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Twisted roots : Latin America's living past / Carlos Alberto Montaner ; translated by Louis Aguilar and Marilu del Toro.
Van Pelt Library F1410 .M717513 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Montaner, Carlos Alberto.
- Standardized Title:
- Raíces torcidas de América Latina. English
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Social conflict--Latin America--History.
- Social conflict.
- Legitimacy of governments--Latin America--History.
- Legitimacy of governments.
- History.
- Latin America--History.
- Latin America.
- Physical Description:
- 190 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Algora Pub., [2003]
- Summary:
- A Cuban/Spanish journalist and author examines the historical and cultural influences that shaped Latin America and suggests how they have made it into the most impoverished, unstable and backward region in the Western world.
- Contents:
- A suspicious origin : fraud, sophisms, and other theological and judicial traps
- One state to the dissatisfaction of all
- Blacks in a persistently racist society
- Sex, sexism, and gender roles
- An economy twisted at birth
- "Let others invent!"
- Caudillos, Montoneros, guerrillas, and liberals and conservatives
- An escape from the labyrinth.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-185) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0875862616
- 0875862608
- 0875862039
- OCLC:
- 53002655
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