The Penguin Historical past Of Latin America: New Version

Now totally up to date to 2009, this acclaimed historical past of Latin America tells its turbulent story from Columbus to Chavez. Starting with the Spanish and Portugese conquests of the New World, it takes in centuries of upheaval, revolution and modernization as much as the current day, wanting intimately at Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, Chile and Cuba, and provides an outline of the cultural developments which have made Latin America a supply of fascination for the world.

‘A primary-rate work of historical past … His cool, scholarly gaze and synthesizing intelligence demystify part of the world peculiarly liable to myth-making … This ebook covers an infinite quantity of floor, geographically and culturally’ Tony Gould, Unbiased on Sunday