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The Chile reader: history, culture, politics
Publisher
Duke University Press
Publication Date
2014.
Language
English
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Contributors
Hutchison, Elizabeth Q. editor
Klubock, Thomas Miller editor
Milanich, Nara B.,1972- editor
Winn, Peter editor
Klubock, Thomas Miller editor
Milanich, Nara B.,1972- editor
Winn, Peter editor
ISBN
9780822353607
9780822353461
9780822353461
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No better land in the whole wide world / Pedro de Valdivia --
The poetry of place / Gabriela Mistral --
Chile's "crazy geography" / Benjamín Subercaseaux --
Catastrophe and national character / Rolando Mellafe --
Deforestation in Chile : an early report / Claudio Gay --
Catastrophe in Sewell / Pablo Neruda --
A call to conservationism in Chile / Rafael Elizalde MacClure --
In defense of the forests / Ricardo Carrere --
Pollution and politics in greater Santiago / Saar Van Hauwermeiren --
The Inca meet the Mapuche / Garcilaso de la Vega, Comentarios Reales --
A conquistador pleads his case / Pedro de Valdivia, Letter to the King --
Exalting the noble savage / Alonso de Ercilla, La Araucana --
Debating Indian slavery / Melchor Calderón, Diego de Rosales --
To sell, give, donate, trade, or exchange / Certification of Indian Enslavement, 1657 --
Portrait of late Colonial Santiago / Vicente Carvallo y Goyeneche --
From war to diplomacy / The Summit of Tapihue --
The Insolence of peons / Mine owners of Copiapó --
A revolutionary journalist / Camilo Henríquez, Fundamental notions of the rights of peoples --
An Englishwoman observes the new nation / Maria Graham, Journal of a residence in Chile in 1822 --
The authoritarian republic / Diego Portales --
A political catechism / Francisco Bilbao, The American Gospel --
A literature of its own / Alberto Blest Gana, Martín Rivas --
The university and the nation / Andrés Bello, address delivered at the inauguration of the University of Chile --
A Polish scientist among the Mapuche / Ignacio Domeyko, Araucanía and its People --
German immigrants in the South / Vicente Pérez Rosales, Times gone --
A peculiar race of men : gold, copper, and sweat / Charles Darwin, Beagle Diary --
How to run an hacienda / José Manuel Balmaceda, The landowner's handbook --
A Franco-Chilean in the Gold Rush / Pedro Isidoro Combet, Memories of California --
The worst misery --
Letters to the Santiago orphanage --
A race of vagabonds --
Augusto Orrego Luco, the social question --
Race, nation, and the "roto chileno" / Nicolás Palacios --
The war of the Pacific, 1879-1893 / Alejandro Fierro --
The pacification of the Araucanía / Pascual Coña --
Gallery : Chile and its "others" --
Balmaceda and the civil war of 1891 / José Manuel Balmaceda, Arturo Alessandri --
The politics of reform / the manifesto of the Democratic party to the Chilean people, 1888 --
The Catholic Church and the social question / 1893 pastoral letter of Archbishop Mariano Casanova --
Workers' movements and the birth of the Chilean left / Luis Emilio Recabarren --
Nitrate workers and state violence : the massacre at Escuela Santa María de Iquique / Elias Lafertte --
Women, work, and labor politics / Esther Valdés de Díaz --
The Lion of Tarapacá / Arturo Alessandri --
The decay of Chile's parliamentary republic / Alberto Edwards --
Military intervention and the end of the parliamentary republic / 1924 military coup pronunciamiento --
Poetic creationism / Vicente Huidobro --
Mother of Chile and poet of Chilenidad / Gabriela Mistral.
