This volume examines the origins of the Latin American republics as well as the economic, societal, and political changes that took place in the last third of the nineteenth century. They ended with the caesura that was the Great Depression, a defining period for Latin America. Alongside socioeconomic and political developments and the corresponding historiographical debates, cultural history also plays an important role.

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Christine Hatzky, Leibniz University, Hanover; Barbara Potthast, University of Cologne, Germany.