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20 - Latin America in world history

from Part IV - World regions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2015

By
Julie A. Charlip
Edited by
J. R. McNeill  and
Kenneth Pomeranz
J. R. McNeill
Affiliation:
Georgetown University, Washington DC
Kenneth Pomeranz
Affiliation:
University of Chicago
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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 - 555
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2015

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