The Cambridge History of Latin America: Volume 11

by Leslie Bethell (Editor)

• New

  Hardcover
  1995

  $325.02

  Volume XI contains bibliographical essays from the complete Cambridge History of Latin America, Volumes I-X. It will be the definitive bibliographic reference for scholars of Latin America in the European era. It is the first authoritative large-scale history of the whole of Latin America from the first contacts between the native peoples of the Americas and Europeans in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries to the present day. A major work of collaborative international scholarship, this History has been planned, co-ordinated and edited by a single editor, Leslie Bethell.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1995

  $38.06

  Part 1 covers population growth and the economies of Latin American states from the Depression to 1990.

• New

  Hardcover
  2008

  $201.65

  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. Each chapter is accompanied by a bibliographical essay. Volume 9: Brazil since 1930 is the final volume of the 12 volume History to be published. It examines the profound political, economic, and social changes experienced by Brazil in the 70 years from 1930 to the present day. Part I consists of four chapters on politics in Brazil: 1930-45, 1945-64, 1964-85, and 1985-2002. Part II consists of three chapters on the Brazilian economy: 1930-80, 1980-94, and 1994-2004, and one chapter on social continuity and social change in Brazil from 1930 to 2000.