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A brief history of Central America / [electronic resource] Héctor Pérez-Brignoli ; translated by Ricardo B. Sawrey A. and Susana Stettri de Sawrey.

By: Pérez Brignoli, Héctor.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, c1989Description: xvi, 223 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 0520060490 (alk. paper); 9780520060494 (alk. paper); 0520068327 (pbk) :; 9780520068322 (pbk).Uniform titles: Breve historia de Centroamérica. English Subject(s): Central America -- History | Central America, history | Amérique centrale -- Histoire | HISTORY | POLITICAL CONDITIONS | SOCIAL CONDITIONS | ECONOMIC CONDITIONS | CENTRAL AMERICA | Central America -- History | Einführung | Geschichte | MittelamerikaDDC classification: 972.8 Other classification: 15.85 | NK 2850 Online resources: Free eBook from the Internet Archive
Contents:
Land and the people: Environmental conditions -- Peripheral and rural world -- Regional unity and diversity -- Panama -- Belize -- Colonial past (1520-1821): Century of conquest -- Seventeenth-century depression -- Enlightenment -- In search of progress: Independence and the formation of nation-states in the nineteenth century: Failure of the Central American Confederation -- Conservative restoration and foreign threats -- Liberal reforms: New social order -- State, society, nation -- Impoverishing growth (1900-1945): Export economies -- El Senor Presidente: Theory and practice of liberal politics -- Social change -- Big neighbor, good stick -- Growing inequalities (1945-1980): Reform movements in perspective -- Economic change: Industrialization and the Central American common market -- Politics and society: Crisis of the liberal order -- Present crisis (1980-1987) : Overview -- Disparities among the nations -- Uncertain future.
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Translation of: Breve historia de Centroamérica.

Bibliography: p. 201-209.

Includes index.

Land and the people: Environmental conditions -- Peripheral and rural world -- Regional unity and diversity -- Panama -- Belize -- Colonial past (1520-1821): Century of conquest -- Seventeenth-century depression -- Enlightenment -- In search of progress: Independence and the formation of nation-states in the nineteenth century: Failure of the Central American Confederation -- Conservative restoration and foreign threats -- Liberal reforms: New social order -- State, society, nation -- Impoverishing growth (1900-1945): Export economies -- El Senor Presidente: Theory and practice of liberal politics -- Social change -- Big neighbor, good stick -- Growing inequalities (1945-1980): Reform movements in perspective -- Economic change: Industrialization and the Central American common market -- Politics and society: Crisis of the liberal order -- Present crisis (1980-1987) : Overview -- Disparities among the nations -- Uncertain future.

Translation of: Breve historia de Centroamérica.

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