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A single-volume history of Latin America. Professor Williamson starts with the pre-Columbian Indian peoples and the slow, often savage process of colonization by which Spaniards and Portuguese came to control territory many times the size of Spain. Indeed, it was not until the age of the Enlightenment, dynastic shifts, imperial reforms and Napoleonic conquests in Europe that the scene was set for independent republics. Our own century has witnessed both the long decline of Argentina and the dynamic corporatism of Mexico, lurches between dictatorship and democracy in Brazil and Chile, and utterly distinct developments in Cuba. All this is summarized and surveyed in this book.Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Books LTD
ISBN-139780140125597
eBay Product ID (ePID)89425005
Product Key Features
Number of Pages640 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameThe Penguin History of Latin America
Publication Year1993
SubjectHistory
TypeTextbook
AuthorEdwin Williamson
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height198 mm
Item Weight440 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorEdwin Williamson