regional and national specificity. This unique volume provides an interpretive history of Modern Latin America with a focus on the central dynamic of Latin American history—the enigma of poor people inhabiting rich lands. The Seventh Edition has been updated and modernized to reflect recent research, interpretations and developments. This volume addresses the origins of a multiracial society, the institutions of empire, independence, the emergence of the modern state, new actors on an old stage, world war to cold war issues, the revolutionary option and modern problems. For Historians and those interested in a concise analysis of Latin American history.

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