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Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. Environment and History -- "No Better Land," / Pedro de Valdivia -- Poetry of Place: "My Country," / Gabriela Mistral -- Crazy Geography / Benjamin Subercaseaux -- Catastrophe and National Character / Rolando Mellafe -- Deforestation in Chile: An Early Report / Claudio Gay -- "Catastrophe in Sewell," / Pablo Neruda -- Call to Conservation / Rafael Elizalde Mac-Clure -- In Defense of the Forests / Ricardo Carrere -- Pollution and Politics in Greater Santiago / Saar Van Hauwermeiren -- II. Chile before Chile: Indigenous Peoples, Conquest, and Colonial Society -- Paleolithic Footprint -- Chinchorro: The World's Oldest Mummies -- Diaguita Ceramics -- Mapuche Textiles: Culture and Commerce -- Inca Meet the Mapuche / Garcilaso de la Vega -- Conquistador Pleads His Case to the King / Pedro de Valdivia -- Exalting the Noble Savage / Alonso de Ercilla -- Debating Indian Slavery / Diego de Rosales -- "To Sell, Give, Donate, Trade, or Exchange": Certification of Indian Enslavement -- Portrait of Late Colonial Santiago, Vicente Carvallo y Goyeneche -- From War to Diplomacy: The Summit of Tapihue -- "The Insolence of Peons," Mine Owners of Copiapo -- III. Honorable Exception: The New Chilean Nation in the Nineteenth Century -- Revolutionary Journalist: "Fundamental Notions of the Rights of Peoples," / Camilo Henriquez -- Englishwoman Observes the New Nation / Maria Graham -- Authoritarian Republic / Diego Portales -- Political Catechism / Francisco Bilbao -- Literature of Its Own: Martin Rivas / Alberto Blest Gana -- University and the Nation / Andres Bello -- Polish Scientist among the Mapuche / Ignacio Domeyko -- German Immigrants in the South / Vicente Perez Rosales -- Beagle Diary: "A Peculiar Race of Men," / Charles Darwin -- How to Run an Hacienda / Manuel Jose Balmaceda -- Franco-Chilean in the California Gold Rush / Pedro Isidoro Combet -- "The Worst Misery": Letters to the Santiago Orphanage -- "A Race of Vagabonds," / Augusto Orrego Luco -- IV. Building a Modern Nation: Politics and the Social Question in the Nitrate Era -- "Audacious and Cruel Spoliations": The War of the Pacific / Alejandro Fierro -- Mapuche Chieftain Remembers "Pacification," / Pascual Cona -- Chile and Its "Others" -- Race, Nation, and the "Roto Chileno," / Nicolas Palacios -- Nitrates, Nationalism, and the End of the Autocratic Republic, Jose Manuel Balmaceda, Arturo Alessandri, and a popular poet -- Manifesto to the Chilean People, Democratic Party -- "God Distributes His Gifts Unequally": An Archbishop Defends Social Inequality / Mariano Casanova -- Workers' Movements and the Birth of the Chilean Left / Luis Emilio Recabarren -- Nitrate Workers and State Violence: The Massacre at Escuela Santa Maria de Iquique / Elias Lafertte -- Women, Work, and Labor Politics / Esther Valdes de Diaz -- Lion of Tarapaca / Arturo Alessandri -- Autocrats versus Aristocrats: The Decay of Chile's Parliamentary Republic / Alberto Edwards -- Rescuing the Body Politic: Manifesto of a Military Coup -- Poet as Creator of Worlds: Altazor, Vicente Huidobro -- "Mother of Chile"? "Women's Suffrage" and "Valle de Elqui," / Gabriela Mistral -- V. Depression, Development, and the Politics of Compromise -- "Their Work Has Laid the Foundation for Greatness": Chile's Arab Industrialists -- Is Chile a Catholic Country? Alberto Hurtado -- "I Told Myself I Must Find Work, I Cannot Continue Here": Interview with a Household Worker -- Fundamental Theoretical Principles of the Socialist Party / Julio Cesar Jobet -- Public Health Crisis / Salvador Allende -- "Progress for All Social Classes": Campaigning for the Popular Front / Pedro Aguirre Cerda -- Rural Workers, Landowners, and the Politics of Compromise, The