A History of Modern Latin America - Softcover

Clayton, Lawrence A.; Conniff, Michael L.

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9780155002531: A History of Modern Latin America

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0155002538 ISBN 13: 9780155002531

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 1980

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Written specifically for students unfamiliar with Latin American history, this comprehensive narrative introduction spans from the early nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth century. The authors present main theories and analyses of the area's history, expertly weaving biographical sketches into the narrative. "Action-introductions" begin each chapter, offering short glimpses into moments in history and setting the theme for the chapter to follow. Maps, images, bibliographies, discussion questions, and other pedagogical elements are strategically placed throughout to help students move beyond the introductory level and engage in research assignments, papers, and so on.

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The text is comprehensive in terms of themes treated and in its overall reach.

Second, it is extremely well written, lively and accessible and appealing to students.

�The text?s� major strength lies in two areas in comparison to its competition. First, it is a fully comprehensive, region by region, country by country chronological survey which successfully meets the instructor's demands for coverage and completeness. Second, it is extremely well written, lively and accessible and appealing to students.

�The text's� major strength lies in two areas in comparison to its competition. First, it is a fully comprehensive, region by region, country by country chronological survey which successfully meets the instructor's demands for coverage and completeness. Second, it is extremely well written, lively and accessible and appealing to students.

[The texts] major strength lies in two areas in comparison to its competition. First, it is a fully comprehensive, region by region, country by country chronological survey which successfully meets the instructors demands for coverage and completeness. Second, it is extremely well written, lively and accessible and appealing to students.

[The text's] major strength lies in two areas in comparison to its competition. First, it is a fully comprehensive, region by region, country by country chronological survey which successfully meets the instructor's demands for coverage and completeness. Second, it is extremely well written, lively and accessible and appealing to students.

[The textas] major strength lies in two areas in comparison to its competition. First, it is a fully comprehensive, region by region, country by country chronological survey which successfully meets the instructoras demands for coverage and completeness. Second, it is extremely well written, lively and accessible and appealing to students.

[The text?s] major strength lies in two areas in comparison to its competition. First, it is a fully comprehensive, region by region, country by country chronological survey which successfully meets the instructor's demands for coverage and completeness. Second, it is extremely well written, lively and accessible and appealing to students.

About the Author:

Lawrence A. Clayton attended Duke University (BA, 1964) and earned his MA (1969) and PhD (1972) at Tulane University in Latin American History. From 1964 1966 he served as an officer in the US Navy on the USS Donner (LSD-20), cruising both in the Caribbean and the Mediterranean with the 6th Fleet. He was on the faculty of the University of Alabama from 1972 2013, before retiring in 2013. His specialties focused on Latin American history and the history of the Christian church, and he directed the Latin American Studies Program (1980 1992), and acted as Chair of the Department of History (2000 2007) and Interim Chair (2009 2010). He also held two Senior Fulbright Lecturing Awards, one in 1983 to Costa Rica, and one in 1988 to Peru, lecturing at the University of Costa Rica and the University of Lima respectively. In 1983 he served as President of the South Eastern Council on Latin American Studies, and in 1999 held a year-long Pew Evangelical Scholars Fellowship. His publications include Alabama and the Borderlands: From Prehistory to Statehood (1985), Grace: W. R. Grace and Co., The Formative Years, 1850 1930 (1985), The Hispanic Experience in North America: Sources for Study in the United States (1992), The DeSoto Chronicles (1993, prize-winning), A History of Modern Latin America (2nd edition, 2005), Peru and the United States: The Condor and the Eagle (1999) and Bartolome de las Casas and the Conquest of the Americas (2011). Three of his books have been translated and published in Peru and Ecuador. He is presently engaged in writing a book, The Battle for Cuba: Air War over the Bay of Pigs, April 1961, and is working on the script to a new movie on the Doolittle R.

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