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Title: Latin America: A Concise Interpretive History (7th Edition) by E. Bradford Burns, Julie A. Charlip ISBN: 0-13-019576-6 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 19 October, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: worst history book I've ever tried
Comment: This book seems like it was written by an 8th grader. Disorganized, it often presents an incongruous or dislocated sentence at the end of a paragraph leaves me wondering "what?" Inconsistent and often juvenile. He skips around and uses words that are not defined, unless maybe you are already a Latin American history buff. I am taking this for a college course and wish I wasn't taking the course just because of this text!
Rating: 5
Summary: Perhaps the best current 1-vol. survey of its subject.
Comment: The late E. Bradford Burns was one of the most versatile historians of Latin America, and this book contains the fruits of his 30+ years of research and teaching. All textbook surveys require choices of content and emphasis, but here Burns's have resulted in a superior volume. His is an interpretive and thematic perspective, permitting an integrated approach to the entire continent. This works better than having discrete chapters on specific countries, which may or may not be the focus of a particular course or single reader. Burns stresses the importance of the region's institutions in shaping its history, and gives due attention to the 19th century, often a "forgotten century" compared with the 16th or 20th. A central organizing theme is the struggle between elites and folk communities, a continuous factor in the continent's history. As a Brazilianist, Burns gives better coverage of that major country than does any other text, without slighting Spanish America. The author's prose, while not exactly scintillating, is clear and readable, and his quietly humanistic values further heighten our interest. Drawbacks: reduced coverage of pre-19th century period; little citation of primary sources; and a perfunctory stab at incorporating work on women's history. Nevertheless, this is a superb text for any university course on Modern Latin America or Latin America Since Independence, and I found that it works very well in my own classes. Having canvassed all the major texts (which have many merits of their own), I recommend this as the finest within the inevitable limits of any one-volume work.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent Source
Comment: Used this book as textbook in advanced (IB) History of the Americas; very authoritative and complete, must say one of the clearest books I've seen on this subject; a definitive narrative of Latin American history.
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Title: Latin America: Conflict And Creation, A Historical Reader by E. Bradford Burns ISBN: 0135262607 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 19 August, 1992 List Price(USD): $52.00 |
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Title: Women in Mexico : A Past Unveiled by Julia Tuñón Pablos, Alan Hynds ISBN: 029278161X Publisher: Univ of Texas Press Pub. Date: 1999 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Sandino's Daughters Revisited: Feminism in Nicaragua by Margaret Randall ISBN: 0813520258 Publisher: Rutgers University Press Pub. Date: March, 1994 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: Introducing Liberation Theology by Leonardo Boff, Clodovis Boff, Paul Burns ISBN: 0883445506 Publisher: Orbis Books Pub. Date: July, 1987 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The General in His Labyrinth by Garcia Marques, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Edith Grossman ISBN: 0140148590 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: September, 1991 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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