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Intro -- Title Page -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Interview -- Chapter 2: What Do You Do? -- Chapter 3: What is Valuable? -- Chapter 4: Name It and Claim It -- Chapter 5: Work and the Protestant Work Ethic -- Chapter 6: How Work Got To Be a Dirty Word -- Chapter 7: Some Very Hard Truths -- Chapter 8: A Very Sad Story -- Chapter 9: In God We Trust -- Conclusion -- Bibliography.

On a hot day in early 1890, American steam dredgers lowered their scoops into the mud of the San Juan River in Nicaragua, and so began the job of connecting the seas.

Inhaltsverzeichnis: "At two hours after midnight the land appeared" : Christopher Columbus's first voyage to America, 1492-1493 -- "Everyone was amazed to catch sight of ... things they had never dreamed or heard" : History of the Indies, 1493 -- "The Spaniards were guilty of the very same thing they accused the Indians of" : History of the Indies, ca. 1503-1509 -- "There I saw such great cruelties" : An account, much abbreviated, of the destruction of the Indies, 1542 -- "And so he had them burned alive" : An account, much abbreviated, of the destruction of the Indies, ca. 1540s -- "My one motive in dictating this book" : prologue to the History of the Indies, 1552 -- "Enslavement of blacks was every bit as unjust as that of the Indians" : History of the Indies, ca. 1550-1560 -- "By what right and with what justice?" History of the Indies, 1511 -- "The preservation ...of the Indians, has always been the primary purpose of our policy" : New Laws of 1542, Council of the Indies -- "For everyone to accept our faith, he or she must have ...a clear liberty of choice" : Twenty reasons against the Encomienda, 1552 -- "Our Christian religion is equal for all ...and does not deprive any of their liberty" : History of the Indies, 1527-1561 -- "The one and only way" : The only way of attracting all peoples to the true religion, ca. 1534 -- "If they refuse to listen, we must go to other places" : In defense of the Indians, 1550-1552 -- "All humankind is one" : Apologetic history, 1527-1561 -- "Those Indians ...should not be deprived of freedom" : Sublimis Deus, Pope Paul III, 1537 -- "Good-bye, Aristotle!" In defense of the Indians, 1550-1552 -- "Every nation ...has the right to defend itself" : In defense of the Indians, 1550-1552 -- "Liberty is an innate right of all human beings" : On royal power, ca. 1560s -- "Infidels rightly have ownership of their goods" : Certain principles, 1552 -- "The same right" : On the treasures of Peru, 1563 -- "War of this kind is unjust" : The only way of attracting all peoples to the true religion, ca. 1534 -- "Those peoples had never attacked, nor committed injury, nor war" : History of the Indies, ca. 1550-1560 -- "Every single person has to give consent" : On the treasures of Peru, 1563 -- "It is not my business to pass judgment on those outside" : In defense of the Indians, 1550-1552 -- "Help to the oppressed against their oppressors" : On the treasures of Peru, 1563 -- "Those Indians whose rights I have defended till my death" : Petition to His Holiness Pope Pius V, 1566.

"This comprehensive text provides a detailed narrative history of each of the nations of Latin America, from Chile and Argentina in the South to Mexico and Cuba in the north. It begins with the Wars of Independence in the early nineteenth century and stretches to the democratic turn in the twenty-first. It interprets major themes, such as the age of caudillos in the nineteenth century, populism in the twentieth century, and globalization in the twenty-first century. These themes, along with others such as ethnic strife, social revolutions, and militarism, transcend borders and show the unity of the Latin America experience, even as the text draws out the diversity that marks the region's geography, peoples, and cultures."--Provided by publisher