A Factual Study of Latin America
Author | : William Stanley Rycroft |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2011-12 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781258222673 |
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Author | : William Stanley Rycroft |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2011-12 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781258222673 |
Author | : United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (UNITED STATES OF AMERICA). Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations. Office for Research |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Soluri |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2018-02-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1785333917 |
Though still a relatively young field, the study of Latin American environmental history is blossoming, as the contributions to this definitive volume demonstrate. Bringing together thirteen leading experts on the region, A Living Past synthesizes a wide range of scholarship to offer new perspectives on environmental change in Latin America and the Spanish Caribbean since the nineteenth century. Each chapter provides insightful, up-to-date syntheses of current scholarship on critical countries and ecosystems (including Brazil, Mexico, the Caribbean, the tropical Andes, and tropical forests) and such cross-cutting themes as agriculture, conservation, mining, ranching, science, and urbanization. Together, these studies provide valuable historical contexts for making sense of contemporary environmental challenges facing the region.
Author | : Daniel J. Greenberg |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781315717326 |
"From the Foundations in Global Studies series, this text offers students a fresh, comprehensive, multidisciplinary entry point to Latin America. After a brief introduction to the study of Latin America, the early chapters of the book survey the essentials of Latin American history; important historical narratives; and the region's languages, religions, and global connections. Students are guided through the material with relevant maps, resource boxes, and text boxes that support and guide further independent exploration of the topics at hand. The second half of the book features interdisciplinary case studies, each of which focuses on a specific country or sub-region and a particular issue. Each chapter gives a flavor for the cultural distinctiveness of the particular country yet also draws attention to global linkages. Readers will come away from this book with an understanding of the larger historical, political, and cultural frameworks that shaped Latin America as we know it today, and of current issues that have relevance in Latin America and beyond"--
Author | : Tulio Halperín Donghi |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780822313748 |
For a quarter of a century, Tulio Halperín Donghi's Historia Contemporánea de América Latina has been the most influential and widely read general history of Latin America in the Spanish-speaking world. Unparalleled in scope, attentive to the paradoxes of Latin American reality, and known for its fine-grained interpretation, it is now available for the first time in English. Revised and updated by the author, superbly translated, this landmark of Latin American historiography will be accessible to an entirely new readership. Beginning with a survey of the late colonial landscape, The Contemporary History of Latin America traces the social, economic, and political development of the region to the late twentieth century, with special emphasis on the period since 1930. Chapters are organized chronologically, each beginning with a general description of social and economic developments in Latin America generally, followed by specific attention to political matters in each country. What emerges is a well-rounded and detailed picture of the forces at work throughout Latin American history. This book will be of great interest to all those seeking a general overview of modern Latin American history, and its distinctive Latin American voice will enhance its significance for all students of Latin American history.
Author | : Teresa A. Meade |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2016-01-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1118772482 |
Now available in a fully-revised and updated second edition, A History of Modern Latin America offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the rich cultural and political history of this vibrant region from the onset of independence to the present day. Includes coverage of the recent opening of diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Cuba as well as a new chapter exploring economic growth and environmental sustainability Balances accounts of the lives of prominent figures with those of ordinary people from a diverse array of social, racial, and ethnic backgrounds Features first-hand accounts, documents, and excerpts from fiction interspersed throughout the narrative to provide tangible examples of historical ideas Examines gender and its influence on political and economic change and the important role of popular culture, including music, art, sports, and movies, in the formation of Latin American cultural identity Includes all-new study questions and topics for discussion at the end of each chapter, plus comprehensive updates to the suggested readings
Author | : Raymond L. Gorden |
Publisher | : NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : |
'Living in Latin America' focuses on this fascinating process of understanding the cultural differences between the United States and Latin America.
Author | : Andre Gunder Frank |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 371 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0853450935 |
Originally published: Monthly Review Press, 1967.
Author | : Irving B. Reed |
Publisher | : [Coral Gables, Fla.] : Center for Advanced International Studies, University of Miami |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Latin America |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mark Carey |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2010-04-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 019974257X |
Climate change is producing profound changes globally. Yet we still know little about how it affects real people in real places on a daily basis because most of our knowledge comes from scientific studies that try to estimate impacts and project future climate scenarios. This book is different, illustrating in vivid detail how people in the Andes have grappled with the effects of climate change and ensuing natural disasters for more than half a century. In Peru's Cordillera Blanca mountain range, global climate change has generated the world's most deadly glacial lake outburst floods and glacier avalanches, killing 25,000 people since 1941. As survivors grieved, they formed community organizations to learn about precarious glacial lakes while they sent priests to the mountains, hoping that God could calm the increasingly hostile landscape. Meanwhile, Peruvian engineers working with miniscule budgets invented innovative strategies to drain dozens of the most unstable lakes that continue forming in the twenty first century. But adaptation to global climate change was never simply about engineering the Andes to eliminate environmental hazards. Local urban and rural populations, engineers, hydroelectric developers, irrigators, mountaineers, and policymakers all perceived and responded to glacier melting differently-based on their own view of an ideal Andean world. Disaster prevention projects involved debates about economic development, state authority, race relations, class divisions, cultural values, the evolution of science and technology, and shifting views of nature. Over time, the influx of new groups to manage the Andes helped transform glaciated mountains into commodities to consume. Locals lost power in the process and today comprise just one among many stakeholders in the high Andes-and perhaps the least powerful. Climate change transformed a region, triggering catastrophes while simultaneously jumpstarting modernization processes. This book's historical perspective illuminates these trends that would be ignored in any scientific projections about future climate scenarios.