Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: revolutions, nations, and a new industrial world 1
5. Part I. hemispheric challenges
6. 1 The Americas in the Rise of Industrial Capitalism 25
7. 2 The Cádiz Liberal Revolution and Spanish American Independence 71
8. 3 Union, Capitalism, and Slavery in the “Rising Empire” of the United States 107
9. 4 From Slave Colony to Black Nation: Haiti’s Revolutionary Inversion 138
10. 5 Cuban Counterpoint: Colonialism and Continuity in the Atlantic World 175
11. 6 Atlantic Transformations and Brazil’s Imperial Independence 201
12. Part III. Spanish American inversions
13. 7 Becoming Mexico: The Conflictive Search for a North American Nation 233
14. 8 The Republic of Guatemala Stitching Together a New Country 278
15. 9 From One Patria, Two Nations in the Andean Heartland 316
16. 10 Indigenous Independence in Spanish South America 350
17. Epilogue Consolidating Divergence: The Americas and the World after 1850 376
18. Contributors 387
19. Index 389