Ebook: A history of modern Latin America: 1800 to the present

Introduction to the land and its people -- Latin America in 1790 -- Competing notions of freedom -- Fragmented nationalisms -- Latin America's place in the commodity chain -- Immigration, and urban and rural life -- Revolution from countryside to city : Mexico -- The left and the socialist alternative -- Populism and the struggle for change -- Post-World War II struggles for sovereignty -- Cuba : guerrillas take power -- Progress and reaction -- Revolution and its alternatives -- The Americas in the Twenty-First Century -- A future of sustainable cooperation?