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1 online resource (xvi, 629 pages) |
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Latin America readers |
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Latin America readers.
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| Contents |
No better land in the whole wide world / Pedro de Valdivia -- The poetry of place / Gabriela Mistral -- Chile's "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 conservationism in Chile / Rafael Elizalde MacClure -- In defense of the forests / Ricardo Carrere -- Pollution and politics in greater Santiago / Saar Van Hauwermeiren -- The Inca meet the Mapuche / Garcilaso de la Vega, Comentarios Reales -- A conquistador pleads his case / Pedro de Valdivia, Letter to the King -- Exalting the noble savage / Alonso de Ercilla, La Araucana -- Debating Indian slavery / Melchor Calderón and Diego de Rosales -- "To sell, give, donate, trade, or exchange" / Certification of Indian Enslavement, 1657 -- Portrait of late Colonial Santiago / Vicente Carvallo y Goyeneche |
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From war to diplomacy / The Summit of Tapihue -- "The Insolence of peons" / Mine owners of Copiapó -- A revolutionary journalist / Camilo Henríquez, Fundamental notions of the rights of peoples -- An Englishwoman observes the new nation / Maria Graham, Journal of a residence in Chile in 1822 -- The authoritarian republic / Diego Portales -- A political catechism / Francisco Bilbao, The American Gospel -- A literature of its own / Alberto Blest Gana, Martín Rivas -- The university and the nation / Andrés Bello, address delivered at the inauguration of the University of Chile -- A Polish scientist among the Mapuche / Ignacio Domeyko, Araucanía and its People -- German immigrants in the South / Vicente Pérez Rosales, Times gone by -- "A peculiar race of men" : gold, copper, and sweat / Charles Darwin, Beagle Diary |
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How to run an hacienda / José Manuel Balmaceda, The landowner's handbook -- A Franco-Chilean in the Gold Rush / Pedro Isidoro Combet, Memories of California -- The worst misery -- Letters to the Santiago orphanage -- A race of vagabonds -- Augusto Orrego Luco, the social question -- Race, nation, and the "roto chileno" / Nicolás Palacios -- The war of the Pacific, 1879-1893 / Alejandro Fierro -- The pacification of the Araucanía / Pascual Coña -- 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 / 1893 pastoral letter of Archbishop Mariano Casanova -- Workers' movements and the birth of the Chilean left / Luis Emilio Recabarren |
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Nitrate workers and state violence : the massacre at Escuela Santa María de Iquique / Elias Lafertte -- Women, work, and labor politics / Esther Valdés de Díaz -- The Lion of Tarapacá / Arturo Alessandri -- The decay of Chile's parliamentary republic / Alberto Edwards -- Military intervention and the end of the parliamentary republic / 1924 military coup pronunciamiento -- Poetic creationism / Vicente Huidobro -- "Mother of Chile" and poet of Chilenidad / Gabriela Mistral -- Industrialization and Chile's Arab immigrants / interview with Juan Yarur and the Arab community in Chile -- Social change and the crisis of the Catholic Church / Alberto Hurtado, "Is Chile a Catholic Country?" -- "I told myself I must find work, I cannot continue here" / interview with Elba Bravo, domestic service activist |
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Fundamental theoretical principles of the Socialist Party / The Chilean Socialist Party, 1933 -- Chile's public health crisis / Salvador Allende -- The Popular Front / Pedro Aguirre Cerda -- Rural workers, landowners, and the politics of compromise / The League of Poor Campesinos of Las Cabras and the Sociedad Nacional de Agricultura -- Chile's "frustrated development" / Aníbal Pinto -- The Movement for the Emancipation of Chilean Women (MEMCH) / interview with Elena Caffarena -- Autobiography and poems / Pablo Neruda -- Miners' strikes and the demise of the Popular Front / U.S. State Department cables |
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"Our constitution and our laws contain iniquitous precepts" / Elena Caffarena -- Rural-urban migration and the founding of a Santiago shantytown / Juan Lemuñir -- Klein-Sacks : Chile's first experiment with neo-liberalism (image) -- Between capitalism and communism / Eduardo Frei, The Mission of Social Christianity in Chile -- Property and production / a brochure promoting Christian Democracy's agrarian reform -- The Christian left / Jacques Chonchol and Julio Silva Solar, Toward a Communitarian World -- The new song movement / interview with Inti-Illimani -- Lyrics of the new song movement / Violeta Parra and Victor Jara -- Gallery : The election of 1970 -- The United States and the election of Salvador Allende / de-classified U.S. government documents -- A Mapuche land takeover / Peasants and landowners of Rucalán -- "We take the factory" / Workers at the Yarur Cotton Mill -- "Informing the people" / President Salvador Allende Gossens |
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"Women's power" against Allende / interview with Carmen Saenz -- "So that Chile can renew its march forward" / Chilean Business and Professional Associations' Demands -- "The Demands of the people" / Movement of the Revolutionary Left -- A treasonous history / A group of retired generals and admirals -- United States policy and covert action against Allende / The Church Committee, 1975 -- "Everyone knows what is going to happen" / Radomiro Tomic to General Carlos Prats -- "These are my final words" / President Salvador Allende Gossens -- The military takes Santiago / Peter Winn -- The new military regime justifies intervention / Government Junta of the Armed Forces and Carabineros of Chile -- Pinochet's caravan of death / Patricia Verdugo -- Women and torture / The National Commission on Political Detention and Torture -- Transnationalization of terror : Operation Condor / US Federal Bureau of Investigations -- The 1980 Constitution / Jaime Guzmán -- Shantytown protest / The Pobladores speak -- The Chilean Women 's Movement / Julieta Kirkwood -- The kids of Barrio Alto / Alberto Fuguet -- Sexuality and soccer / Pedro Lemebel -- Dictatorship as revolution / Joaquín Lavín and Ernesto Tironi -- The whole world was watching / The observer group of the Latin American Studies |
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Justice "to the degree possible" / Patricio Aylwin Azócar -- "The custody of the eyes" / Diamela Eltit -- Legislating gender equality / Pilar Molina Armas -- Gallery : social movements in transition -- The credit-card citizen / Tomás Moulin, Chile Today: Anatomy of a Myth -- "Chile's greatest addition to the Spanish language" / John Brennan and Alvaro Taboada -- "I never looked for power" / Augusto Pinochet Ugarte -- Historians critique Pinochet's "Anti-history" / eleven Chilean historians (also signed by 73 other scholars) -- The Mapuche nation and the Chilean nation / Elicura Chihuailaf -- Growth with equity / Alejandro Foxley -- The politics of concertación / Alfredo Jocelyn-Holt -- "Chile : a Catholic country?" / Antonio Delfau, S.J. -- "To never again live it, to never again deny it" / President Ricardo Lagos, The Valech report -- The Chilean army after Pinochet / Army General and Commander in Chief Juan Emilio Cheyre Espinosa -- La Presidenta de Chile, President Michelle Bachelet, 2006- 2010 -- Gallery : bicentennial embraces |
| Summary |
Perfect for the student or traveler, The Chile Reader 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America.
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Civilization
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Politics and government
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Historia.
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Politiska förhållanden.
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| SUBJECT |
Chile -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85023878
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Chile -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89001312
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Chile -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85023895
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Chile
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Chili.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hutchison, Elizabeth Q. (Elizabeth Quay), editor.
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Klubock, Thomas Miller, editor
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Milanich, Nara B., 1972- editor.
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Winn, Peter, editor
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| ISBN |
9780822395836 |
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0822395835 |
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