The Xenophile Historian

Contents

(and malcontents)

	Chapter 1: Ancient (Latin) America (Before 1492)
	Chapter 2: The Age of the Conquistadors (1492 to 1650)
	Chapter 3: A New World No More (1650 to 1830)
	Chapter 4: Post-Colonial Blues (1830 to 1889)

Chapter 1: Ancient America

Before 1492

Part I

	Introduction
	The First Americans
	Before the First Horizon
	The Mysterious Olmecs
	The Chavin Culture: Peru's Great Leap Forward
	The Paracas: Dream Weavers
	The Zapotecs
	Rise of the Maya
	Teotihuacan, the City That History Forgot

Part II

	The Moche: Masters of Clay
	The Nazca: Lines In the Desert
	The Magnificent Maya: The Early Classic Era
	The Magnificent Maya: The Late Classic Era
	Palenque
	Copán
	Tikal and Calakmul
	The Collapse of the Teotihuacan and Maya Civilizations
	Tribes of the Caribbean
	The People of El Dorado
	Tiahuanaco, the City of the Altiplano
	The Huari Empire

Part III

	The Toltec Middlemen
	Yucatan: The Maya Epilogue
	The Mixtecs
	Forerunners of the Incas
	The Tepanecs and the Rise of the Aztecs
	The Inca Conquests
	Tahuantinsuyu
	The Bloody Splendor of the Aztecs
	On the Threshold

Chapter 2: The Age of the Conquistadors

1492 to 1650

Part I

	Christopher Columbus
	Population At First Contact
	The Conquests of Ahuitzotl and Moctezuma II
	Huayna Capac
	From Hispaniola to Mexico, and the Discovery of Brazil
	"Pioneers Take the Arrows"
	The Conquest of New Spain
	The Conquest of Central America and Western Mexico
	The Conquest of Peru, Act 1
	The Conquest of Peru, Act 2

Part II

	The Conquest of Peru, Act 3
	Colonizing Paraguay
	Filling In the Gaps
	Miners, Traders and Raiders
	The Conquest of Peru, Act 4
	The El Dorado Dream
	The Church Comes to Latin America
	The Colonization of Brazil
	French and English Inroads in the Caribbean
	Spain Comes To the End Of the Line
	Population Figures After the Conquest, and the Columbian Exchange

Chapter 3: A New World No More

1650 to 1830

Part I

	A Hollow Empire
	The Jesuit Experiment
	Caribbean Contention, Part 1
	The Golden Age of Piracy
	Famous Pirates
	The Darien Scheme
	Caribbean Contention, Part 2
	The Settlement of Mexico's Northern Frontier
	The Seven Years War and the American Revolution In Latin America

Part II

	Growing Trouble between Spain And Her Colonies
	Brazil: Movement Inland, and to the South
	The Haitian Revolution
	The Liberation of Latin America Begins
	Bolivar and San Martin
	The Haitian Monarchy

Part III

	Bolivar's Campaigns
	Early Paraguay: Marxism Before Marx
	Over the Andes
	Gran Colombia
	The First Mexican Empire
	Brazil: Independent By Accident
	All Roads End At Ayacucho
	The Falklands Dispute Begins
	The Shattered Dream

Chapter 4: Post-Colonial Blues

1830 to 1889

Part I

	The Struggle to Build New States
	Enter the Caudillo
	Central America: Out of One, Many
	Mexico: Santa Anna's Misadventures
	Argentina: The Rise and Fall of Rosas
	Chile: The Conservative Era
	Peru and Bolivia: Disorder on the Borders
	Paraguay: El Excelentísimo
	Uruguay: Caught in the Crossfire
	Mexico: The Incredible Shrinking Country

Part II

	New Granada
	The Reform War
	Nicaragua: The Filibuster
	Honduras and Costa Rica, Before they Became Banana Republics
	Venezuela: The Barracks
	Ecuador: The First Generation
	The Franco-Mexican War
	Argentina Pulls Itself Together
	Chile: The Liberal Era
	The War of the Triple Alliance
	Cuba and Puerto Rico: The Last Spanish Colonies

Part III

	Haiti and the Dominican Republic: Experiments in Bad Government
	Ecuador: The Monastery
	A Golden Age Begins for Argentina and Uruguay
	Guatemala Takes a Step Back
	Mexico: The Porfiriato
	The War of the Pacific
	Colombia: The University
	Império Brasileiro (The Brazilian Empire)
	Breaking the Rubber Monopoly