Assignment task: Who benefited from independence? Why did the rivalry between Conservatives and Liberals shape nations? What is import-export-led growth? Please cite at least two of the following readings.
Relevant Terms, Concepts, Historical Figures & Events: Path-dependence; Critical junctures; Power vacuums; Church versus the State; Nationalism; Constitutional experiments; Civil wars; Gran Colombia (1819-1831); Mexican-American War (1846-1848), Federal Republic of Central America (1823-1841); Paraguayan War (1864-1870); Conquest of the Desert (Argentina) and Occupation of the Araucanía (Chile); William Walker.
Assigned Readings:
Halperín Donghi, Tulio. The Contemporary History of Latin America, trans. by John Charles Chasteen (Durham: Duke University Press, 1993), 74-157.
Reid, Michael. Forgotten Continent: A History of the New Latin America (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017), 46-80. • Martí, José Our America, 1891