Overview

Fully updated for the new 2nd edition, ""Contemporary Latin America"" provides a concise introduction to the region written in an accessible and student-friendly style by a well-known authority. A brief introduction to the historical context, the countries and their peoples provides a backdrop to broad-ranging coverage of contemporary politics, political economy, society and culture and of the prospects of the continent in a changing world.

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'Thoroughly updated throughout with an entirely new chapter on the dramatic political developments of the early 21st century, this is an engaging and well-written introduction by one of the leading specialists on Latin America - Ronald Chilcote, University of California, Riverside.

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RONALDO MUNCK is Theme Leader: Internationalization, Interculturalism and Social Development in the President's Office, Dublin City University, and Visiting Professor of Political Sociology, University of Liverpool, UK.

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