History of Modern Latin America (eBook)

Teresa A. Meade is Florence B. Sherwood Professor of History and Culture at Union College, New York. She is the author of "Civilizing" Rio: Reform and Resistance in a Brazilian City (1997), A Brief History of Brazil, 2nd edition (2009), and co-editor of the Blackwell Companion to Gender History (2004) and Science, Medicine and Cultural Imperialism (1991). She has written widely on Latin America, and on women and gender history.

"In sum, an engaging text based on recent interpretations that will
appeal to those who appreciate a conceptual and topical approach to
Latin American history. Recommended. All levels/libraries."
(Choice, 1 March 2011)



"Nothing is more important than to communicate up-to-date
scholarship to students in a lucid and reasonable manner. It seems
to me that [this] textbook is remarkably successful in both these
respects." (British historian, Eric J Hobsbawn,
1 October 2012)

"Teresa Meade's A History of Modern Latin
America brings a new approach to introducing students to
the region. Using exciting themes like class, gender, and
ethnicity, she compares and contrasts places and peoples, some well
known and others less familiar. In doing so Meade makes connections
between events that are often ignored, showing readers that history
is not simply hero worship and that historians are not simply
document readers."

--Jeffrey Lesser, Emory University

"Clearly written, conceptually accessible, comprehensive, and
broad in scope, Teresa Meade's text is an excellent
alternative for survey courses on Latin America. Meade both
reflects recent conceptual innovations in the field, and provides a
consistent and comprehensive narrative and periodization. Not only
will this text provide a reliable guide for undergraduates, but
professors will also find themselves stimulated to rethink their
own assumptions about the main issues in the field. I heartily
recommend it."

--Florencia E. Mallon, Julieta Kirkwood Professor
of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison

"This is the rare history of modern Latin America that does
justice to the crucial political and economic trends of the last
two centuries while exploring in depth the social and cultural
aspects of Latin American societies."

--Barbara Weinstein, New York University