Showing posts with label South American history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label South American history. Show all posts
Monday, September 1, 2025

The Latin American wars of independence were followed by … more wars?

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The Napoleonic Wars sparked some  serious wars of independence  throughout  Latin America . One portion of  Spanish America  after another ...
Sunday, January 19, 2025

How much was Latin America involved in the World Wars?

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Anecdote about the European blockade of Venezuela, in the early twentieth century In 1902, three European nations imposed a  naval blockade...
Thursday, September 7, 2023

A review of Boris Fausto’s “A Concise History of Brazil”

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Note: The edition that I’m reviewing here was expanded by Boris Fausto’s son Sergio Fausto, to bring it up to date. The most populous countr...
Friday, November 26, 2021

A review of PBS’s “Native America”

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“An act to provide for an exchange of lands with the Indians residing in any of the states or territories, and for their removal west of the...
Thursday, September 16, 2021

A review of PBS’s “Black in Latin America”

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The trans-Atlantic slave trade had massive effects on  Latin America , and not just the future United States . Because of this, there are s...
Monday, December 2, 2019

Forgotten battlegrounds of the Cold War: Latin America

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If the Cold War were a chess game, Latin Americans were often the pawns … Long before the  Cold War  began, American president James Mo...
Monday, May 2, 2016

Latin America became independent because of Napoleonic Wars – (well, partially)

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" ... the American continents , by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be ...