Latinoamérica: Presente y pasado

ISBN: 0205794262

Author: PEARSON EDUCATION

• NEW (to the 3rd ed.) - A more comprehensive review of the main cultural areas of Latin America—Coverage of the Hispanic countries of Columbia and Venezuela, the Caribbean and Central America, the Andean region, and the Southern Cone. Helps students build a more realistic view of the entire “Latin American” Region.
• Helps students build a more realistic view of the entire “Latin American” Region.
• Political and economic developments—In the specific Latin American countries. Gives a contemporary perspective.
• Gives a contemporary perspective.
• Written by a native speaker—With three decades of Latin American teaching experience. Ensures that the material and presentation take into account the limitations and capabilities of students, the most accessible linguistic level, and the amount of information a student can reasonably absorb.
• Ensures that the material and presentation take into account the limitations and capabilities of students, the most accessible linguistic level, and the amount of information a student can reasonably absorb.
• Historical and cultural data as factual support—Not as a laundry list of dates and names. Contains all the basic information instructors will need in a survey course on Latin American culture and civilization, but uses the data to illustrate the presence of historical and cultural trends and structures.
• Contains all the basic information instructors will need in a survey course on Latin American culture and civilization, but uses the data to illustrate the presence of historical and cultural trends and structures.
• Flexible organization—The core of the text covering Latin America's pre-Columbian-19th century history, and then 20th century Latin America's main geographic features, ethnic components, significant developments in the realms of politics and economics, and the main intellectual, artistic and literary trends. Further chapters examine modern and contemporary developments country-by-country in such key cultural areas as Central America, Mexico, Haiti, and the Hispanic islands of the Caribbean, the main countries in the central Andean region and nations of South America's southern cone, and the Hispanic population of the United States. Chapters 8 & 9 provide an overview of Latin America Gives instructors the opportunity to select the specific material to be emphasized beyond the basic core.
• Gives instructors the opportunity to select the specific material to be emphasized beyond the basic core.