num_pages: 528
description: Now thoroughly updated in its seventh edition, Modern Latin America is a lively interpretive history and the leading text in the field. Featuring vivid anecdotal illustrative boxes, the book uses case studies to discuss the major countries and themes of the region over the past 150 years.Modern Latin America , Seventh Edition, will continue to be an exceptional text for undergraduate courses on contemporary Latin American history, society, and politics.New to this Edition· Four entirely new o The central Andes, including Peru and--for the first time--Bolivia and Ecuador (chapter 6)o Venezuela (chapter 8)o Strategies for economic development (chapter 12)o Culture and society (chapter 14)· Two additional new chapters created by recombining previous o The Greater Caribbean and Central America (chapter 4)o Political transitions in comparative perspective (chapter 13)Ancillaries· Companion Website (www.oup.com/us/skidmore)o For students and general a timeline of key events, analyses of major news developments, lists of heads of state, questions for review, suggestions for further reading, and guides to primary sourceso For an essay on pedagogical challenges in teaching Latin America, sample syllabi, and a guide to instructional videos and films
language: English
title: Modern Latin America
titlecomplete: Modern Latin America
genres: American, History, School, World History, Science, Modern, Latin American, Politics, Textbooks, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 393
publisher: Oxford University Press