New Countries : Capitalism, Revolutions, and Nations in the Americas, 1750–1870 /
After 1750, the Americas lived political and popular revolutions, the fall of European empires, and the rise of nations as the world faced a new industrial capitalism. Political revolution made the United States the first new nation; revolutionary slaves made Haiti the second, freeing themselves and...
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2016.
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Table of Contents:
- The Americas in the rise of industrial capitalism / John Tutino
- The Cádiz liberal revolution and Spanish American independence / Roberto Breña
- Union, capitalism, and slavery in the "rising empire" of the United States / Adam Rothman
- From slave colony to Black nation : Haiti's revolutionary inversion / Carolyn Fick
- Cuban counterpoint : colonialism and continuity in the Atlantic world / David Sartorius
- Atlantic transformations and Brazil's imperial independence / Kirsten Schultz
- Becoming Mexico : the conflictive search for a North American nation / Alfredo Ávila and John Tutino
- The republic of Guatemala : stitching together a new country / Jordana Dym
- From one patria, two nations in the Andean heartland / Sarah C. Chambers
- Indigenous independence in Spanish South America / Erick D. Langer
- Epilogue. Consolidating divergence : the Americas and the world after 1850 / Erick D. Langer and John Tutino.