Part I : Foregrounds and backgrounds -- Chapter 1
This land, this people --
Panorama --
The land --
The people --
Interlude -- -- Chapter 2
The Indian background --
The Indian, the first American --
The Maya --
The Aztecs of Mexico --
The empire of the Incas -- -- Chapter 3
The Iberian background --
Before the Romans --
The Romans and the Visigoths, 202 B.C.-A.D. 711 --
Moslem Iberia, 711-1031 --
The reconquest and the creation of the Spanish nation, 1031-1516 --
The golden age of Spain --
Spain's legacy to America --
Portugal -- -- Chapter 4
The African background --
The continent of Africa --
The slave trade --
What the Negro brought to the New World -- -- Part II : The Iberians in the New World -- Chaper 5
Discovery and conquest --
Christopher Columbus and the conquest of the Caribbean world --
The conquest of Mexico --
Magellan proves that the world is round --
The conquest of Peru --
The conquest of Chile --
Spanish exploration in the Amazon basin --
The Spanish main --
The lands of the Rio de la Plata --
Portugal stakes out her claim -- -- Chapter 6
Introducing the Spanish colonial period -- -- Chapter 7
Spain's governemtn in America : Kings, viceroys, and other important people --
The hierarchy of authority in Spain --
Royal governemnt in America -- -- Chapter 8
The church in Spanish America --
Some notable friars --
The Inquisition in America --
The missions --
The Jesuits --
The church at the end of the colonial period -- -- Chapter 9
Man, his land, and his labor in Spanish America -- -- Chapter 10
The getting and the spending : the economic life of Spanish America --
Royal control of the Spanish American economy --
The development of Spanish American economy -- -- Chapter 11
The formation of Spanish American culture --
Schooling in Spanish America --
The makers of books --
Drama, music and the fine arts -- -- Chapter 12 : The Portuguese empire in Brazil
The beginnings of Brazil, 1500-80 --
The Spanish interlude, 1580-1640 --
Other competitors -- English, French and Dutch --
Portuguese colonial government, 1640-1808 --
The church in Brazil --
The peopling of the land --
Products of forest, farm and mine --
Social and cultural patterns --
Brazil in 1800 -- -- Part III
The New World breaks with the old -- -- Chapter 13
The tumult of revolution --
Who revolted and why --
The precursors of revolution -- -- Chapter 14
Mexico's war for independence -- -- Chapter 15
The independence of Spanish South America --
Simon Bolivar's campaigns in the north --
San Martin and the liberation of the far south --
The meeting of the liberators --
The final act -- -- Chapter 16
The independence of Brazil -- -- Chapter 17
From war to peace -- -- Part IV
Mexico -- -- Chapter 18
Introducing Mexico -- -- Chapter 19
The era of Santa Anna, 1821-55 --
Agustin de Iturbide --
The nation gets underway --
The liberal interlude, 1832-35 --
Texas --
Centralism and dictatorship, 1835-35 --
War and the aftermath, 1845-55 -- -- Chapter 20
The era of Benito Juarez, 1855-76 --
La reforma --
Benito Juarez --
Civil war, 1858-60 --
The French intervention, 1862-67 --
The last days of la reforma, 1867-76 -- -- Chapter 21
The era of Porfirio Diaz, 1876-1910 --
The allies of the dictator --
Success and failure -- the Diaz balance sheet --
THe fall of Porfirio Diaz -- -- Chapter 22
Revolution, 1910-20 --
Francisco I. Madero --
Victoriano Huerta --
Venustiano Carranza -- -- Chapter 23
Reconstruction : the era of Obregon, Calles and Cardenas, 1920-40 --
Alvaro Obregon, 1920-24 --
Calles and his henchmen, 1924-34 --
Lazaro Cardenas, 1934-40 -- -- Chapter 24
Mexico turns to the richt, 1940 --
Avila Camacho and World War II, 1940-46 --
Miguel Aleman, 1946-52 --
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, 1952-58 --
Adolfo Lopez Mateos, 1958-64 --
Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, 1964- --
Appraisal : 1967 -- -- Part V
The Caribbean and Central America -- -- Chapter 25
