Latin America
Subtitle: regions and people
By: Robert B. Kent.
Series: Texts in regional geography
Publisher: Guilford Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 422
Subjects: Latin America -- Geography.; Latin America -- Social conditions.; Latin America -- Economic conditions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: 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 Brazilian 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.