4B—History of Latin America
Liberals and Conservatives
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I. Liberals and Conservatives
- definitions
- Spanish America: conservative to 1850
II. The Liberal resurgence, 1850-1875
- economic and social
- anti-clerical
- foreign investment; guano (Peru)
- rural vs. urban
III. Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (Argentina, 1864-70)
- The Life of Facundo, or Civilization and Barbarism (1845)
- Indian wars; "gobernar es poblar"; education
III. Benito Juárez (Mexico, 1861-64, 1867-72)
- loss of Texas (1836), Mexican-American War (1848)
- Zapotec; Oaxaca
- La Reforma; Ley Juárez (1855); Ley Lerdo (1856)
- Maxilimilian
(1862-65)