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Modern Latin America

Thomas Skidmore, Peter Smith, James Green

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA, 2009

ISBN: 9780195375701

Product: Book, Paperback

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Now thoroughly updated in its seventh edition, Modern Latin America is a lively interpretive history and the leading text in the field. Featuring vivid anecdotal illustrative boxes, the book uses case studies to discuss the major countries and themes of the region over the past 150 years.

Modern Latin America, Seventh Edition, will continue to be an exceptional text for undergraduate courses on contemporary Latin American history, society, and politics.

New to this Edition

- Four entirely new chapters:
o The central Andes, including Peru and--for the first time--Bolivia and Ecuador (chapter 6)
o Venezuela (chapter 8)
o Strategies for economic development (chapter 12)
o Culture and society (chapter 14)

- Two additional new chapters created by recombining previous ones:
o The Greater Caribbean and Central America (chapter 4)
o Political transitions in comparative perspective (chapter 13)

Ancillaries

- Companion Website (www.oup.com/us/skidmore)
oFor students and general readers: a timeline of key events, analyses of major news developments, lists of heads of state, questions for review, suggestions for further reading, and guides to primary sources
o For instructors: an essay on pedagogical challenges in teaching Latin America, sample syllabi, and a guide to instructional videos and films

Thomas E. Skidmore is Carlos Manuel de Cespedes Professor of History Emeritus at Brown University. He is the author of Brazil: Five Centuries of Change (OUP 1999), Politics in Brazil 1930-1964 (OUP 2007), The Politics of Military Rule in Brazil (OUP 1990), and Black into White (Duke University Press 1993).Peter H. Smith is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Simon Bolivar Professor of Latin American Studes at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Democracy in Latin America (OUP 2005) and Talons of the Eagle, 3e (OUP 2008).James N. Green is Associate Professor of History and Brazilian Studies at Brown University. He is the author of Beyond Carnival: Male Homosexuality in Twentieth-century Brazil (University of Chicago 1999).
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9780195375701

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Book, Paperback

Title:

Modern Latin America

Edition:

7

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Publisher:

Oxford University Press, USA, 2009

Pages:

480

Languages:

English

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