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The History of Latin America: Collision of Cultures (Palgrave Essential Histories)
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by Marshall C. Eakin
Sales Rank: 304624
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List Price: $19.95
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 448 pages
Published by: Palgrave Macmillan June 12, 2007
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 1403980810
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1403980816
Book Dimensions:
9 x 6 x 1.3 inches
Weighs: 1 pounds
Product Review
Praise for Brazil: The Once and Future Country:"The best short survey of Brazil since the anthropologist Charles Wagley's 1963 classic, An Introduction to Brazil."--Kenneth Maxwell, Foreign Affairs "Eakin's clear organizational framework combines with his taut prose to produce a highly readable and informative history of Latin America. Students will want to turn first to The History of Latin America: Collision of Cultures to begin their education in the history of this fascinating region."--Todd A. Diacon, Professor of History, Vice Provost for Academic Operations, The University of Tennessee
Product Description
This narrative history of Latin America surveys five centuries in less than five hundred pages. The first third of the book moves from the Americas before Columbus to the wars for independence in the early nineteenth century. The construction of new nations and peoples in the nineteenth century forms the middle third, and the final section analyzes economic development, rising political participation, and the search of identity over the last century. The collision of peoples and cultures--Native Americans, Europeans, Africans--that defines Latin America, and gives it both its unity and diversity, provides the central theme of this concise, synthetic history.
Reader Reviews
i bought this book to get a refresher on Latin American history, and while it does that, it has some limitations other readers might consider before buying it. The first, and most important, is that the area I was most interested in -- 1600-1800 -- hardly exists in the book. I had to go out and get a copy of Bakewell's book (far superior for this period, and except for the last section, throughout superior) instead. The second limitation is that the book hardly goes in for quotations or pictures or anything really lively -- it is all more or less at one note. But it is not a bad note: the author clearly knows his stuff, and the book picks up towards the end. A second edition rewrite would do a lot!
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