The Encyclopedia of Early Modern Latin America (1820s to 1900) covers the history and culture of Central America, South America, and the Caribbean, examining Latin America's search for its own identity from the middle of the 19th century to the start of the 20th.

Table of Contents

• Editors and Contributors
• Preface to Latin American History and Culture
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction to Encyclopedia of Early Modern Latin America (1820s to 1900)
• Time Line (Nineteenth Century)
• Entries
• A
• abolition of slavery in Brazil
• Accessory Transit Company
• Acre Province
• agriculture
• Alamán, Lucas
• Alberdi, Juan Bautista
• Alencar, José de
• Altamirano, Ignacio
• Arce, Manuel José
• architecture
• Argentina
• Argentine Constitution of 1819
• Argentine Constitution of 1853
• “Ariel”
• art
• Aycinena Piñol, Juan José de
• B
• Báez, Buenaventura
• Balmaceda, José Manuel
• Banda Oriental
• Barreda, Gabino
• Barrios, Gerardo
• Barrios, Justo Rufino
• Belize
• Bello, Andrés
• Betances, Ramón Emeterio
• Blanco Party
• Bogotá
• Bolivarian Constitution
• Bolivia
• Bolivian Syndicate
• Boyer, Jean-Pierre
• Brazil
• Brazilian Anti-Slavery Society
• Brazilian Constitution of 1824
• Brazilian Constitution of 1891
• C
• Caribbean, British
• Buenos Aires
• cacao
• Cáceres, Andrés Avelino
• Calderón de la Barca, Fanny
• candomblé
• Canudos
• Caracas
• Carrera, Rafael
• Caste War of the Yucatán
• Castilla, Ramón
• Castro, Cipriano
• Catholic Church in Latin America, 1820s to 1900
• caudillos and caudillismo
• Central America, 1820s to 1900
• centralism in Latin America, 1820s to 1900
• Céspedes, Carlos Manuel de
• Charter of Slavery
• Chile, 1820s to 1900
• Chile-Peru War of 1836
• Chilean Civil War, 1891
• Chilean Constitution of 1828
• Chilean Constitution of 1833
• Christophe, Henri
• Cibao, 1820s to 1900
• científicos
• Cinco de Mayo
• Cisplatine War
• Civilista Party
• Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
• clothing in Latin America, 1820s to 1900
• Cobija, 1820s to 1900
• coca
• Code Rural
• coffee in Latin America, 1820s to 1900
• Colombia, 1820s to 1900
• Colombian Constitution of 1853
• Colombian Constitution of 1886
• Colorado Party of Paraguay
• Colorado Party of Uruguay
• Comité Revolucionario de Puerto Rico
• Comonfort, Ignacio
• comparative advantage
• Conquest of the Desert
• conservatism in Latin America
• Conservative Party (Brazil)
• Conservative Party (Chile)
• Conservative Party (Colombia)
• Conservative Party (Mexico)
• Conservative Party (Venezuela)
• Constant, Benjamin
• constitutional development in Peru, 1820s to 1900
• constitutional development in Venezuela, 1820s to 1900
• copper mining in Latin America, 1820s to 1900
• Costa Rica, 1820s to 1900
• cotton in Latin America, 1820s to 1900
• crime and punishment in Latin America, 1800s to 1920
• Cuba, 1820s to 1900
• D
• democracy in Latin America, 1820s to 1900
• Deodoro da Fonseca, Manuel
• Dessalines, Jean-Jacques
• Díaz, Porfirio
• Domingue, Michel
• Dominican Republic, 1820s to 1900
• Dominican Republic Constitution of 1844
• draconianos
• drugs in Latin America, 1820s to 1900
• Caribbean, Dutch
• E
• Echeverría, Esteban
• economy of Latin America, 1820s to 1900
• Ecuador, 1820s to 1900
• education in Latin America, 1820s to 1900
• Egaña, Mariano
