The Oxford Handbook of Central American History (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Holden, Robert

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Central America is a region defined primarily by its geographical configuration as a canal-friendly isthmus, and its three-century history as the Spanish Kingdom of Guatemala. Having gained independence in 1821, the Kingdom broke up into the nations of Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica after two turbulent decades as a federated republic. Political instability and violence, poverty and inequality, ethnic strife, military rule, and a historic economic dependence on the export of coffee and bananas marked the region's history. Owing to its isthmian geography and political strife, Central America became a frequent target of US government intervention. Intense US political, economic, and military action both preceded and accompanied the revolutionary civil wars of the 1970s and 1980s. With British Honduras's independence from Great Britain in 1981 as Belize, and the acquisition by Panama of full sovereignty over its territory in 1999, Central America increasingly defined itself as a region of seven countries. The Oxford Handbook of Central American History analyzes major themes in the historiography of this seven-nation region of Latin America. Individual chapters interpret the histories of each of the seven countries. Most concentrate on themes that cut across national boundaries, beginning with the history of the region's diverse natural environment, and continuing with the Indigenous peoples, the Spanish conquest and colonial rule, and the independence process. Nine chapters focus on region-wide problems that emerged with great salience after independence, including the economy, US relations, the armed forces, the Cold War, religion, and literature, among others. Together, the book's twenty-five chapters illuminate Central America's coherence as a region of Latin America while emphasizing its diversity within and across national boundaries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197638507
• Artikelnr.: 64114725

Autorenporträt

Robert H. Holden is a professor of Latin American history at Old Dominion University. He is the author of Armies Without Nations: Public Violence and State Formation in Central America, 1821-1960; the co-author, with Rina Villars, of Contemporary Latin America: 1970 to the Present; and he contributed the essay on modern Latin America to volume four of The Cambridge World History of Violence.

Inhaltsangabe

* OXFORD HANDBOOK OF CENTRAL AMERICAN HISTORY
* Introduction: Interpreting the History of a Region in Crisis
* Robert H. Holden
* Part I: Human and Territorial Contexts
* 1 Land and Climate: Natural Constraints and Socio-Environmental
Transformations
* Anthony Goebel McDermott
* 2 Regaining Ground: Indigenous Populations and Territories
* Peter H. Herlihy, Matthew L. Fahrenbruch, Taylor A. Tappan
* 3 The Ancient Civilizations
* William R. Fowler
* 4 Marginalization, Assimilation, and Resurgence: The Indigenous
Peoples since Independence
* Wolfgang Gabbert
* Part II: Conquest, Colonialization, and the Path to Self Rule
* 5 The Spanish Conquest?
* Laura E. Matthew
* 6 Spanish Colonial Rule
* Stephen Webre
* 7 The Kingdom of Guatemala as a Cultural Crossroads
* Brianna Leavitt-Alcántara
* 8 From Kingdom to Republics, 1808-1840
* Aaron Pollack
* Part III: Challenges of Modernity since c. 1840 (Regional Frame)
* 9 The Political Economy
* Robert G. Williams
* 10 State Making and Nation Building
* David Díaz Arias
* 11 Central America and the United States
* Michel Gobat
* 12 The Cold War: Authoritarianism, Empire, and Social Revolution
* Joaquín M. Chávez
* 13 Central America since the 1990s: Crime, Violence, and the Pursuit
of Democracy
* Christine J. Wade
* 14 The Rise and Retreat of the Armed Forces
* Orlando J. Pérez and Randy Pestana
* 15 Religion, Politics, and the State
* Bonar L. Hernández Sandoval
* 16 Women and Citizenship: Feminist and Suffragist Movements,
1880-1957
* Eugenia Rodriguez Sáenz
* 17 Literature, Society, and Politics
* Werner Mackenbach
* Part IV: Challenges of Modernity since c. 1840 (National Frame)
* 18 Guatemala
* David Carey Jr.
* 19 Honduras
* Dario A. Euraque
* 20 El Salvador
* Erik Ching
* 21 Nicaragua
* Julie A. Charlip
* 22 Costa Rica
* Iván Molina
* 23 Panama
* Michael E. Donoghue
* 24 Belize
* Mark Moberg
* Contributors
* Index