League of Poor Campesinos of Las Cabras and the National Society of Agriculture -- Case of Frustrated Development / Anibal Pinto -- Movement for the Emancipation of Chilean Women: Interview with Elena Caffarena -- Poetry and Politics: Memoirs and "The Heights of Macchu Picchu," / Pablo Neruda -- Miners' Strikes and the Demise of the Popular Front: U.S. State Department Cables -- States of Exception / Elena Caffarena -- Birth of a Shantytown / Juan Lemunir -- Klein-Saks: Chile's First Experiment with Neoliberalism -- VI. Chilean Road to Socialism: Reform and Revolution -- Between Capitalism and Communism: Social Christianity as a Third Way / Eduardo Frei -- Property and Production: A Pamphlet Promoting Christian Democracy's Agrarian Reform -- Christian Left and Communitarian Socialism / Julio Silva Solar -- New Song Movement: An Interview with Inti-Illimani -- Lyrics of the New Song Movement / Victor Jara -- Election of 1970 -- Election of Salvador Allende: Declassified U.S. Government Documents -- Mapuche Land Takeover at Rucalan: Interviews with Peasants and Landowners -- Revolution in the Factory: Interviews with Workers at the Yarur Cotton Mill -- Chilean Revolution One Year In / Salvador Allende Gossens -- Women Lead the Opposition to Allende: Interview with Carmen Saenz -- "So That Chile Can Renew Its March Forward," Chilean Business and Professional Associations -- Demands of the People, Movement of the Revolutionary Left -- "A Treasonous History," A Group of Retired Generals and Admirals -- United States Policy and Covert Action against Allende, The Church Committee -- "Everyone Knows What Is Going to Happen," Radomiro Tomic to General Carlos Prats -- "These Are My Final Words," / Salvador Allende Gossens -- VII. Pinochet Dictatorship: Military Rule and Neoliberal Economics -- Diary of a Coup / Peter Winn -- "In the Eyes of God and History," Government Junta of the Armed Forces and Carabineros of Chile -- Pinochet's Caravan of Death / Patricia Verdugo -- Women and Torture, National Commission on Political Detention and Torture -- Operation Condor and the Transnationalization of Terror, U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation -- Protected Democracy and the 1980 Constitution / Jaime Guzman -- Shantytown Protest: Interviews with Pobladores -- "There Is No Feminism without Democracy," / Julieta Kirkwood -- Kids of Barrio Alto / Alberto Fuguet -- Sexuality and Soccer / Pedro Lemebel -- Competing Perspectives on Dictatorship as Revolution / Ernesto Tironi -- Whole World Was Watching: The 1988 Plebiscite, The Observer Group of the Latin American Studies Association -- VIII. Returning to Democracy: Transition and Continuity -- Justice "To the Degree Possible": The Rettig Report / Patricio Aylwin Azocar -- Surveillance Within and Without: The Custody of the Eyes / Diamela Eltit -- Legislating Gender Equality? Voices from Congress and Civil Society -- Gender and Sexuality in Transition -- Credit-Card Citizen / Tomas Moulian -- "Chile's Greatest Addition to the Spanish Language": Huevon / Alvaro Taboada -- "I Never Looked for Power," / Augusto Pinochet Ugarte -- Historians Critique Pinochet's "Anti-History," Eleven Chilean Historians -- Mapuche Nation and the Chilean Nation / Elicura Chihuailaf -- Growth with Equity / Alejandro Foxley -- So Conservative and Yet So Modern? The Politics of Concertacion / Alfredo Jocelyn-Holt -- Catholic Church Today / Antonio Delfau, S.J. -- "To Never Again Live It, To Never Again Deny It": The Valech Report on Torture / Ricardo Lagos -- Chilean Army after Pinochet / Juan Emilio Cheyre Espinosa -- La Senora Presidenta / Michelle Bachelet -- Bicentennial Generation -- Selected readings -- Acknowledgment of copyrights and sources -- Index. |
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