Book contents
- The Cambridge World HistoryVolume VII
- The Cambridge World History
- Production, Destruction, and Connection, 1750–Present
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Production, destruction, and connection, 1750–present: introduction
- Part I Material matrices
- Part II Population and disease
- Part III Politics
- Part IV World regions
- 18 The Middle East in world history since 1750
- 19 East Asia in world history, 1750–21st century
- 20 Latin America in world history
- 21 Africa in world history
- 22 The United States in world history since the 1750s
- 23 The economic history of the Pacific
- Index
- References
20 - Latin America in world history
from Part IV - World regions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2015
Book contents
- The Cambridge World HistoryVolume VII
- The Cambridge World History
- Production, Destruction, and Connection, 1750–Present
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Production, destruction, and connection, 1750–present: introduction
- Part I Material matrices
- Part II Population and disease
- Part III Politics
- Part IV World regions
- 18 The Middle East in world history since 1750
- 19 East Asia in world history, 1750–21st century
- 20 Latin America in world history
- 21 Africa in world history
- 22 The United States in world history since the 1750s
- 23 The economic history of the Pacific
- Index
- References
Summary
The creation of Latin America, a product of the Iberian conquest of the Americas, is testament to the region as part of the world. A few generations after the conquests, colonists in the New World came to resent more recent arrivals from the Iberian peninsula. The colonies served as the battleground on which European struggles were fought. The splintering of the new republics was indicative of the intense regionalism throughout Latin America. The new nations were further weakened by domestic divisions, which led to chronic warfare. The regional disputes reflect one of the key political divisions: centralism versus federalism. Latin American elites' approach to economic development followed the ideas of David Ricardo, which argued that each country should produce the goods for which it was suited. To expand export production, the elites needed two elements: land and labor. George Canning advocated a neo-colonialism that would be carried out through economic means, without the problems of a formal political colony.
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- The Cambridge World History , pp. 526 - 555Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015
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