Colonial Legacies

The Problem of Persistence in Latin American History

Jeremy Adelman

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN:
  9780415921534
• eBook ISBN:
  9781136052545
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Social History
• Index: History

More than other Atlantic societies, Latin America is shackled to its past. This collection is an exploration of the binding historical legacies--the making of slavery, patrimonial absolutist states, backward agriculture and the imprint of the Enlightenment--with which Latin America continues to grapple.

Leading writers and scholars reflect on how this heritage emerged from colonial institutions and how historians have tackled these legacies over the years, suggesting that these deep encumbrances are why the region has failed to live up to liberal-capitalist expectations. They also invite discussion about the political, economic and cultural heritages of Atlantic colonialism through the idea that persistence is a powerful organizing framework for understanding particular kinds of historical processes.

Index

Abad y Quiero, Manuel, 125

abolitionism, 31, 33

absolutism, 4, 6, 10, 68, 85

Acapulco, 101

Acosta, 33, 37

Adams, John, 86, 89–90

Adolfo Hansen, João, 189

Africa, ix, 2, 15, 24, 25, 30–2, 35–6, 40, 48, 53, 75, 178, 209, 232n24; and disease exchange, 17–20, 22, 25; colonial, 29–49, 190, 237n32; European empires in, 29, 30–49; exploitation of, 35; military dictators in, 48; North, 19; political instability in, 46, 48; postcolonial, 47–8; South, 37, 41–2; sub-Saharan, 26, 32; tropical, 19, 24, 26; West, 19, 20, 21, 23, 72

African: chiefs and headmen, 38–40; coast, 17, 73; development goals, 47; governments, 47; immigrants, 19; independence, 48; institutions, 25; laborers, 42; law and custom, 26–7; mariners, 17; mine workers, 41–2; nationalism, 46, 48; political independence, 46; population densities, 26, 37; rebellions, 36–7, 45; religions, 43; slaves, 23, 25, 72, 176; trade, 72

African(s), 25–7, 30–1, 33, 38, 144, 149, 159, 177; negative stereotypes about, 33

Afro-American Atlantic, 69–90

agrarian: reform, 201; regions, 201; societies, 208

agregados, 183, 186

agricultural: development, 200–1; economy, 128; export sector, 162–3; goods, 199–200; labor, 25, 101, 120–1, 130; production, 25,...

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface
• one Introduction: The Problem of Persistence in Latin American History Jeremy Adelman
• two Europe and the Atlantic World Philip D. Curtin
• three Colonial Africa through the Lens of Colonial Latin America Robert L. Tignor
• four Financing Empire: The European Diaspora of Silver by War Barbara Hadley Stein and Stanley J. Stein
• five Hegemonies Old and New: The Ibero-Atlantic in the Long Eighteenth Century Kenneth R. Maxwell
• six Dependency and the Colonial Heritage in Southeastern Mesoamerica Robert W. Patch
• seven Agriculture and the Colonial Heritage of Latin America: Evidence from Bourbon Mexico Richard J. Salvucci
• eight The Tricks of Time: Colonial Legacies and Historical Sensibilities in Latin America Steve J. Stern
• nine Argentines Ponder the Burden of the Past Tulio Halperin Donghi
• ten The Colonial Past: Conceptualizing Post Dependentista Brazil Stuart B. Schwartz
• eleven Furtado, Social Science, and History Joseph L. Love
• twelve The Elision of the Middle Classes and Beyond: History Politics, and Development Studies in Latin America’s “Short Twentieth Century” Michael F. Jimenez
• Notes
• Notes on Contributors
• Index