Latin American Civilization

The central theme of the text is Latin Americas economic dependency on European powers and the United States, and its struggle for liberation from dependency and its consequences: social decline, mass poverty, and corrupt, arbitrary governments.. The seventh edition of this classic book of readings combines the best of the previous collections with new material on modern developments, including a mounting debt crisis in Latin America coupled with the failure of neoliberal economics, recent government setbacks versus guerillas in Colombia, and governmental struggles in Mexico, Argentina, Venezuela, and Brazil. 0813334020 Essays in the Intellectual History of Colonial Latin America 0813341108 Keen's Latin American Civilization : History and Society, 1492 to the Present Eighth Edition