• ejido
• El Salvador, 1820s to 1900
• Brazil, Empire of
• Encilhamento
• estancia in Latin America, 1820s to 1900
• F
• family in Latin America, 1820s to 1900
• fazenda/fazendeiro in Latin America, 1820s to 1900
• Federal War
• federales
• federalism in Latin America, 1820s to 1900
• fermage
• Fernández de Lizardi, José Joaquín
• Firmin, Anténor
• Flores, Juan José
• food in Latin America, 1820s to 1900
• Francia, José Gaspar Rodríguez de
• Frelinghuysen-Zavala Treaty
• Caribbean, French
• French Guiana, 1820s to 1900
• French intervention
• fuero during the 19th century
• G
• Gadsden Purchase
• Gálvez, José Felipe Mariano
• Gamarra, Agustín
• García Moreno, Gabriel
• gauchos in Latin America, 1820s to 1900
• Geffrard, Fabre-Nicholas
• gold in Latin America, 1820s to 1900
• gólgotas
• Gómez Farías, Valentín
• Gómez, Máximo
• González, Manuel
• González Prada, Manuel
• Gran Colombia
• Grau Seminario, Miguel
• Greytown Affair
• Grito de Ipiranga
• Grito de Lares
• Grito de Yara
• guano age
• Guardia Gutiérrez, Tomás Miguel
• Guatemala, 1820s to 1900
• Guayaquil, 1820s to 1900
• Guerra Grande
• Guerrero, Vicente
• Guyana, 1820s to 1900
• Guzmán Blanco, Antonio
• H
• haciendas in Latin America, 1820s to 1900
• Haiti, 1820s to 1900
• Haitian Constitution of 1805
• Haitian Constitution of 1843
• Haitian occupation of Santo Domingo
• Havana, 1820s to 1900
• Heureaux, Ulises
• Hise, Elijah
• Honduras, 1820s to 1900
• I
• industrialization in Latin America, 1820s to 1900
• Iturbide, Agustín de
• J
• Janvier, Louis-Joseph
• Juárez, Benito
• Junta de Información
• K
• Keith, Minor Cooper
• “Borinqueña, La”
• La Democracia
• L
• La Mazorca
• La Reforma
• La Trinitaria
• labor in Latin America, 1820s to 1900
• Ladder Conspiracy
• laissez-faire in Latin America, 1820s to 1900
• Lastarria, José Victorino
• latifundio
• Latin American modernism
• Lavalleja, Juan Antonio
• Law of the Free Womb
• Lerdo de Tejada, Miguel
• Lerdo de Tejada, Sebastián
• Letelier Madariaga, Valentín
• Liberal Conservative Party (Puerto Rico)
• liberal oligarchy
• Liberal Party (Brazil)
• Liberal Party (Chile)
• Liberal Party (Colombia)
• Liberal Party (Mexico)
• Liberal Party (Venezuela)
• Liberal Reformist Party
• Liberal Revolution
• liberalism in Latin America, 1820s to 1900
• Lima, 1820s to 1900
• literature in Latin America, 1820s to 1900
• Livingston Codes
• López, Carlos Antonio
• Luperón, Gregorio
• Lynch, Eliza Alicia
• M
• Maceo, Antonio
• Machado de Assis, Joaquim Maria
• maize in Latin America, 1820s to 1900
• Manifest Destiny
• Martí, José
• Martín Fierro
• Matto de Turner, Clorinda
• medicine in Latin America, 1820s to 1900
• Melgarejo, Mariano
• Mexican Constitution of 1824
• Mexican Constitution of 1857
• Mexico, 1820s to 1900
• Mexico City, 1820s to 1900
• migration in Latin America, 1820s to 1900
• military in Latin America, 1820s to 1900
• mining in Latin America, 1820s to 1900
• Mitre, Bartolomé
• Monroe Doctrine
• Montalvo, Juan
• Montt, Jorge
• Morais, Prudente de
• Morazán, Francisco
• Moret Law
• Mosquito Coast
• music in Latin America, 1820s to 1900
• N
• Nabuco, Joaquim
• Native Americans in Latin America, 1820s to 1900
• Nicaragua, 1820s to 1900
• Núñez, Rafael
• O
• occupation of the Araucania
• Old Republic of Brazil
• Oribe, Manuel
• Our Lady of Guadalupe
