Tulio Halperín Donghi is Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. John Charles Chasteen is Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

The Cr1s1s of Independence 18101825 42

HI The Early Nat1onal Per1od 18251850 74

Matur1ty of the Neocolon1al Order 131

"If Halperín's book owes its interpretive power and revisionist insights to the perspective and ideas of the economists concerned with the roots of Latin American underdevelopment, it tempers these insights with a historian's broad view of historical change, a wide familiarity with primary documents, and an unrivaled command over available secondary sources."—Charles Berquist, University of Washington, Seattle



"The translation of this classic work is long overdue. Halperín's remarkably skillful at interweaving threads of social, political, and economic history into a coherent whole in a way very few historians can."—Deborah Jakubs, Council on Latin American Studies