The Chile reader: history, culture, politics

No better land in the whole wide world / Pedro de Valdivia

The poetry of place / Gabriela Mistral

Chile's "crazy geography" / Benjamín Subercaseaux

Catastrophe and national character / Rolando Mellafe

Deforestation in Chile : an early report / Claudio Gay

"Catastrophe in Sewell" / Pablo Neruda

A call to conservationism in Chile / Rafael Elizalde MacClure

In defense of the forests / Ricardo Carrere

Pollution and politics in greater Santiago / Saar Van Hauwermeiren

The Inca meet the Mapuche / Garcilaso de la Vega, Comentarios Reales

A conquistador pleads his case / Pedro de Valdivia, Letter to the King

Exalting the noble savage / Alonso de Ercilla, La Araucana

Debating Indian slavery / Melchor Calderón and Diego de Rosales

"To sell, give, donate, trade, or exchange" / Certification of Indian Enslavement, 1657

Portrait of late Colonial Santiago / Vicente Carvallo y Goyeneche

From war to diplomacy / The Summit of Tapihue

"The Insolence of peons" / Mine owners of Copiapó

A revolutionary journalist / Camilo Henríquez, Fundamental notions of the rights of peoples

An Englishwoman observes the new nation / Maria Graham, Journal of a residence in Chile in 1822

The authoritarian republic / Diego Portales

A political catechism / Francisco Bilbao, The American Gospel

A literature of its own / Alberto Blest Gana, Martín Rivas

The university and the nation / Andrés Bello, address delivered at the inauguration of the University of Chile

A Polish scientist among the Mapuche / Ignacio Domeyko, Araucanía and its People

German immigrants in the South / Vicente Pérez Rosales, Times gone by

"A peculiar race of men" : gold, copper, and sweat / Charles Darwin, Beagle Diary

How to run an hacienda / José Manuel Balmaceda, The landowner's handbook

A Franco-Chilean in the Gold Rush / Pedro Isidoro Combet, Memories of California

The worst misery

Letters to the Santiago orphanage

A race of vagabonds

Augusto Orrego Luco, the social question

Race, nation, and the "roto chileno" / Nicolás Palacios

The war of the Pacific, 1879-1893 / Alejandro Fierro

The pacification of the Araucanía / Pascual Coña

Gallery : Chile and its "others"

Balmaceda and the civil war of 1891, José Manuel Balmaceda and Arturo Alessandri

The politics of reform, the manifesto of the Democratic party to the Chilean people, 1888

The Catholic Church and the social question / 1893 pastoral letter of Archbishop Mariano Casanova

Workers' movements and the birth of the Chilean left / Luis Emilio Recabarren

Nitrate workers and state violence : the massacre at Escuela Santa María de Iquique / Elias Lafertte

Women, work, and labor politics / Esther Valdés de Díaz

The Lion of Tarapacá / Arturo Alessandri

The decay of Chile's parliamentary republic / Alberto Edwards

Military intervention and the end of the parliamentary republic / 1924 military coup pronunciamiento

Poetic creationism / Vicente Huidobro

"Mother of Chile" and poet of Chilenidad / Gabriela Mistral

Industrialization and Chile's Arab immigrants / interview with Juan Yarur and the Arab community in Chile

Social change and the crisis of the Catholic Church / Alberto Hurtado, "Is Chile a Catholic Country?"

"I told myself I must find work, I cannot continue here" / interview with Elba Bravo, domestic service activist

Fundamental theoretical principles of the Socialist Party / The Chilean Socialist Party, 1933

Chile's public health crisis / Salvador Allende

The Popular Front / Pedro Aguirre Cerda

Rural workers, landowners, and the politics of compromise / The League of Poor Campesinos of Las Cabras and the Sociedad Nacional de Agricultura

Chile's "frustrated development" / Aníbal Pinto

The Movement for the Emancipation of Chilean Women (MEMCH) / interview with Elena Caffarena

Autobiography and poems / Pablo Neruda

Miners' strikes and the demise of the Popular Front / U.S. State Department cables

"Our constitution and our laws contain iniquitous precepts" / Elena Caffarena

Rural-urban migration and the founding of a Santiago shantytown / Juan Lemuñir

Klein-Sacks : Chile's first experiment with neo-liberalism (image)

Between capitalism and communism / Eduardo Frei, The Mission of Social Christianity in Chile

Property and production / a brochure promoting Christian Democracy's agrarian reform

The Christian left / Jacques Chonchol and Julio Silva Solar, Toward a Communitarian World

The new song movement / interview with Inti-Illimani

Lyrics of the new song movement / Violeta Parra and Victor Jara

Gallery : The election of 1970

The United States and the election of Salvador Allende / de-classified U.S. government documents

A Mapuche land takeover / Peasants and landowners of Rucalán

"We take the factory" / Workers at the Yarur Cotton Mill

"Informing the people" / President Salvador Allende Gossens

"Women's power" against Allende / interview with Carmen Saenz

"So that Chile can renew its march forward" / Chilean Business and Professional Associations' Demands

"The 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, 1975

"Everyone knows what is going to happen" / Radomiro Tomic to General Carlos Prats

"These are my final words" / President Salvador Allende Gossens

The military takes Santiago / Peter Winn

The new military regime justifies intervention / Government Junta of the Armed Forces and Carabineros of Chile

Pinochet's caravan of death / Patricia Verdugo

Women and torture / The National Commission on Political Detention and Torture

Transnationalization of terror : Operation Condor / US Federal Bureau of Investigations

The 1980 Constitution / Jaime Guzmán

Shantytown protest / The Pobladores speak

The Chilean Women 's Movement / Julieta Kirkwood

The kids of Barrio Alto / Alberto Fuguet

Sexuality and soccer / Pedro Lemebel

Dictatorship as revolution / Joaquín Lavín and Ernesto Tironi

The whole world was watching / The observer group of the Latin American Studies

Justice "to the degree possible" / Patricio Aylwin Azócar

"The custody of the eyes" / Diamela Eltit

Legislating gender equality / Pilar Molina Armas

Gallery : social movements in transition

The credit-card citizen / Tomás Moulin, Chile Today: Anatomy of a Myth

"Chile's greatest addition to the Spanish language" / John Brennan and Alvaro Taboada

"I never looked for power" / Augusto Pinochet Ugarte

Historians critique Pinochet's "Anti-history" / eleven Chilean historians (also signed by 73 other scholars)

The Mapuche nation and the Chilean nation / Elicura Chihuailaf

Growth with equity / Alejandro Foxley

The politics of concertación / Alfredo Jocelyn-Holt

"Chile : a Catholic country?" / Antonio Delfau, S.J.

"To never again live it, to never again deny it" / President Ricardo Lagos, The Valech report

The Chilean army after Pinochet / Army General and Commander in Chief Juan Emilio Cheyre Espinosa

La Presidenta de Chile, President Michelle Bachelet, 2006- 2010

Gallery : bicentennial embraces.