Michael Monteón is professor of history at the University of California, San Diego.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Structure of an InterpretationChapter 1 The Long Nineteenth Century, Caudillaje, Power, and the PeopleCity and CountrysideLabor: Indian, Slave, and FreeThe Origins of National GovernmentsPax BritannicaChapter 2 Oligarchy and the Impact of New Wealth, 1880–1914The Newest CityBoulevards and StreetcarsThe Working ClassBuenos AiresPeasants and Landed PowerThe Challenges to OligarchyImperial ShiftChapter 3 Revolutions and Modernization, 1910–1955A Different DirectionChilangolandiaThe Mexican RevolutionPopulism and the OligarchiesPeronismoPopulist FrustrationsThe United States as a Hegemonic PowerThe Anticommunist CrusadeTwo Revolutionary Movements: Bolivia and GuatemalaChapter 4 Modern Life and Modern Conflicts, 1956–1985Santiago and the Pinochet DictatorshipThe Population ExplosionCauses and Consequences of the Population BoomThe Misinterpretations of Urban PovertyArts and CommunicationThe Cold War and Guerrilla DreamsThe Cuban RevolutionThe Brazilian ModelGuerrilla WarfareThe Dilemmas of DevelopmentChapter 5 Launched into the PresentSão Paulo, the Newest CityThe Collapse of Military CapitalismThe Shock TreatmentThe End of the Guerrilla LeftMexico RevisitedThe Latin-Americanization of the United StatesBlowbackMigrationConclusion: The Twenty-First Century Has BegunNotesBibliographyIndex

Michael Monteón is professor of history at the University of California, San Diego.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Structure of an InterpretationChapter 1 The Long Nineteenth Century, Caudillaje, Power, and the PeopleCity and CountrysideLabor: Indian, Slave, and FreeThe Origins of National GovernmentsPax BritannicaChapter 2 Oligarchy and the Impact of New Wealth, 1880–1914The Newest CityBoulevards and StreetcarsThe Working ClassBuenos AiresPeasants and Landed PowerThe Challenges to OligarchyImperial ShiftChapter 3 Revolutions and Modernization, 1910–1955A Different DirectionChilangolandiaThe Mexican RevolutionPopulism and the OligarchiesPeronismoPopulist FrustrationsThe United States as a Hegemonic PowerThe Anticommunist CrusadeTwo Revolutionary Movements: Bolivia and GuatemalaChapter 4 Modern Life and Modern Conflicts, 1956–1985Santiago and the Pinochet DictatorshipThe Population ExplosionCauses and Consequences of the Population BoomThe Misinterpretations of Urban PovertyArts and CommunicationThe Cold War and Guerrilla DreamsThe Cuban RevolutionThe Brazilian ModelGuerrilla WarfareThe Dilemmas of DevelopmentChapter 5 Launched into the PresentSão Paulo, the Newest CityThe Collapse of Military CapitalismThe Shock TreatmentThe End of the Guerrilla LeftMexico RevisitedThe Latin-Americanization of the United StatesBlowbackMigrationConclusion: The Twenty-First Century Has BegunNotesBibliographyIndex

Michael Monteón is professor of history at the University of California, San Diego.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Structure of an InterpretationChapter 1 The Long Nineteenth Century, Caudillaje, Power, and the PeopleCity and CountrysideLabor: Indian, Slave, and FreeThe Origins of National GovernmentsPax BritannicaChapter 2 Oligarchy and the Impact of New Wealth, 1880–1914The Newest CityBoulevards and StreetcarsThe Working ClassBuenos AiresPeasants and Landed PowerThe Challenges to OligarchyImperial ShiftChapter 3 Revolutions and Modernization, 1910–1955A Different DirectionChilangolandiaThe Mexican RevolutionPopulism and the OligarchiesPeronismoPopulist FrustrationsThe United States as a Hegemonic PowerThe Anticommunist CrusadeTwo Revolutionary Movements: Bolivia and GuatemalaChapter 4 Modern Life and Modern Conflicts, 1956–1985Santiago and the Pinochet DictatorshipThe Population ExplosionCauses and Consequences of the Population BoomThe Misinterpretations of Urban PovertyArts and CommunicationThe Cold War and Guerrilla DreamsThe Cuban RevolutionThe Brazilian ModelGuerrilla WarfareThe Dilemmas of DevelopmentChapter 5 Launched into the PresentSão Paulo, the Newest CityThe Collapse of Military CapitalismThe Shock TreatmentThe End of the Guerrilla LeftMexico RevisitedThe Latin-Americanization of the United StatesBlowbackMigrationConclusion: The Twenty-First Century Has BegunNotesBibliographyIndex