From Frontiers to Football

An Alternative History of Latin America since 1800

Matthew Brown

• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9781780233536
• eBook ISBN: 9781780233956
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Latin American & Caribbean History
• Index: History

With Brazil hosting the FIFA World Cup this summer and the Olympic Games in 2016, all eyes are on Latin America. But what vision of these countries will we be given? Will our airwaves be full of cultural stereotypes about Latin Americans and inaccurate interpretations of the region's position in the world? In From Frontiers to Football, Matthew Brown provides a much-needed historical analysis to rebut misconceptions about Latin America's past while giving readers the tools with which to understand the region's complex present. Telling the story of Latin America's engagement with global empires from 1800 to today, From Frontiers to Football is as much a narrative of repeated cycles, continued dependency, and thwarted dreams as it is a tale of imperial designs overthrown, colonial armies defeated, and other successes that have inspired colonized peoples across the globe. Brown restores a cultural history to the continent, giving as much attention to pop singer Shakira and retired footballer Pelé as he does to coffee producers, copper miners, government policies, and covert imperialism. Latin America, Brown shows, is no longer a frontier or periphery, but rather is at the forefront of innovation and a global center for social, cultural, and economic activities. Clear and readable, From Frontiers to Football presents a compelling introduction to the history of Latin America's interactions with the world over the last two centuries.

REFERENCES

Latin America and the World: An Introduction

1 Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent (London, 1973); Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, What if Latin America Ruled the World? How the South will take the North into the 22nd Century (London, 2011).

2 Charles Jones, American Civilization (London, 2007), p. 52; C. A. Bayly, The Birth of the Modern World, 1780–1914: Global Connections and Comparisons (Oxford, 2004).

3 Niall Ferguson, Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World (London, 2004); Niall Ferguson, Civilization: The Six Killer Apps of Western Power (London, 2011).

4 José Moya, ‘Introduction’, in Oxford Handbook of Latin American History, ed. Moya (Oxford, 2011); Walter Mignolo, The Idea of Latin America (Oxford, 2004).

5 Leslie Bethell, ‘Brazil and “Latin America”’, Journal of Latin American Studies, XLII/3 (2010), pp. 457–85.

6 Online at www.latinobarometro.org.

7 Moya, ‘Introduction’, pp. 4–5, 7–8.

8 The following discussion of the three broad areas borrows heavily from Moya’s explanation in his introduction to the Oxford Handbook of Latin American History. He extends the schema to cover the Americas as a whole.

9 Moya, ‘Introduction’, pp. 2–3.

10 For example Bayly, The Birth of the Modern World.

11 Moya, ‘Introduction’, p. 10.

12 Aníbal Quijano, ‘Coloniality of Power and Eurocentrism in Latin America’, International Sociology, XV/2 (2000), pp. 215–32.

13 Nestor García Canclini, Hybrid Cultures: Strategies for Entering and Leaving Modernity (Minneapolis, MN, 1995); Fernando Ortiz, Contrapunteo cubano del tabaco y el azúcar (Havana, 1940).

14 For a general overview with good coverage and detail see Teresa A. Meade, A History of Modern Latin America, 1800 to the present (Oxford, 2010), Edwin Williamson, The Penguin History of Latin America (London, 2008), or Will Fowler, Latin America since 1780 (London, 2008). Leslie Bethell, ed., The Cambridge History of Latin America (Cambridge, 1986) remains a classic reference work.

15 Marcello Carmagnani, The Other West: Latin America from Invasion to Globalization [in Italian, 2003], trans. Rosanna M. Giammanco Frongia (Berkeley, CA, 2011).

16 Ibid., pp. 116–17.

17 Jones, American Civilization, p. 89. See also Felipe Fernández-Armesto, The Americas: A Hemispheric History (London, 2003).

18 See Richard J. Evans, ‘Prologue: What is History – Now?’, in What is History Now?, ed. David Cannadine (London, 2002), pp. 1–18.