Industrialization and Chile's Arab immigrants : interview with Juan Yarur and the Arab community in Chile --
Social change and the crisis of the Catholic Church / Alberto Hurtado, "Is Chile a Catholic Country?" --
I told myself I must find work, I cannot continue here : interview with Elba Bravo, domestic service activist --
Fundamental theoretical principles of the Socialist Party / The Chilean Socialist Party, 1933 --
Chile's public health crisis / Salvador Allende --
The Popular Front / Pedro Aguirre Cerda --
Rural workers, landowners, and the politics of compromise / League of Poor Campesinos of Las Cabras, Sociedad Nacional de Agricultura --
Chile's "frustrated development" / Aníbal Pinto --
The Movement for the Emancipation of Chilean Women (MEMCH) : interview with Elena Caffarena --
Autobiography and poems / Pablo Neruda --
Miners' strikes and the demise of the Popular Front / U.S. State Department cables --
Our constitution and our laws contain iniquitous precepts / Elena Caffarena --
Rural-urban migration and the founding of a Santiago shantytown / Juan Lemuñir --
Klein-Sacks : Chile's first experiment with neo-liberalism (image) --
Between capitalism and communism / Eduardo Frei, Mission of Social Christianity in Chile --
Property and production : a brochure promoting Christian Democracy's agrarian reform --
The Christian left / Jacques Chonchol, Julio Silva Solar, Toward a Communitarian World --
The new song movement : interview with Inti-Illimani --
Lyrics of the new song movement / Violeta Parra , Victor Jara --
Gallery : The election of 1970 : the United States and the election of Salvador Allende / de-classified U.S. government documents --
A Mapuche land takeover / Peasants and landowners of Rucalán --
We take the factory / Workers at the Yarur Cotton Mill --
Informing the people / President Salvador Allende Gossens --
Women's power against Allende : interview with Carmen Saenz --
So that Chile can renew its march forward / Chilean Business and Professional Associations' --
The Demands of the people / Movement of the Revolutionary Left --
A treasonous history / A group of retired generals and admirals --
United States policy and covert action against Allende / Church Committee, 1975 --
Everyone knows what is going to happen / Radomiro Tomic to General Carlos Prats --
These are my final words / President Salvador Allende Gossens --
The military takes Santiago / Peter Winn --
The new military regime justifies intervention / Government Junta of the Armed Forces and Carabineros of Chile --
Pinochet's caravan of death / Patricia Verdugo --
Women and torture / National Commission on Political Detention and Torture --
Transnationalization of terror : Operation Condor / US Federal Bureau of Investigations --
The 1980 Constitution / Jaime Guzmán --
Shantytown protest / The Pobladores speak --
The Chilean Women 's Movement / Julieta Kirkwood --
The kids of Barrio Alto / Alberto Fuguet --
Sexuality and soccer / Pedro Lemebel --
Dictatorship as revolution / Joaquín Lavín, Ernesto Tironi --
The whole world was watching / Observer Group of the Latin American Studies.
Justice "to the degree possible" / Patricio Aylwin Azócar --
The custody of the eyes / Diamela Eltit --
Legislating gender equality / Pilar Molina Armas --
Gallery : social movements in transition --
The credit-card citizen / Tomás Moulin, Chile Today : Anatomy of a Myth --
Chile's greatest addition to the Spanish language / John Brennan, Alvaro Taboada --
I never looked for power / Augusto Pinochet Ugarte --
Historians critique Pinochet's "Anti-history" / eleven Chilean historians (also signed 73 other scholars) --
The Mapuche nation and the Chilean nation / Elicura Chihuailaf --
Growth with equity / Alejandro Foxley --
The politics of concertación / Alfredo Jocelyn-Holt --
"Chile : a Catholic country?" / Antonio Delfau, S.J. --
"To never again live it, to never again deny it" / President Ricardo Lagos, The Valech report --
The Chilean army after Pinochet / Army General and Commander in Chief Juan Emilio Cheyre Espinosa --
La Presidenta de Chile, President Michelle Bachelet, 2006- 2010 --
Gallery : bicentennial embraces.
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