Latin America and the Caribbean
by David L. Clawson, Benjamin F. Tillman
6th Edition
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book Details
| Print ISBN | 9780190497828 |
| eText ISBN | 9780190497842 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Edition | 6th Edition |
| Language | English |
Latin America and the Caribbean, 6th Edition, is a textbook providing comprehensive regional coverage of Middle and South America alongside the Caribbean. It introduces the area's physical landscapes, cultural traditions, and socioeconomic structures for students and instructors.
Core themes include landform regions, historical institutions, political transitions, and cultural identities. The textbook also addresses economic patterns ranging from agricultural development to mining, manufacturing, and urbanization.
Updated to reflect recent developments with an increased focus on environmental concerns, the volume features case studies on events such as natural hazards. Each chapter concludes with a summary, key terms, and suggested readings.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: The Changing Face of Latin America and the Caribbean
- • Geography and Regional Studies
- • Delimiting Latin America and the Caribbean
- • Latin American and Caribbean Subregions
Chapter 2: Landform Regions of Latin America and the Caribbean
- • The Eastern Highlands
- • The Central Lowlands
- • The Western Alpine System
- • Recent Earthquake and Volcanic Activity
- • Case Study 2.1: The 2010 Haitian and Chilean Earthquakes
- • Physiographic Regions of the Andes
- • Physiographic Regions of Central America
- • Physiographic Regions of Mexico and the Caribbean
Chapter 3: Weather and Climate
- • Controls of Climate
- • Temperature
- • Altitude
- • Ocean Currents
- • Latitude
- • Precipitation
- • Continentality
- • Atmospheric Pressure Belts
- • Prevailing Winds and Orographic Effects
- • Hurricanes
- • Case Study 3.1: The 2008 Caribbean Hurricane Season
Chapter 4: Natural Regions
- • Tropical Rain Forest
- • Case Study 4.1: Biodiversity and the Tropical Rain Forest
- • Tropical and Temperate Savanna
- • Desert
- • Steppe
- • Humid Subtropical
- • Mediterranean
- • Marine West Coast Rain Forest
- • Highland
Chapter 5: Iberian Heritage, Conquest, and Institutions
- • Latin America's Roman Heritage
- • Islam in Iberia
- • Spanish Responses to Islamic Rule
- • The Spanish Reconquest
- • The Conquest and Settlement of Latin America
- • Mexico and Central America
- • South America
- • The Colonial Era
- • The Mercantile System
- • The Encomienda System
- • Decline of Spanish Influence in the Greater Caribbean Basin
- • Peninsular-Creole Divisions
- • Independence and the Republican Period
- • Conservative-Liberal Schisms
- • Caudillismo
- • Case Study 5.1: The 2009 Honduran Coup d'État
- • Political Maturation in the Late Twentieth Century
Chapter 6: Political Change
- • Mexico
- • Central America
- • Guatemala
- • Belize
- • Honduras
- • El Salvador
- • Nicaragua
- • Costa Rica
- • Panama
- • The Greater Antilles
- • Cuba
- • Jamaica
- • Haiti
- • Dominican Republic
- • Puerto Rico
- • Andean South America
- • Venezuela
- • Colombia
- • Ecuador
- • Case Study 6.1: Columbia's Violent Drug War
- • Peru
- • Bolivia
- • Southern South America
- • Chile
- • Paraguay
- • Argentina
- • Uruguay
- • Brazil
- • The Guianas
- • Guyana
- • Suriname
- • French Guiana
Chapter 7: Race, Ethnicity, and Social Class
- • Native Population Levels at the Time of the Conquest
- • Native American Civilizations on the Eve of the Conquest
- • Western Highland Peoples
- • The Aztecs
- • The Maya
- • The Chibcha
- • The Inca
- • Case Study 7.1: Native Animals of the Andes
- • The Southern Andean Indians
- • Eastern Lowland Peoples
- • The Southern Hunters
- • The Tropical Forest Dwellers
- • Common Indian Traits
- • Impacts of European Conquest and Settlement
- • Causes of Indian Depopulation
- • Aftermath of the Conquest
- • Blacks in the New World
- • Antecedents of Latin American Black Slavery
- • The African Slave Trade
- • Living Conditions in the New World
- • Forms of Slave Resistance
- • Abolition
- • Case Study 7.2: Maroon Societies in Latin America
- • East Asians in the Caribbean
- • Racial Mixing
- • The Evolution of Social Races
- • Racial Whitening
- • Racism and Its Ramifications
- • Case Study 7.3: Indian Homelands and the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor
- • Current Racial Patterns
- • Mexico and Central America
- • South America
- • The Caribbean
Chapter 8: Latin America as a Culture Region
- • Honor and Shame: Individual Identity and Self-Worth
- • Machismo
- • Marianismo
- • Reproduction and Honor
- • Personalismo
- • Socioeconomic Classes
- • The Upper Class
- • Case Study 8.1: The Hidden Costs of Corruption
- • The Middle Class
- • Case Study 8.2: The Perpetuation of Oligarchical Power in a Central American Nation
- • The Lower Class
- • Consequences of Social Rigidity
- • Fatalism and Luck
- • Dual Educational Systems
- • Family Life
- • Street Children
- • Possible Responses
- • Status of Women
- • Case Study 8.3: Women and the Informal Economic Sector
- • Other Elements of Culture
- • Literature and Poetry
- • Architecture, Painting, and Sculpture
- • Music
- • Sports
- • Mass Media and Tempo of Living
Chapter 9: Religion
- • Religious Practice in Indigenous America
