The Chile Reader: History, Culture, Politics ed. by Elizabeth Quay Hutchison et al. (review)

The editorial office has received a number of edited volumes of articles that will be of interest to our readership. These works tend to be less suitable for unified reviews than monographs, and thus a considerable backlog has developed. To introduce these volumes, we occasionally list in this section the publication information and tables of contents entries for those we have received. The two volumes selected for this issue are from the Latin American Readers series from Duke University Press and are on the histories of Paraguay and Chile.

Introduction

I. Environment and History

1. “No Better Land,” Pedro de Valdivia

2. The Poetry of Place: “My Country,” Gabriela Mistral

3. Crazy Geography, Benjamin Subercaseaux

4. Catastrophe and National Character, Rolando Mellafe

5. Deforestation in Chile: An Early Report, Claudio Gay

6. “Catastrophe in Sewell,” Pablo Neruda

7. A Call to Conservation, Rafael Elizalde Mac-Clure

8. In Defense of the Forests, Ricardo Carrere

9. Pollution and Politics in Greater Santiago, Saar Van Hauwermeiren

II. Chile before Chile: Indigenous Peoples, Conquest, and Colonial Society: A Paleolithic Footprint

1. A Paleolithic Footprint

2. Chinchorro: The World’s Oldest Mummies

3. Diaguita Ceramics

4. Mapuche Textiles: Culture and Commerce

5. The Inca Meet the Mapuche, Garcilaso de la Vega

6. A Conquistador Pleads His Case to the King, Pedro de Valdivia

7. Exalting the Noble Savage, Alonso de Ercilla

8. Debating Indian Slavery, Melchor Calderón and Diego de Rosales

9. “To Sell, Give, Donate, Trade, or Exchange”: Certification of Indian Enslavement

10. Portrait of Late Colonial Santiago, Vicente Carvallo y Goyeneche

11. From War to Diplomacy: The Summit of Tapihue

12. “The Insolence of Peons,” Mine Owners of Copiapó

III. The Honorable Exception: The New Chilean Nation in the Nineteenth Century

1. A Revolutionary Journalist: “Fundamental Notions of the Rights of Peoples,” Camilo Henríquez

2. An Englishwoman Observes the New Nation, Maria Graham

3. The Authoritarian Republic, Diego Portales

4. A Political Catechism, Francisco Bilbao

5. A Literature of Its Own, Martín Rivas, Alberto Blest Gana

6. The University and the Nation, Andrés Bello

7. A Polish Scientist among the Mapuche, Ignacio Domeyko

8. German Immigrants in the South, Vicente Pérez Rosales

9. The Beagle Diary: “A Peculiar Race of Men,” Charles Darwin

10. How to Run an Hacienda, Manuel José Balmaceda

11. A Franco-Chilean in the California Gold Rush, Pedro Isidoro Combet

12. “The Worst Misery”: Letters to the Santiago Orphanage

13. “A Race of Vagabonds,” Augusto Orrego Luco

IV. Building a Modern Nation: Politics and the Social Question in the Nitrate Era

1. “Audacious and Cruel Spoilations”: The War of the Pacific, Alejandro Fierro

2. A Mapuche Chieftain Remembers “Pacification,” Pascual Coña

3. Chile and Its “Others”

4. Race, Nation, and the “Roto Chileno,” Nicolás Palacios

5. Nitrates, Nationalism, and the End of the Autocratic Republic, José Manuel Balmaceda, Arturo Alessandri, and a popular poet

6. A Manifesto to the Chilean People, Democratic Party

7. “God Distributes His Gifts Unequally”: An Archbishop Defends Social Inequality, Mariano Casanova

8. Workers’ Movements and the Birth of the Chilean Left, Luis Emilio Recabarren

9. Nitrate Workers and State Violence: The Massacre at Escuela Santa María de Iquique, Elías Lafertte

10. Women, Work, and Labor Politics, Esther Valdéz de Díaz

11. The Lion of Tarapacá, Arturo Alessandri

12. Autocrats versus Aristocrats: The Decay of Chile’s Parliamentary Republic, Alberto Edwards

13. Rescuing the Body Politic: Manifesto of a Military Coup

14. The Poet as Creator of Worlds: Altazor, Vicente Huidobro

15. “Mother of Chile”? “Women’s Suffrage” and “Valle de Elqui,” Gabriela Mistral

V. Depression, Development, and the Politics of Compromise

1. “Their Work Has Laid the Foundation for Greatness”: Chile’s Arab Industrialists

2. Is Chile a Catholic Country? Alberto Hurtado

3. “I Told Myself I Must Find Work, I Cannot Continue Here”: Interview with a Household Worker

4. Fundamental Theoretical Principles of the Socialist Party, Julio César Jobet

5. Public Health Crisis, Salvador Allende

6. “Progress for All Social Classes”: Campaigning for the Popular Front, Pedro Aguirre Cerda

7. Rural Workers, Landowners, and the Politics of Compromise, The League of Poor

8. Campesinos of Las Cabras and the National...