Authors: James A. Wood, John Charles Chasteen
ISBN-13: 9780742556454, ISBN-10: 074255645X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Date Published: February 2009
Edition: 3rd Edition
Now in its third edition, this leading reader has been updated to make it even more relevant to the study of contemporary Latin America. This edition includes an entirely new chapter, _The New Left Turn,_ and the globalization chapter has been thoroughly revised to reflect the rapid pace of change over the past five years. The book continues to offer a rich variety of materials that can be tailored to the needs of individual instructors. By focusing each chapter on a single interpretive _problem,_ the book painlessly engages students in document analysis and introduces them to historiography. With its innovative combination of primary and secondary sources and editorial analysis, this text is designed specifically to stimulate critical thinking in a wide range of courses on Latin American history since independence.
Independence and Its Consequences
Slavery and Culture
Caudillos
Liberalism and the Catholic Church
Race and Nation Building
Neocolonialism
Nationalism
Women and Social Change
Populism and the Working Class
Social Revolution
Latin America, the United States, and the Cold War
Globalization
The New Left Turn