780822361145
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
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