Understanding and teaching modern Latin America /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Crawford, Sharika D. (Editor), Zimmerman, Kari E. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Madison, Wisconsin : University of Wisconsin Press, 2026.
Series:Harvey Goldberg series for understanding and teaching history
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Navigating the boundaries of modern Latin American history / Kari E. Zimmerman and Sharika D. Crawford
  • Part One: Major themes in modern Latin American history. Republicanism and democracy in Latin America / James E. Sanders
  • The role of the Haitian Revolution in a modern Latin American history / Joshua Rosenthal
  • African slavery in Latin America / Kari E. Zimmerman
  • Twentieth-century Latin American revolutions / Marc Becker
  • Teaching the Dirty Wars: challenges, approaches, sources / Steven S. Volk
  • Part Two: Critical topics in modern Latin American history. Understanding race, racialization, and racial thinking in modern Latin America / Sharika D. Crawford
  • The nations with immigrants: teaching immigration to Latin America / Mollie Louis Nouwen
  • Labor in Latin America / Ángela Vergara
  • Teaching environmental histories of the Caribbean and Latin America / John Soluri
  • Teaching gender in modern Latin America / Cassia Roth
  • Part Three: Approaches, methods, and sources in teaching modern Latin American history. Testimonios: witnessing the past and teaching with biographical and autobiographical sources / Emily Wakild
  • What's the story? Engaging literature in the modern Latin American history course / Suzanne D. Litrel and Sharika D. Crawford
  • Teaching Latin American history with maps / María de los Ángeles Picone
  • Spicing up the Latin American survey: food as evidence / Rick Warner
  • Latin American themes and content in the Spanish-language classroom / Silvia M. Peart
  • Afterword: What I learned from teaching Latin American history / George Reid Andrews.