The History of Ecuador

by George M. Lauderbaugh

Overview

This handbook provides an unmatched, comprehensive political history of Ecuador written in English.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313362514
Publisher:	ABC-CLIO, Incorporated
Publication date:	02/25/2012
Series:	The Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	189
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

George M. Lauderbaugh, PhD, is associate professor of history at Jacksonville State University in Jacksonville, AL.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword
Preface
Timeline of Historical Events
1 Ecuador Today
2 Ecuador's Indigenous and Colonial Past
3 Independence and the Early Republic, 1795–1859
4 Conservative Modernization, 1860–95
5 The Liberal Revolution
6 Revolution, Reform, Chaos, and War, 1925–48
7 Ecuador, 1948–72: Bananas, Democracy, Populism, and Juntas
8 The Oil Boom, Military Reformers, and a Second Democratic Parenthesis, 1972–96
9 Populism, Political Instability, and the Citizen's Revolution
Notable People in the History of Ecuador
Selected Bibliography
Index