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October 2006

ISBN:
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$19.00 paper

290 pp.

Latin America

FACES OF LATIN AMERICA

Third Edition, Updated and Revised

by Duncan Green

First published in 1991, Faces of Latin America has become the standard introductory text on the region. Widely used in teaching, it is also an accessible book for the general reader or traveler to the region. This edition has been extensively updated and reorganized with new photos, sidebars, charts, and graphs.

Faces of Latin America celebrates the vibrant history and culture of Latin America’s people. Duncan Green takes the reader beyond the conventional media coverage of the drug trade, corrupt politicians and military leaders, death squads, or guerrilla movements familiar to us on the nightly news. Faces of Latin America examines some of the key forces—from conquest and the growth of the commodity trade, military rule, land distribution, industrialization and migration to civil wars, the debt crisis, neoliberalism and NAFTA —shaping the region’s political and social history.

Green also analyzes the response to these transformations—the rise of freedom fighters and populists, guerrilla wars and grassroots social movements, union organizing and trade movements, liberation theology, and the women’s movement, sustainable development and the fight for the rainforest, popular culture and the mass media—providing a fascinating and unparalleled portrait of the continent.

PRAISE FOR PREVIOUS EDITIONS

“A sparkling and elegant primer. Far and away the best overall introduction to the subject.”—History Workshop Journal

“The best introductory book going on Latin America. An invaluable resource.”—International Affairs

“Simple, unpretentious narrative makes this volume an accessible and inviting source for nonspecialists. . . The book achieves its intended purpose.”—Multicultural Review

“A journalistic tour de force with academic worth… Recommended as essential background reading for many an undergraduate course in the Latin American studies area”—Bulletin of Hispanic Studies

Table of Contents

1. The Curse of Wealth: Economics

2. Ballots and Bullets: The State, the Military, and Politics

3. Land, the City, and Environment

4. Identity and Rights

5. Culture and Religion

Conclusion

Chronologies

Further Reading

Index

About the Author
DUNCAN GREEN is Head of Research at Oxfam GB, a development and relief organization. He was previously a senior policy adviser on trade and development at the UK Government’s Department for International Development and a policy analyst on trade and globalization at CAFOD, the Catholic aid agency for England and Wales. He has written widely on economics and Latin America and is the author of Silent Revolution: The Rise and Crisis of Market Economics in Latin America (2nd Ed., 2003) and Hidden Lives: Voices of Children in Latin America and the Caribbean (1988)