[PDF] Lands Of Latin America Area Study eBook

Author : Nancy Bostick
Publisher :
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 21,33 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Latin America
ISBN :

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Discusses the geography, history, customs, people, economics, and government of Latin America and briefly examines the origins of United States' interest in Latin American countries.

Author : Educational Research Council of America. Social Science Staff
Publisher :
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 45,26 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Latin America
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Discusses the geography, history, customs, people, economics, and government of Latin America and briefly examines the origins of United States' interest in Latin American countries.

Author : Heidi Hayes Jacobs
Publisher :
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,69 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9780131816497

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Latin America, physical geography -- Latin America, shaped by its history -- Cultures of Latin America -- Mexico and Central America -- The Caribbean -- South America -- Reference section: DK atlas; Glossary of geographic terms; Gazetteer; Glossary.

Author : Stephen Baranyi
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 20,24 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Land reform
ISBN : 1896770673

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Co-published by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC).

Author : Kenneth Duncan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,76 MB
Release : 2009-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521093200

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There has been considerable controversy amongst social and economic historians, anthropologists, economists, sociologists, political scientists and other specialists concerning the nature and structure of Latin American agrarian society. An increasing number of studies have come to challenge the traditionally accepted view that the backwardness of rural Latin America and its resistance to 'modernisation' are due to the persistence of feudal or non-feudal forms of social and economic organisation. Instead attention has shifted to an examination of the social and economic dislocations resulting from attempts to impose capitalist forms of agrarian enterprise on peasant or pre-capitalist societies. This book of essays by an international group of scholars represents a substantial empirical contribution to the ongoing debate. This book will be of interest not only to specialists in the field, but also to anyone wishing to understand the historical processes underlying contemporary Latin America's complex land tenure and rural employment problems.

Author : Robert B. Kent
Publisher : Guilford Publications
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 50,49 MB
Release : 2016-02-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1462525520

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Popular among students for its engaging, accessible style, this text provides an authoritative overview of Latin America's human geography as well as its regional complexity. Extensively revised to reflect the region's ongoing evolution in the first decades of the 21st century, the second edition's alternating thematic and regional chapters trace Latin America's historical development while revealing the diversity of its people and places. Coverage encompasses cultural history, environment and physical geography, urban development, agriculture and land use, social and economic processes, and the contemporary patterns of the Latin American diaspora. Pedagogical features include vivid topical vignettes, end-of-chapter recommended readings and other resources, and 217 photographs, maps, and figures. New to This Edition *Discussions of climate change and its impacts, the demise of the Monroe doctrine, neoliberal agriculture, the growing influence of Chinese investment, and other new topics. *13 new vignettes highlighting current issues such as the thaw in United States-Cuba relations, drug violence in Mexico, aerial gondolas in the Andes, and the first Latin pope. *Annotated website and film recommendations for most chapters. *The latest development trends, population and economic data, and current events of local and global significance. *26 new photographs, maps, and figures.