New countries : capitalism, revolutions, and nations in the Americas, 1750-1870 /

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...

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Main Author: Tutino, John, 1947- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham ; London : Duke University Press, [2016]
Edition:[Open access version].
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Table of Contents:
  • The Americas in the rise of industrial capitalism / John Tutino
  • The Cádiz liberal revolution and Spanish American independence / Roberto Breña
  • Union, capitalism, and slavery in the "rising empire" of the United States / Adam Rothman
  • From slave colony to Black nation : Haiti's revolutionary inversion / Carolyn Fick
  • Cuban counterpoint : colonialism and continuity in the Atlantic world / David Sartorius
  • Atlantic transformations and Brazil's imperial independence / Kirsten Schultz
  • Becoming Mexico : the conflictive search for a North American nation / Alfredo Ávila and John Tutino
  • The republic of Guatemala : stitching together a new country / Jordana Dym
  • From one patria, two nations in the Andean heartland / Sarah C. Chambers
  • Indigenous independence in Spanish South America / Erick D. Langer
  • Epilogue. Consolidating divergence : the Americas and the world after 1850 / Erick D. Langer and John Tutino.