The history of Venezuela
Title:
The history of Venezuela
Author:
Tarver Denova, Hollis Micheal.
ISBN:
9780313060274
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Publication Information:
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2005.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xxiii, 189 p.) : 1 map.
Series:
The Greenwood histories of the modern nations,
Greenwood histories of the modern nations.
Contents:
A petroleum republic -- Venezuela to 1600 -- The colonial era (to 1810) -- Movements toward independence (1810-1830) -- The age of caudillismo (1830-1898) -- Restoration and rehabilitation (1899-1935) -- The emergence of modern Venezuela (1935-1958) -- The return of democracy (1959-1963) -- The institutionalization of democracy (1964-1973) -- Venezuelan boom and bust (1974-1988) -- Chaos, futility, and incompetence (1989-1998) -- The Bolivarian revolution (1999-2005).
Abstract:
On his third voyage of discovery from Spain, Christopher Columbus sighted Venezuela. Spanish explorers observed native homes built on stilts at the water's edge and gave the land its name, which means little Venice. Venezuela became a Spanish colony for the next 300 years before the South American Independence Movement which liberated the country in 1821. After a brief period of unification with Colombia and Ecuador, Venezuela was then controlled by a succession of military dictators. Political strife and civil war followed. In the 1900s oil was discovered, military rule ensued, and Venezuela.
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