The Cambridge History of Latin America

by Leslie Bethell

Overview

The essays in Volume 10: Latin America since 1930: Ideas, Culture and Society discuss the modernist culture of the early twentieth century; the renaissance of Latin American philosophy in the 1940s; major trends in Latin American narrative and poetry, including the indigenous literatures; the work of twentieth-century Latin American composers, architects, and filmmakers; Latin American mass media, including newspapers, magazines, radio and television; and the development of sculpture, painting, and mural art in the twentieth century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521266529
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	10/25/1991
Series:	The Cambridge History of Latin America , #8
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	935
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.40(h) x 2.20(d)

About the Author

Professor Leslie Bethell is Emeritus Professor of Latin American History in the University of London and an Emeritus Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford. He was Director of the University of London Institute of Latin American Studies from 1987 to 1992 and the University of Oxford Centre for Brazilian Studies from 1997 to 2007. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centro de Pesquisa e Documentacao de Historia Contemporanea do Brasil at the Fundacao Getulio Vargas in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Table of Contents

Part I. The Indigenous Peoples of Middle and South America on the Eve of the Conquest; Part II. Colonial Spanish America; Part III. Colonial Brazil; Part IV. The Independence of Latin America; Part V. Latin America; Part VI. Latin America; Part VII. Latin America; Part VIII. Ideas in Latin America Since Independence; Part IX. Latin American Culture since Independence; Part X. The International Relations of Latin America.

Editorial Reviews

"The scope and success of this work is impressive." Thomas S. Jennings, Southern Historian

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