Product Description: Joaquim Nabuco, for more than three decades a dominant figure in the literary, intellectual and political life of Brazil, was born in Recife in the country's Northeast in 1849 and died in Washington in 1910. He was what we would now call a public intellectual, indeed given that he spent half his adult life in Europe and the United States a trans-national public intellectual and from a country on the periphery of the world system...read more

Product Description: The Cambridge History of Latin America, the first large-scale authoritative survey of Latin American history from ca. 1500 to the present day, is a work of international collaborative scholarship. It aims to provide a high-level synthesis of existing knowledge in chapters written by leading scholars in their fields...read more

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Product Description: Latin America: Politics and Society Since 1930 brings together chapters from Part 2 of Volume VI of The Cambridge History of Latin America to provide a thorough account of recent political movements in Latin America. This will be useful for both teachers and students of Latin American history and of contemporary Latin America...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Cambridge History of Latin America is a large scale, collaborative, multi-volume history of Latin America spanning the five hundred years between the late fifteenth century and the present. Latin America: Economy and Society since 1930 brings together chapters from Parts 1 and 2 of Volume VI of The Cambridge History to provide a complete survey of the Latin American economies since 1930...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Argentina Since Independence brings together seven chapters from Volumes 3, 5, and 8 of The Cambridge History of Latin America to provide in a single volume an economic, social, and political history of Argentina since independence. Each chapter is accompanied by a bibliographical essay. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: This volume aims to establish that the period between World War II and the beginning of the Cold War (1944-5 to 1947-8) represents an important conjuncture in the political and social history of Latin America in the twentieth century...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Essays discuss Venezuela, Colombia, the Andean lands, and the countries of the Southern Cone since the Depression

Mexico Since Independence brings together six chapters from Volumes III, V and VII of the Cambridge History of Latin America to provide in a single volume an economic, social and political history of Mexico since independence from Spain in 1821. This, it is hoped, will be useful for both teachers and students of Latin American history. Each chapter is accompanied by a bibliographical essay. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Combines chapters from Volumes III, V and VII of the "Cambridge History of Latin America" to provide an economic, social and political history of Central America since independence from Spain (and Mexico) in 1821-23.

Essays discuss Mexico, Central America, and the islands of the Caribbean since the Depression

Product Description: A selection of chapters from volume IV of the "Cambridge History of Latin America". Topics discussed include the economy, population growth, the impact of capitalist penetration of the countryside, growth and modernization of cities, the growth of an urban working class, and the Catholic Church...read more

The complete Cambridge History of Latin America presents a large-scale authoritative survey of Latin America's unique historical experience from the first contact between Indians and Europeans at the end of the fifteenth century to the present day. Brazil: Empire and Republic, 1822-1930 is a selection of five chapters from volumes III and IV - three on the Empire (1822-89) and two on the First Republic (1889-1930) - brought together to provide a continuous history of Brazil from independence in 1822 to the Revolution of 1930. A chapter on the separation of Brazil from Portugal (1808-22) forms an introduction to the volume and a link with Colonial Brazil, a collection of chapters drawn from volumes I and II of the Cambridge History of Latin America. Bibliography essays are included for all chapters. The book will be a valuable text for both teachers and students of Latin American history. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: The complete Cambridge History of Latin America presents a large-scale, authoritative survey of Latin America's unique historical experience from the first contacts between the native American Indians and Europeans to the 1980's. First published in 1987, Spanish America after Independence c...read more

Colonial Brazil is a selection of chapters from the Cambridge History of Latin America volumes 1 and 2 brought together to provide a continous history of the Portuguese Empire in Brazil from the beginning of the sixteenth to the beginning of the nineteenth centuries. The chapters cover early Portuguese settlement, political and economic structures, plantations and slavery, the gold rushes, the impact of colonial rule on Indian societies, imperial reorganization in the eighteenth century, and demographic and economic change during the final decades of the empire. (view table of contents)