Latin America
Subtitle: regions and people
By: Robert B. Kent
Edition: Second edition.
Series: Texts in regional geography : a Guilford series; Texts in regional geography
Publisher: The Guilford Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9781462525508; 9781462525515
Subjects: Social conditions; Economic conditions; Geography
Description: "An authoritative overview of Latin America's human geography and regional complexity. It traces Latin America's historical developments while revealing the diversity of its people and places. Coverage encompasses cultural history, environment and physical geography, urban development, agriculture and land use, social and economic processes, and the contemporary patterns of Latin American diaspora"--Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Latin America as a culture region; title: The environment; title: The Hispanic Caribbean; title: Peopling Latin America to 1820; title: The mesa central of Mexico; title: Early cities and urban development; title: The Andes; title: Migration, population change, and race; title: The central valley of Chile; title: The Central American highlands; title: Land and people since the conquest; title: Brazil's Atlantic coastal plain; title: Contemporary cities and urban patterns; title: The southern Brazil highlands; title: Latin American development in perspective; title: The pampa; title: Latin America in the world economy; title: The Amazon basin; title: The Latin American diaspora; title: Conclusion.