Latin America at the crossroads : domination, crisis, popular movements, and political alternatives / Roberto Regalado.

Translation of: América Latina entre siglos

Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-263).

Part One: Reform or revolution? : The cycles of capitalist depvelopment; The state political power, and capitalist accumulation between the 16th and 19th centuries; Bourgeois democracy and political parties; The origins of the socialist movement; Reform and revolution to the 1970s; US imperialism's counteroffensive; Consequences of the collapse of the Soviet Union; Neoliberalism in the United States and Western Europe; "Post-Neoliberal" social democracy and the doctrines of the third way and global progress.--- Part Two: Domination, crisis, and popular resistance in Latin America; The rise of capitalism in Latin America; From Colonialism to Neocolonialism; Pan-Americanism; Developmentalism and its consequences; Revolution and counterrevolution in the 1960s; The impact of the Nixon goverment and the vacillations of the Carter administration; Ronald Reagns strategy of force; Latin America between the centuries; Cocluding remarks.