Americas
The Changing Face of Latin America and the Caribbean, Updated Edition
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1999
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2nd edition
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-22181-9 (ISBN)
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-22181-9 (ISBN)
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This is a history of contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean. From Mexico to Tierra del Fuego, from Cuba to Trinidad and Tobago, this book analyzes the historical, demographic, political, social, cultural, religious and economic trends in the region.
Stunning in its sweep, Americas is the most authoritative history available of contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean. From Mexico to Tierra del Fuego, from Cuba to Trinidad and Tobago, Americas examines the historical, demographic, political, social, cultural, religious, and economic trends in the region. For this edition, Peter Winn has updated the book to take account of dramatic changes and developments in Latin America since 1994.
Stunning in its sweep, Americas is the most authoritative history available of contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean. From Mexico to Tierra del Fuego, from Cuba to Trinidad and Tobago, Americas examines the historical, demographic, political, social, cultural, religious, and economic trends in the region. For this edition, Peter Winn has updated the book to take account of dramatic changes and developments in Latin America since 1994.
Peter Winn is Professor of Latin American History at Tufts University and a senior research associate at Columbia University's Institute of Latin American and Iberian Studies. He was academic director of the PBS series "Americas: Latin America and the Caribbean," for which the first edition of this book was a companion volume.
Preface to the 1999 Edition
Preface
A View from the South
Legacies of Empire
The Perils of Progress
A Second Independence?
Capital Sins
Continent on the Move
Children of the Sun
A Question of Color
In Women's Hands
The Power and the Glory
The Magical and the Real
Endangered States
Making Revolution
North of the Border
Epilogue: Latin America and the Caribbean at 2000
Notes
Illustration Credits
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 29.10.1999 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 1 color map, 3 b/w maps, 81 b/w photographs |
| Verlagsort | Berkerley |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 165 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 934 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-520-22181-8 / 0520221818 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-520-22181-9 / 9780520221819 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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