Jan Knippers Black's Latin America: Its Problems and Its Promise is one of the most successful textbooks on Latin America. A multidisciplinary collection of invited chapters edited by Black and intended for introductory courses on Latin America, the new fourth edition chronicles the region's ongoing struggle to attain effective sovereignty, democracy and equity. It has been updated to include chapters on the impact of globalization, changing gender roles, and new social movements, especially of peasants and indigenous peoples. Unlike other Latin America textbooks, this volume is purposefully multidisciplinary, including contributions from historians, geographers, economists, political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists, philosophers, and diplomats. Only contributors well-known for their expertise on specific relevant topics are invited to contribute to this volume. The multidisciplinary perspective introduces students to the history, geography, politics, and culture of Latin America. This fourth edition is streamlined yet includes a special focus on significant current events and trends.
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Jan Knippers Black is a professor in the Graduate School of International Policy Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies in California. She has authored or edited and co-authored a dozen books, including Development in Theory and Practice: Paradigms and Paradoxes, Second Edition (Westview Press, 1999).
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Latin America is among the largest world culture regions with an area of 20.5 million sq km (7.9 million sq mi), more than double the size of the United States. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
counterrevolutionary regimes, dominant foreign power, national security regimes, third restructuring, muralist movement Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Latin America, United States, New York, Central America, Costa Rica, South America, Buenos Aires, Soviet Union, World War, Mexico City, Third World, World Bank, Spanish America, United Nations, National Guard, Christian Democrats, Western Hemisphere, Great Britain, Monroe Doctrine, North American, Santa Anna, Catholic Church, Fidel Castro, Sáo Paulo, Dominican Republic New!
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Latin America is among the largest world culture regions with an area of 20.5 million sq km (7.9 million sq mi), more than double the size of the United States. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
counterrevolutionary regimes, dominant foreign power, national security regimes, third restructuring, muralist movement Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Latin America, United States, New York, Central America, Costa Rica, South America, Buenos Aires, Soviet Union, World War, Mexico City, Third World, World Bank, Spanish America, United Nations, National Guard, Christian Democrats, Western Hemisphere, Great Britain, Monroe Doctrine, North American, Santa Anna, Catholic Church, Fidel Castro, Sáo Paulo, Dominican Republic New!
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- Playa Giron: Bay of Pigs : Washington's First Military Defeat in the Americas by Fidel Castro on 5 pages
- North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) by Canada on 4 pages
- Nicaragua Without Illusions: Regime Transition and Structural Adjustment in the 1990s (Latin American Silhouettes) by Thomas W. Walker on 4 pages
- The Latin American Economies: A Study of Their Institutional Evolution by William P. Glade in Front Matter, page 157, and page 159
- United States Penetration of Brazil by Jan K. Black on page 230, page 605, and Back Matter
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- Como Mejorar la Educacion (Spanish Edition) by Claudio de Moura Castro on page 34, and page 142
- The Politics of Latin American Development by Gary W. Wynia on page 22
- Afro-Creole: Power, Opposition, and Play in the Caribbean by Richard D.E. Burton in Back Matter
- Crime and Violence in Latin America: Citizen Security, Democracy, and the State (Woodrow Wilson Center Press) by Joseph S. Tulchin on page 255
- Trouble in Paradise: Globalization and Environmental Crises in Latin America by J. Timmons Roberts in Back Matter
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