- • Medieval Iberian Catholicism on the Eve of the Conquest
- • The Spiritual Conquest of the New World
- • Religious Syncretism
- • Marianism and the Cult of the Virgin Mother
- • Challenges to Colonial Catholicism
- • Case Study 9.1: Cuzco's Lord of The Earthquakes
- • The Economic and Political Power of the Church in the Colonial and Republican Periods
- • The Current Status of Latin American Catholicism
- • Subtypes of Latin American Catholicism
- • Forms of African Folk Catholicism
- • Non-Catholic Faiths in Latin America and the Caribbean
- • Hinduism and Islam
- • Case Study 9.2: Jamaican Rastafarianism
- • Judaism
- • Case Study 9.3: Venta Prieta: A Jewish Community in Mexico
- • Protestantism
- • Characteristics of and Challenges to Latin American Protestantism
- • The Catholic Counter-Reformation
Chapter 10: Agriculture and Agrarian Development
- • Case Study 10.1: Waru Waru Agriculture
- • Impact of the European Conquest
- • Enclave Economies
- • Haciendas
- • Estancias
- • Plantations
- • Sugar Cane in the Caribbean
- • Coffee in Colombia, Central America, and Brazil
- • Bananas in Central America and Ecuador
- • The Plantation Controversy
- • Smallholder Agriculture
- • Common Attributes of Smallholder Agriculturists
- • Slash and Burn Agriculture
- • Peasant Agriculture
- • Agrarian Reform
- • New Land Colonization
- • Agriculture Modernization
- • Expansion of Commercial Agriculture
- • Plant Crop Production
- • Animal Husbandry
- • Tree Farming
- • Fishing
- • Case Study 10.2: Harvest Strip Forestry
- • Narcotic Drug Production
Chapter 11: Mining, Manufacturing, and Tourism
- • Pre-Conquest Mining and Manufacturing
- • Mining and Manufacturing in Colonial Latin America
- • Silver Mining
- • Impact of Amalgamation
- • Labor Supply
- • Gold and Diamond Mining in Colonial Brazil
- • Other Colonial Mining Centers
- • Impacts of Mining
- • Manufacturing in Colonial Latin America
- • Case Study 11.1: Mining and Regional Development in Colonial Latin America
- • Mining and Manufacturing During the Early Republican Period
- • Beginnings of Modern Manufacturing
- • Case Study 11.2: "Big Bill" Greene and American Industrialization in Northern Mexico
- • The Great Depression and Import Substitution Industrialization
- • Growth Poles and the Spatial Concentration of Industry
- • Chile and the Arica Automobile Manufacturing Experiment
- • Brazil: Large-Scale Regional Development and Underdevelopment
- • Venezuela: Growth Pole Development in a Frontier Setting
- • State Ownership and Privatization
- • Export Promotion Manufacturing: An Alternative Development Model
- • Puerto Rico's Operation Bootstrap
- • The Mexican Maquiladora Industry
- • Other Export Promotion Initiatives
- • Case Study 11.3: Offshore Caribbean Financial Services Industries
- • Current Industrialization Patterns
- • Current Mining Developments
- • Energy Reserves and Development
- • Hydroelectric Power Generation
- • Renewable Organic Fuels
- • Tourism
Chapter 12: Urbanization, Population Growth, and Migration
- • Native American Urbanization
- • Colonial European Settlement
- • Colonial Urban Primacy
- • Functional Classification of Cities
- • Morphology of the Colonial City
- • Settlement in Portuguese America
- • Rural Settlements
- • Late Colonial Population Levels
- • The Republican Period
- • The Twentieth Century
- • Case Study 12.1: Confederate Settlements in Latin America and the Caribbean
- • The Demographic Transition Model
- • Urbanization
- • City Size in the Modern Era
- • Urban Primacy
- • Morphology of the Modern City
- • The Inner City: Zone of Commercial High-Rises and Low-Income Tenements
- • Case Study 12.2: Social Expressions of the Latin American Plaza
- • Peripheral Squatter Settlements
- • Urban Population Densities
- • Case Study 12.3: Planned Squatter Settlement Invasions
- • New Cities
- • Migration
- • Interregional Flows
- • Migration between Latin American and Caribbean Countries
- • Migration to Europe, Asia, and Anglo America
- • Political Refugees
- • The Brain Drain
- • Remittances
- • Conclusions: Are Latin America and the Caribbean Overpopulated?
Chapter 13: Development and Health
- • Economic Development and Underdevelopment During the Colonial and Republican Periods
- • The International Financial Cycle
- • Recurring Economic Crises
- • The Lost Decade
- • Foreign Indebtedness
- • Inflation
- • Currency Devaluation
- • Economic Stagnation and Human Suffering
- • Fiscal Restructuring and Austerity
- • Case Study 13.1: IMF Austerity Measures and Civil Unrest in Latin America and the Caribbean
- • The Found Decade
- • Regional and Subregional Economic Unions
- • Case Study 13.2: Structural Reform and Argentine Economic and Political Turmoil
- • Central American Common Market
- • Andean Community
- • Caribbean Community
- • Southern Cone Common Market
- • North American Free Trade Association
- • Free Trade Area of the Americas
- • Health and Nutritional Development in Latin America and the Caribbean
- • Provision of Clean Water and Sewage Treatment
- • Food and Nutrition
- • Case Study 13.3: The Latin American Cholera Epidemic
- • Child Mortality Rate
- • Health and the Physical-Cultural Environment
- • Tropical Lowlands
- • Highlands
- • Case Study 13.4: Environment and Health in Mexico City
- • Urban Centers
- • Rural Regions
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