The Chile reader: history, culture, politics

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 -- "Catastro...

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Weitere Verfasser: Hutchison, Elizabeth Q. (MitwirkendeR), Klubock, Thomas Miller (MitwirkendeR), Milanich, Nara B. 1972- (MitwirkendeR), Winn, Peter (MitwirkendeR)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Durham Duke University Press 2013
Schriftenreihe:Latin America readers
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Zusammenfassung: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 and 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 by -- "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 and 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 --
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 629 pages)
ISBN:9780822395836
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