ONE: Goodbye, Colonial Worlds: Independence

1 Rafe Blaufarb, ‘The Western Question: The Geopolitics of Latin American Independence’, Hispanic American Historical Review, CXII/3 (2007), pp. 742–63; Anthony McFarlane, War and Independence in Spanish America (London, 2014).

2 Martin Robson, Britain, Portugal and South America in the Napoleonic Wars: Alliances and Diplomacy in Economic Maritime Conflict (London, 2011).

3 Klaus Gallo, Great Britain and Argentina (Basingstoke, 2001).

4 Racine, ‘“This England, This Now”: British Cultural and Intellectual Influence in Spanish America in the Independence-Era’, Hispanic American Historical Review, XC/3 (2010), pp. 423–54.

5 Simón Bolivar, ‘Letter Inviting Governments to a Congress in Panama, 7 December 1824’, reproduced in Simón Bolivar and the Bolivarian Revolution, Introduced by Hugo Chávez, ed. and trans. Matthew Brown (New York, 2009), p. 166; for his ‘final lament’: John Lynch, Simón Bolívar: A Life (New Haven, CT, 2006).

6 Simón Bolívar, ‘The Jamaica Letter’ (1815), in Simón Bolívar, ed. Brown, pp. 40–64.

7 David Brading, The First America: The Spanish Monarchy, Creole Patriots and the Liberal State, 1492–1867 (Cambridge, 1991); María Teresa Calderón and Clément Thibaud, La majestad de los pueblos en la Nueva Granada y Venezuela (1780–1832) (Bogotá, 2011).

8 Cecilia Méndez, The Plebian Republic: The Huanta Rebellion and the Making of the Peruvian State, 1820–1850 (Durham, NC, 2005).

9 Peter Blanchard, Under the Flags of Freedom: Slave Soldiers and the Wars of Independence in Spanish South America (Pittsburgh, PA, 2008).

10 David Geggus, ed., The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World (Columbia, SC, 2001).

11 Rebecca Cole Heinowitz, Spanish America and British Romanticism, 1777–1826 (Edinburgh, 2010); Racine, ‘“This England, This Now”’; D.A.G. Waddell, ‘British Neutrality and Spanish–American Independence: The Problem of Foreign Enlistment’, Journal of Latin American Studies, XIX/1 (1987), pp. 1–18; John Lynch, ‘British Policy and Spanish America, 1783–1808’, Journal of Latin American Studies, I/1 (1969), pp. 1–30.

12 Gabriel B. Paquette, ‘The Brazilian Origins of the Portuguese Constitution’, in Connections after Colonialism: Europe and Latin America in the 1820s, ed. Matthew Brown and Paquette (Tuscaloosa, AL, 2013), pp. 108–38.

13 Matthew Brown, Adventuring through Spanish Colonies: Simón Bolívar, Foreign Mercenaries and the Birth of New Nations (Liverpool, 2006), pp. 13–30.

14 Charles Stephenson, The Admiral’s Secret Weapon: Lord Dundonald and the Origins of Chemical Warfare (Woodbridge, 2006).

15 David Cordingly, Cochrane the Dauntless: The Life and Adventures of Admiral Thomas Cochrane, 1775–1860 (London, 2007); Brian Vale, A War Betwixt Englishmen: Brazil against Argentina on the River Plate, 1825–1830 (London, 2001).

16 Eric Van Young, ...

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Latin America and the World: An Introduction
• ONE Goodbye, Colonial Worlds: Independence
• TWO Building Nations, Looking for Models
• THREE Raw Materials, Raw Wounds
• FOUR New Exchanges, New Markets
• FIVE Beneath a New Empire
• SIX Latin America in the Cold War
• SEVEN Violence and Exoticism
• EIGHT Unleashed from Empire?
• REFERENCES
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• PHOTO ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• INDEX