Latin American Nationalism: Identity in a Globalizing World

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With ethnic and class-based national movements taking center stage in countries like Bolivia and Venezuela, nationalism has proven to be one of the most durable and important movements in Latin America. In understanding the history of these nationalisms, we can understand how Latin America relates to the rest of the world. As Latin America inserts itself into a rapidly globalizing world, understanding the changing nature of national identify and nationalism is key. By tracing the important historical origins of present-day Latin American nationalism, this book gives readers a thorough introduction to the subject. Only by understanding how nationalism came to be such an important social and political force, can we understand its significance today. In turn, understanding Latin American nationalism helps us understand how Latin America shapes, and is shaped by, a rapidly globalizing world. Cover Contents List of Figures List of Tables List of Maps Series Editor’s Preface Acknowledgments Note on Usage List of Abbreviations PART ONE Beginnings 1 Introduction 2 The Wars for Independence against Spain and the Rise of Nationalism PART TWO Different National Paths—Brazil, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central America 3 Two Special Cases: Brazil and Mexico 4 Fragmented Nationalisms: The Special Cases of Central America and the Caribbean PART THREE Consolidation of Nationalism as US Influence Supplants European Influence 5 The Consolidation of Liberal Oligarchical (Top-Down) Nationalism in the Late Nineteenth Century 6 Latin American Nationalism in the Early to Mid-Twentieth Century: New Conceptions of Nationalism Spring Up 7 The Eagle and the Nationalists: The United States Responds to Economic Nationalism in Latin America during the Great Depression PART FOUR Nationalism and Modernization 8 Reviving the Populist Dream: Rise of Left-Wing Nationalism after the Second World War 9 Modernization Theory in Latin America, 1945–1970 PART FIVE Racial/Gender Aspects of Nationalism, Shift to the Political Right, War and Regionalism, and Neoliberalism 10 The Racial/Ethnic and Gender Aspects of Latin American National Identity 11 The High Tide of Latin American Nationalism in the 1960s and Nationalism Shifts to the Political Right 12 War, Nationalism, and Supranationalism in Twentieth-Century Latin America 13 Neoliberalism, Part I: Fall of the State in Latin America 14 Neoliberalism, Part II: The Rise of Indigenous Nationalism in Latin America and the Anti-Neoliberal Protests 15 Neoliberalism, Part III: Neoliberalism at High Tide PART SIX New Directions: Popular Culture, Migration, and Inter-American Relations 16 A Brief Analysis of Latin American Cultural Nationalism 17 Migration and Identity 18 Globalization, Nationalism, and Inter-American Relations 19 Conclusion Notes Select Bibliography Index