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Americas : the changing face of Latin America and the Caribbean / Peter Winn.
Publication details: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 1999.Edition: Updated edDescription: p. cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0520221818 (pbk.) :
- F1414 .W56 1999
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Summary: 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 provided a new preface and epilogue and has updated the book throughout to take account of dramatic changes and developments in Latin America since 1994.
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.
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| F 1410 .W573 2009 The Penguin history of Latin America / | F 1411 .K57 1946 The Spanish conquistadores / | F 1413 .S55 2010 Modern Latin America / | F 1414 .W56 1999 Americas : the changing face of Latin America and the Caribbean / | F 1414.2 .L3273 1988 Latin America : peace, democratization & economic crisis / | F 1414.2 .W75 2001 Latin America in the era of the Cuban Revolution / | F 1418 .A4 1978 Pan-Americanism : from Monroe to the present. |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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 provided a new preface and epilogue and has updated the book throughout to take account of dramatic changes and developments in Latin America since 1994.
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