Latin America - Third World Author:Philip Evanson The Third World volumes have been written to provide much needed materials on non-Western cultures. In the past, most studies of the non-Western world were chronological in organization or dealt with the regions studied by using the traditional themes of religion, politics, history and economics. Very few, if any, offered the reader a thematic ... more »perspective. The volumes in the Third World series discuss the regions of Africa, Latin America, Middle East, South Asia and Southeastern Asia from the perspective of societies and cultures in transition.« less