The History of Latin America: Collision of Cultures (Palgrave Essential Histories Series)

This narrative history of Latin America surveys five centuries in less than five hundred pages. The first third of the book moves from the Americas before Columbus to the wars for independence in the early nineteenth century. The construction of new nations and peoples in the nineteenth century forms the middle third, and the final section analyzes economic development, rising political participation, and the search of identity over the last century. The collision of peoples and cultures--Native Americans, Europeans, Africans--that defines Latin America, and gives it both its unity and diversity, provides the central theme of this concise, synthetic history.

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• Resilient Cultures: America's Native Peoples Confront European Colonialization 1500-1800
• Forgotten Continent: A History of the New Latin America
• 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
• The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492, 30th Anniversary Edition
• Winds of Change: Hurricanes and the Transformation of Nineteenth-Century Cuba
• Resilient Cultures: America's Native Peoples Confront European Colonization, 1500-1800
• The Underdogs: with Related Texts (Hackett Classics)
• Indian Horse: A Novel
• Evita: The Real Life of Eva Peron