Chapter 10

The Triumph of Neocolonialism

The following material is designed to help you sort out the major themes and important information in our textbook Benjamin Keen, A History of Latin America, 5^th ed. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1996). You will be quizzed over this material in class. Also use this information as a study guide to prepare for the exam.

Learning Objectives

After you have read and studied Chapter 10, you should be able to:

1. Define neocolonialism.
2. Describe the economic foundations of the neocolonial order.
3. Describe the political superstructure that arose on those foundations.
4. Explain how neocolonialism influenced the history of Mexico, Argentina, Chile, and Brazil from about 1870 to 1914.

Chapter Summary

The chapter opens with a description of the changing European economic climate that led to the rise of the neocolonial order in Latin America. This provides the background for a discussion of the characteristic economic and political features of that order: monoculture, expansion of the hacienda system, growing foreign control of the resources of the region, and the rise of a new Latin American politics of acquisition. The remainder of the chapter shows how the rise of the neocolonial order was reflected in the history of Mexico, Argentina, Chile, and Brazil from about 1870 to 1914.

Identification Terms

Be sure that you are able to identify and explain the historical significance of each of each of these terms from this chapter.

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