Twisted Roots [electronic resource] : Latin America's Living Past

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Montaner, Carlos Alberto.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social conflict.

Local Subjects:

Social conflict.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (204 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Algora Publishing, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Examining the historical and cultural influences that have shaped Latin America, this syndicated international journalist and author suggests that they have made it into the most impoverished, unstable and backward region in the Western world.""An indispen

Contents:

Table of Contents; A Few Words; 1. A Suspicious Origin: Fraud, Sophisms, and Other Theological and Judicial Traps; 2. One State to the Dissatisfaction of All; 3. Blacks in a Persistently Racist Society; 4. Sex, Sexism, and Gender Roles; 5. An Economy Twisted At Birth; 6. "Let Other People Do the Inventing!"; 7. Caudillos, Montoneros, Guerillas, And Liberals And Conservatives; 8. Escape From The Labyrinth; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

0-87586-203-9

OCLC:

123113484