History of Latin America: C. 1450 to the Present - Rilegato

Bakewell, Peter J.

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0631231617 ISBN 13: 9780631231615

Casa editrice: Blackwell Pub, 2003

Riassunto

This complete history of South and Middle America is now updated to provide fuller coverage of twentieth-century developments in politics and economics, as well as social and cultural life.

• A complete history of Latin America from pre-conquest to the present-day.
• Second edition includes new preface, updated bibliography and a new chapter on the 20th century.
• Covers political, economic, social and cultural history.

Su questo libro

Recensione:

"Bakewell s revision reaches the present, turning what is already an outstanding treatment of the historical substrata of a vast region into the most enterprising and engaging single–volume history of Latin America... the book offers intriguing surprises and consistently intelligent choices and challenges." Kenneth Mills, Princeton University

"A first rate survey, which I find works extremely well with the beginner as well as the more advanced student. Highly recommended." James Casey, University of East Anglia

"[This book] provides a sophisticated analysis blended with a cogent writing style. Students will appreciate the well organized focus." Dr Salvador Rivera,State University of New York

L'autore:

Peter Bakewell studied at Cambridge University and has taught in the United States since 1975, at the University of New Mexico, Emory University, and now, since 1999, at Southern Methodist University. His major research and writing has centered on the history of silver mining, and related topics, in colonial Spanish America. His previous works include Silver Mining and Society and Colonial Mexico: Zacatecas, 1546–1700 (1971) and Silver and Entrepreneurship in Seventeenth-Century Potosí: the Life and Times of Antonio López de Quiroga (1988).

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Blackwell Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0631231617
• ISBN 13: 9780631231615
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 640