A brief history of Central America / [electronic resource]
Héctor Pérez-Brignoli ; translated by Ricardo B. Sawrey A. and Susana Stettri de Sawrey.
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c1989.
- xvi, 223 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Translation of: Breve historia de Centroamérica. Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 201-209.
Land and the people: Environmental conditions -- Peripheral and rural world -- Regional unity and diversity -- Panama -- Belize -- Colonial past (1520-1821): Century of conquest -- Seventeenth-century depression -- Enlightenment -- In search of progress: Independence and the formation of nation-states in the nineteenth century: Failure of the Central American Confederation -- Conservative restoration and foreign threats -- Liberal reforms: New social order -- State, society, nation -- Impoverishing growth (1900-1945): Export economies -- El Senor Presidente: Theory and practice of liberal politics -- Social change -- Big neighbor, good stick -- Growing inequalities (1945-1980): Reform movements in perspective -- Economic change: Industrialization and the Central American common market -- Politics and society: Crisis of the liberal order -- Present crisis (1980-1987) : Overview -- Disparities among the nations -- Uncertain future.