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Global Connections of 19th Century Latin America

Professor Bryan Mccann takes the task of producing a new survey history textbook of Modern Latin America in collaboration with other prestigious historians. Some of the topics involved in this review are:

• Argentina and Chile: path to independence
• Brazil´s path to independence
• Brazil under Pedro II
• Chile and Diego Portales
• The British in Argentina and Brazil (1830s-1880s)
• War of the Triple Alliance
• Sugar and Environment
• Slave Trade in Brazil
• Abolition and Creation of Old
• Republic in Brazil
• Social Banditry in Brazil
• Comparative Ranching, Brazil and Argentina

Project Director

Bryan Mccann

Professor of History

Profile

Publications

Books

• Latin America in the World, Oxford University Press, forthcoming, estimated publication date 2017

Research Network

• Peter Henderson of University of Minnesota-Mankato
• Virginia Garrard-Burnett of University of Texas-Austin

Research Team

Research Assistants

• Katherine Mann, MA student at the Center for Latin American Studies