America, América: a new history of the New World

Introduction: On the utilities of magpies

Part I: To begin in wonder: the Spanish. Leaves of grass ; These is only one world ; Ego vox ; Goodbye Aristotle ; New laws ; Bartolomé's many ghosts

Part II: Empty houses: the English. Empty houses ; Irish tactics ; Lost in the world's debate ; The western design ; Opening the Mexican fountain

Part III: American revolutions. Three kings ; Come the crows ; Grand strategies ; The ambiguity in which we live ; War to the death

Part IV: Union/desunión. A kind of international law for America ; The balancing power: Monroe's doctrine ; As you possess ; This American party ; Sister nations ; Torments

Part V: Young Americans. The march of God ; Two Americas ; Lincoln belongs to us ; Twilight ; America for humanity ; Tar wars

Part VI: Toward a world doctrine. Mexico's revolution ; Wilson's dilemma ; Monroe Doctrine of the future ; Subsoil socialism ; Bolívar dreamt ; Death and the salesmen

Part VII: Laboratory of the world. To Montevideo ; The so-called right of conquest ; Hell bent for reelection ; The faith of the Americas ; Battle for Latin America ; A people's war ; There would have been nothing

Part VIII: The killing of Jorge Eliécer Gaitán. Underdeveloped economists ; A chapter on Latin America ; The killing of Gaitán ; A red masterpiece ; Peace, peace, don't kill us ; The perpetual rhythm of struggle ; War of of the gods, or, A second enlightenment ; Restoring the magisterium

Epilogue: America, América

Acknowledgments

Notes

Illustration credits

Index.