Americas: The Changing Face of Latin America and the Caribbean / Edition 3

by Peter Winn

Overview

Stunning in its sweep, Americas is the most authoritative history available of contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean. From Mexico to Tierra del Fuego, and from Cuba to Trinidad and Tobago, Americas examines the historical, demographic, political, social, cultural, religious, and economic trends in the region. For this new edition Peter Winn has provided a new preface and made revisions throughout to include the most up-to-date information on changes and developments in Latin America since the last revised edition of 1999.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520245013
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	01/25/2006
Edition description:	Third Edition
Pages:	720
Sales rank:	1,127,056
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.70(d)

About the Author

Peter Winn is Professor of Latin American History and Director of Latin American Studies at Tufts University and a senior research associate at Columbia University's Institute of Latin American Studies. He was academic director of the PBS series Americas: Latin America and the Caribbean, for which the first edition of this book was a companion volume.

Table of Contents

Preface to the 2005 Edition

Preface to the First Edition

1. A View from the South

2. Legacies of Empire

3. The Perils of Progress

4. A Second Independence?

5. Capital Sins

6. Continent on the Move

7. Children of the Sun

8. A Question of Color

9. In Women’s Hands

10. The Power and the Glory

11. The Magical and the Real

12. Endangered States

13. Making Revolution

14. North of the Border

Epilogue: Latin America and the Caribbean
in the Twenty-First Century

Illustration Credits

Notes

Index

Editorial Reviews

Balanced and wide-ranging, this companion volume to a PBS TV series uses a thematic rather than an encyclopedic approach to examine the 33 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. Winn, the academic director of the series and professor of history at Tufts University, ably integrates the PBS team's reportage with current scholarship in seven disciplines, ranging from anthropology to economics to sociology. After canvassing the legacies of the European conquerors, Winn examines issues of national identity and economic development by focusing on Argentina. He looks also at the uneven results of development under the Brazilian military. Other discussions survey internal migration, the role of indigenous peoples, the complexity of race relations and the treatment of women. Concluding chapters address U.S. influence in the region, the history and future of revolution there and, briefly, Latin American influence in the U.S. Photos not seen by PW. (Jan.)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

Written to accompany a television series and college telecourse to be broadcast on PBS this January, Americas is a fairly frantic jump from high spot to high spot through the history to date of Latin America and the Caribbean. Winn, a professor of history at Tufts and the academic director of the series, offers analyses of, among other subjects, the role of women, the influence of the Catholic church, the growing power of the evangelical and spiritualist sects, the three important Latin American revolutions (Mexico in the 1910s, Cuba in 1959, and Nicaragua in 1970), Argentina during the Peron era, and the changing role of indigenous people. The final effect of these essays is a remarkably readable overview of the similarities and differences among the 33 Latin American countries, including the United States and its Hispanic population. Recommended for all public and secondary school libraries and junior colleges.-- Nancy Padgett Lazar, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit

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