Book description
Contemporary Latin America
presents the epochal political, economic, social, and cultural changes
in Latin America over the last 40 years and comprehensively examines
their impact on life in the region, and beyond.
- Provides a fresh approach and a new interpretation of the seismic
changes of the last 40 years in Latin America
- Introduces major themes from a humanistic and universal
perspective, putting each subject in a context that readers can
understand and relate to
- Focuses on 'Ibero-America'--Brazil and the eighteen countries that
were formerly Spanish possessions- while offering valuable
comparative views of the non-Iberian areas of the Caribbean
- Emphasizes the global, regional and national dimensions of the
region's recent past
Robert H. Holden teaches Latin American history at Old Dominion
University in Norfolk, Virginia. He is the author of, among others,
Armies without Nations: Public Violence and State Formation in
Central America, 1821-1960 (2004) and co-editor of Latin
America and the United States: A Documentary History (with Eric
Zolov, 2010), and has written numerous scholarly articles.
Rina Villars is the author of three books in Spanish on
the history and political culture of Central America, and of scholarly
articles on Spanish linguistics and women.
