Faces of Latin America / Duncan Green with Sue Branford.

Author
Green, Duncan [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
4th edition.
Published/​Created
  • New York : Monthly Review Press, [2013]
  • ©2013
Description
272 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm

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    "Faces of Latin America" is widely considered to be the best available introduction in English to the economies, politics, demography, social structures, environment, and cultures of Latin America. This new edition is thoroughly updated and covers recent developments in Latin America such as the growing costs of export agriculture, the rise of Brazilian manufacturing, connections between the war on drugs and the war on terror, the social costs of neoliberalism, the Argentinian default, the search for new economic models in Venezuela and elsewhere, the decline in direct U.S. military intervention in the region, growing urbanization, urban poverty and casual employment, outmigration and the importance of family remittances from abroad, rampant environmental destruction, the struggles of indigenous movements, and more. -- From publisher's description.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Map of Latin America and the Caribbean
    • 1. The curse of wealth : economics
    • History and power
    • The commodity trade
    • Silent revolution : market economics
    • 2. Ballots and bullets : the state, the military, and politics
    • The state and the military
    • The Left in Latin America
    • 3. Land, the city, and environment
    • Promised land : landownership, power, and conflict
    • Mean streets : migration and life in the city
    • A land in flames : the environment
    • 4. Identity and rights
    • Race and ethnicity
    • Gender and politics
    • Social movements and the struggle for change
    • 5. Culture and religion
    • Writing on the wall : culture, identity, and politics
    • Thy kingdom come : the Church
    • Chronologies.
    ISBN
    • 9781583673249 ((paper ; : alkaline paper))
    • 1583673245 ((paper ; : alkaline paper))
    • 9781583673256 ((cloth ; : alkaline paper))
    • 1583673253 ((cloth ; : alkaline paper))
    LCCN
    2012041632
    OCLC
    818293268
    Other standard number
    • 40021751960
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