Perfect for the student or traveler, The Chile Reader covers more than 500 years of Chilean history, with an emphasis on the past half-century. Its many selections include interviews, travel diaries, diplomatic cables, cartoons, and photographs.

Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
I. Environment and History 9
II. Chile before Chile: Indigenous Peoples, Conquest, and Colonial Society 59
III. The Honorable Exception: The New Chilean Nation in the Nineteenth Century 121
IV. Building a Modern Nation: Politics and the Social Question in the Nitrate Era 193
V. Depression, Development, and the Politics of Compromise 273
VI. The Chilean Road to Socialism: Reform and Revolution 343
VII. The Pinochet Dictatorship: Military Rule and Neoliberal Economics 433
VIII. Returning to Democracy: Transition and Continuity 521
Selected Readings 605
Acknowledgment of Copyrights and Sources 613
Index 623

Elizabeth Quay Hutchison is Associate Professor of History at the University of New Mexico. She is the author of Labors Appropriate to Their Sex: Gender, Labor, and Politics in Urban Chile, 1900–1930.

Thomas Miller Klubock is Associate Professor of History at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Contested Communities: Class, Gender, and Politics in Chile's El Teniente Copper Mine, 1904–1951.

Nara B. Milanich is Associate Professor of History at Barnard College. She is the author of Children of Fate: Childhood, Class, and the State in Chile, 1850–1930.

Peter Winn is Professor of History at Tufts University. He is the editor of Victims of the Chilean Miracle: Workers and Neoliberalism in the Pinochet Era, 1973–2002. All books mentioned are published by Duke University Press.