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Latin America: A Concise Interpretive History
Latin America A Concise Interpretive History Author:E. Bradford Burns This timely book sweeps through Latin American history from the conquest to the contemporary crises, using individual country case studies to illustrate the themes. It integrates the Brazilian experience with the Spanish American, and the traditionally neglected areas (Haiti, Puerto Rico, and Paraquay, for example) with the histories of the lar... more »ger nations. Emphasizing the search for economic development as a theme of a national Latin America, the text presents readers with an enigma: poor people inhabiting rich lands, and exposes them to the roles of both elites and masses.« less