Modern Latin America /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2005.
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| Edition: | 6th ed. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Prologue. Why Latin America
- The colonial foundations, 1492-1880s
- The transformation of modern Latin America, 1880s-2000s
- Argentina : prosperity, deadlock, and change
- Chile : socialism, repression, and democracy
- Brazil : development for whom?
- Peru : soldiers, oligarchs, and Indians
- Colombia : discord, civility, and violence
- Mexico : the taming of a revolution
- Cuba : late colony, first socialist state
- The Caribbean : colonies and mini-states
- Central America : colonialism, dictatorship, and revolution
- Latin America, the United States and the world
- What future for Latin America?