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Title Born in blood and fire : Latin American voices / [compiled by] John Charles Chasteen.

Publication Info. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.
©2016

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 Axe Kansas Collection Harmon  980 B645 2016    ---  Lib Use Only
Edition Second edition.
Description x, 338 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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Note Documentary companion to: Born in blood and fire : a concise history of Latin America.
Contents Chronicles of the encounter -- Colonial transculturation -- A taste of independence -- Creating national identities -- The perils of progress -- Reactions against neocolonialism -- Cultivating non-European roots -- Cold War visions -- Guerrilla warfare -- Speaking for themselves.
Summary A thematic anthology of primary sources for Latin American social and cultural history, this reader draws on newspapers, novels, magazines, and journalsmany translated by Chasteen himselfto present compelling narrative accounts of life and society across Latin American history.--Publisher's description.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Subject Latin America -- History -- Sources.
Latin America. (OCoLC)fst01245945
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Sources. (OCoLC)fst01423900
Added Author Chasteen, John Charles, 1955- compiler.
Chasteen, John Charles, 1955- Born in blood and fire.
Cover Title Born in blood & fire : Latin American voices, a reader
ISBN 9780393283068 (pbk.)
0393283062 (pbk.)

 
    
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