• P
• Páez, José Antonio
• Pampas
• Panama, 1820s to 1900
• Panama Congress
• Panama Railroad
• Panamanian independence
• Paraguay, 1820s to 1900
• Pardo, Manuel
• Pastry War
• Pedro I
• Pedro II
• Peru, 1820s to 1900
• Peru-Bolivia Confederation
• Peruvian Corporation
• Pétion, Alexandre Sabès
• Piérola, Nicolás de
• The Pilgrimage of Bayoán
• Plácido
• Plan de Casa Mata
• Porfiriato dictatorship in Mexico
• Portales, Diego
• positivism in Latin America, 1820s to 1900
• Progressive Party (Ecuador)
• Puebla, 1820s to 1900
• Puerto Rico, 1820s to 1900
• Q
• Quiroga, Juan Facundo
• Quito, 1820s to 1900
• Quito-Guayaquil Railroad
• R
• Regency (Brazil)
• religion in Latin America, 1820s to 1900
• Rerum Novarum and Latin America
• Revolution of 1889
• Revolution of Ayutla
• Rio de Janeiro, 1820s to 1900
• Rivadavia, Bernardino
• Rivera, José Fructuoso
• Rivière-Hérard, Charles
• Roca, Julio Argentino
• Rocafuerte, Vicente
• romanticism in Latin America, 1820s to 1900
• Rosario Mining Company
• Rosas, Juan Manuel de
• Royal Decree of Grace
• rurales
• S
• Saco, José Antonio
• Saget, Nissage
• saladeros
• Salcedo, José Antonio
• Salomon, Lysius
• Santa Anna, Antonio López de
• Santa Cruz, Andrés de
• Santana, Pedro
• Santander, Francisco de Paula
• Santeria
• Santiago de Chile, 1820s to 1900
• Santo Domingo, 1820s to 1900
• São Paulo, 1820s to 1900
• Sarmiento, Domingo Faustino
• Second Republic of the Dominican Republic
• sexuality in Latin America, 1820s to 1900
• Sierra, Justo
• Siete Leyes
• silver in Latin America, 1820s to 1900
• slavery in Latin America, 1820s to 1900
• The Slum
• social Darwinism in Latin America
• Solano López, Francisco
• Soto, Marco Aurelio
• Soulouque, Faustin-élie
• Spanish-American War
• sports and recreation in Latin America, 1820s to 1900
• Squier, Ephraim George
• Stephens, John Lloyd
• Sucre, Antonio José de
• sugar in Latin America, 1820s to 1900
• Suriname, 1820s to 1900
• Syllabus of Errors and Latin America
• T
• Ten Years’ War
• Terrazas family
• Texas Revolution
• Thirty-three Immortals
• tobacco in Latin America, 1820s to 1900
• trade in Latin America, 1820s to 1900
• transisthmian interests in Latin America
• transportation in Latin America, 1820s to 1900
• Ancón, Treaty of
• Treaty of Zanjón
• U
• U.S. Civil War and Central America
• U.S.-Mexican War
• unitarios
• United Provinces of Central America
• University of Buenos Aires, 1821 to 1900
• University of Chile, 1843 to 1900
• Uribe Uribe, Rafael
• Urquiza, Justo José de
• Uruguay, 1820s to 1900
• Uruguayan Constitution of 1830
• V
• Valparaiso
• Venezuela, 1820s to 1900
• Victoria, Guadalupe
• Vieques Island, 1820s to 1900
• voodoo
• W
• Walker, William
• War of Reform
• War of Restoration
• War of the Farrapos
• War of the Pacific
• War of the Thousand Days
• War of the Triple Alliance
• wheat in Latin America, 1820s to 1900
• women in Latin America, 1820s to 1900
• Support Materials
• Documents
• Monroe Doctrine
• “Essay on Public Education” (excerpts)
• On Great Britain's Formal Recognition of Chile and Peru
• Texas Campaign (excerpt)
• Testimony on the Morant Bay Rebellion
• Arrests and Conspiracy in Paraguay (excerpts)
• The Curupira
• “The Story of Coffee”
• Letter to Gonzalo Quesada (excerpt)
• The Gaucho at Home
• Glossary
• Suggested Readings