Americas: The Changing Face of Latin America and the Caribbean

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
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