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This new history examines the experiences of people from the Spanish and Portuguese - speaking areas of Latin America and the Caribbean from the onset of independence in the late 18th century until the present. With compelling prose, the book illustrates and analyzes the large and small events that make up history, the triumphs and defeats, and the work and everyday lives of men and women from many classes, racial, and ethnic backgrounds.Some of the broad themes of Latin American history - modernization, dependency, revolution, neo - liberalism - are constantly challenged by attention to the area's diversity. By interspersing accounts of the lives of the prominent and well - known with the commonplace, this history enriches the master narrative with the stories of ordinary people. In particular, the book addresses gender and its influence on political and economic change, as well as gender's role as the playing field of cultural identity.
"Nothing is more important than to communicate up-to-datescholarship to students in a lucid and reasonable manner. It seemsto me that [this] textbook is remarkably successful in both theserespects." (British historian, Eric J Hobsbawn,1 October 2012)
"Teresa Meade's A History of Modern Latin Americabrings a new approach to introducing students to theregion. Using exciting themes like class, gender andethnicity, she compares and contrasts places and peoples, some wellknown and others less familiar. In doing so Meade makes connectionsbetween events that are often ignored, showing readers that historyis not simply hero worship and that historians are not simplydocument readers."
Jeffrey Lesser, Emory University
"Clearly written, conceptually accessible, comprehensive, andbroad in scope, Teresa Meade's text is an excellentalternative for survey courses on Latin America. Meade bothreflects recent conceptual innovations in the field, and provides aconsistent and comprehensive narrative and periodization. Not onlywill this text provide a reliable guide for undergraduates, butprofessors will also find themselves stimulated to rethink theirown assumptions about the main issues in the field. I heartilyrecommend it."
Florencia E. Mallon, Julieta Kirkwood Professor of History,University of Wisconsin-Madison
"This is the rare history of modern Latin America that doesjustice to the crucial political and economic trends of the lasttwo centuries while exploring in-depth the social and culturalaspects of Latin American societies."
Barbara Weinstein, New York University
"Teresa Meade's A History of Modern Latin Americabrings a new approach to introducing students to theregion. Using exciting themes like class, gender andethnicity, she compares and contrasts places and peoples, some wellknown and others less familiar. In doing so Meade makes connectionsbetween events that are often ignored, showing readers that historyis not simply hero worship and that historians are not simplydocument readers."
Jeffrey Lesser, Emory University
"Clearly written, conceptually accessible, comprehensive, andbroad in scope, Teresa Meade's text is an excellentalternative for survey courses on Latin America. Meade bothreflects recent conceptual innovations in the field, and provides aconsistent and comprehensive narrative and periodization. Not onlywill this text provide a reliable guide for undergraduates, butprofessors will also find themselves stimulated to rethink theirown assumptions about the main issues in the field. I heartilyrecommend it."
Florencia E. Mallon, Julieta Kirkwood Professor of History,University of Wisconsin-Madison
"This is the rare history of modern Latin America that doesjustice to the crucial political and economic trends of the lasttwo centuries while exploring in-depth the social and culturalaspects of Latin American societies."
Barbara Weinstein, New York University