Cuba --
Spain's "Ever faithful isle" --
American military rule, 1898-1902 --
The republic under the Platt amendment, 1902-34 --
Fulgencio Batista, 1934-59 --
Revolution --
Fidel Castro : the first phases --
Cuba, the United States and sugar --
Fidel Castro : the story continues --
Where goes Cuba? some observations in 1967 -- -- Chapter 26
Haiti --
Haiti's beginnings, 1804-43 --
The years of tumult, 1843-1915 --
The caste system --
Haiti under American occupation, 1915-34 --
Independent Haiti, 1934- --
Haiti's prospects -- -- Chapter 27
The Dominican republic --
The winning of freedom --
Confusion and tyranny, 1844-1916 --
American intervention and the aftermath, 1916-30 --
The era of Trujillo, 1930-61 --
The Dominican republic since Trujillo, 1961 --
Appraisal: 1967 -- -- Chapter 28
Central America and Panama --
The United provinces of Central America, 1821-38 --
The republics go their seperate ways --
Guatemala, 1838 --
Honduras, 1838 --
El Salvador, 1838- --
Nicaragua, 1838-1909 --
Nicaragua and American intervention, 1909-33 --
Nicaragua : the Somoza dynasty, 1933 --
Costa Rica, 1838 --
Panama, 1903 -- -- Part VI
The lands of the Spanish main -- -- Chapter 29
Venezuela --
Jose Antonio Paez --
Antonio Guzman Blanco, 1870-88 --
Cipriano Castro, 1899-1908 --
Juan Vicente Gomez, 1908-35 --
The movement toward democracy, 1935-48 --
The army takes over, 1948-58 --
Romulo Betancourt, 1959-64 --
Raul Leoni, 1964- --
Venezuela in 1967 -- -- Chapter 30
Colombia's clashing ideas --
The foundation of the nation, 1819-42 --
Political struggles, 1840-80 --
Rafael Nunez and the constitution of 1886 --
The loss of Panama, 1903 --
Conservative rule, 1904-30 --
The liberals, 1930-46 --
The conservatice restoration, 1946-57 --
The national front, 1958 --
Colombia : hopes and promises -- -- Part VII
The Indian lands of the Andes -- -- Chapter 31
Ecuador --
The initial confusion, 1830-60 --
The age of Garcia Moreno : the throcratic state, 1860-95 --
The rule of the liberals, 1895-1944 --
1944 and after --
Ecuador: its assets, promises and prospects -- -- Chapter 32
Peru --
Foreign liberators and domestic tyrants, 1822-45 --
The age of Guano and its aftermath, 1841-1900 --
Twentieth century Peru --
Peru : prospects and promises -- -- Chapter 33
Bolivia --
The birth of a nation, 1825-29 --
Nineteenth century caudillos --
Early-tewntieth-century Bolivia --
The national revolution, 1952-64 --
The second republic, 1964- --
Bolivia's prospects
Part VIII
Chile -- -- Chapter 34
Chile : the formative years, 1810-91 --
Colony to free republic, 1810-17 --
Dictatorship and anarchy, 1817-30 --
The domination of the conservatives, 1830-61 --
From autocracy to confusion, 1861-91 -- -- Chapter 35
Chile's evolution since 1891 --
The tumult of parliamentary tule, 1891-1920 --
The restoration of presidental power, 1920-38 --
The popular front, 1938-42 --
Juan Antonio Rios and World War II, 1942-46 --
Chile's postwar record, 1946-58 --
Jorge Alessandri, 1958-64 --
The election of 1964 : revolution by ballot --
Eduardo Frei Montalva, 1964- --
Chile : problems and promises -- -- Part IX
The republics of the Rio de la Plata -- -- Chapter 36
Argentina : land and people --
Gaughos and caudillos --
Bernardino Rivadavia -- -- Chapter 37
Federalists and unitarios --
Interlude, 1832-35 --
The return of Rosas, 1835 --
Rosas's domestic policies --
Rosas and foreign powers --
The last years of Rosas -- -- Chapter 39
Creation of the Argentine nation, 1852-90 --
Justo Jose de Urquiza and the secession of Bueno Aires --
Bartolome Mitre, 1862-68 --
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, 1868-74 --
Expansion and convulsion, 1874-90 -- -- Chapter 40
Argentina : the radicals, 1890-1930 --
The oligarchy in control, 1890-1910 --
The oligarchy yields to the radicals, 1910-30 -- -- Chapter 41
Argentina : the old refime returns, 1930-43 --
Jose F. Uriburu, 1930-32 --
Agustin P. Justo, 1932-38