The Human Tradition in Modern Latin America (The Human Tradition around the World series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0842026134 ISBN 13: 9780842026130

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1997

Synopsis

SR Books' two popular Human Tradition in Latin America titles covering nineteenth- and twentieth-century history have been combined into one exciting new volume. The most compelling chapters from these books are now presented in The Human Tradition in Modern Latin America. This collection offers powerful, fascinating biographies of ordinary people caught in the sometimes devastating historical changes that have occurred in Latin America. From the turbulent struggles for independence in the 1800s to the profound and often overwhelming transformations that have accompanied modernization in this century, The Human Tradition in Modern Latin America personalizes the impact that revolution, economic upheaval, urbanization, the destruction of community life, and the disruption of both traditional family and gender roles have had on Latin Americans.

The Human Tradition in Modern Latin America is an invaluable text for courses in Latin American studies. Nowhere else can such varied portraits be found as in these diverse and carefully researched essays written by leading scholars.

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Review:

This well-researched and well-written book is good reading and offers new insights into Latin America. (Daily Press, Newport News, Virginia)

Praise for The Human Tradition in Latin America: The Nineteenth Century. A useful resource for anyone interested in Latin American studies, [and] especially suited as a supplementary resource for advanced undergraduate courses in modern Latin America. (CHOICE)

This book can put the flesh and bones into social history. It reveals people not as pawns . . . but as active participants in history, struggling with the weight of the past, responding to the challenges of the future. (Ethnohistory)

Praise for The Human Tradition in Latin America: The Twentieth Century. This collection of life stories of 'ordinary' people from twentieth-century Latin America is an invaluable tool for teaching and a thick bundle of ideas for research... (American Historical Review)

About this edition

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0842026134
• ISBN 13: 9780842026130
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 277
• Editor: Beezley William H., Ewell Judith