Latin America
Subtitle: Politics and Society since 1930 (The Cambridge History of Latin America)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: June 13, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 501
ISBN-13: 9780521595827
Subjects: American history: from c 1900 -; 20th century; Political Science; History: World; History - General History; Central America; South America; Politics and government; History & Theory - General; Latin America - South America; History / Modern / 20th Century; History-Latin America - South America; Latin America--Politics and government--20th; Latin America--Politics and government--20th century; Political Science / History & Theory; Latin America
First sentence: Latin America has often been viewed as a continent where in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the formal architecture of democracy has been a thinly veiled facade for civilian and military tyrants who have imposed their will on conservative and backward peoples.