Problems in Modern Latin American History: Sources and Interpretations (Latin American Silhouettes) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1442218592 ISBN 13: 9781442218598

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2013

Synopsis

Now in its fourth edition, this leading reader has been updated to tighten the focus of each chapter on a major interpretive problem. This edition includes an entirely new chapter, “Historical Memory,” which allows readers to revisit the era of the Cold War from a contemporary perspective, and the chapters on nationalism and globalization have been thoroughly revised. The book continues to offer a rich variety of materials that can be tailored to the needs of individual instructors.

The reader’s unique and successful chapter organization provides a thematic complement to narrative accounts of modern Latin American history. By focusing each chapter on a single concept or interpretive problem—such as nationalism, women’s rights, or social revolution—the text engages students in the analysis of historical sources and, at the same time, introduces them to the twists and turns of historiography. Each chapter in this new edition includes at least two primary sources. With its innovative combination of primary and secondary sources and editorial analysis, this text is designed specifically to stimulate critical thinking in a wide range of courses on Latin American history since independence.

About this title

About the Author:

James A. Wood is associate professor of Latin American history at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro.

Review:

Problems in Modern Latin American History provides a delightfully diverse collection of primary sources mixed with scholarly analyses. This potent combination offers an ideal means of instructing students in historical interpretation and historiographical criticism. James Wood helps instructors and their students focus on vital selected problems, thus avoiding the usual pedestrian compilation of factoids. Students can explore a range of often-conflicting views of important problems and gain experience in constructing and critiquing historical interpretations, not regurgitating minutiae. My students have responded with high-level critical thinking, because the readings challenge rather than bore. I've used the book since the first edition with excellent results in both classroom and online courses. (Richard W. Slatta, North Carolina State University)

For twenty years, Problems in Modern Latin American History has been of inestimable value to undergraduates and their instructors. James A. Wood has made the new edition fully his own, incorporating new areas of interest into the volume’s wide-ranging thematic coverage and updating the text for a new generation of students. Among the notable results is that Problems, entering its third decade, remains as vital a resource as it was at the dawn of its first. (James Woodard, Montclair State University)

About this edition

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1442218592
• ISBN 13: 9781442218598
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 278
• Editor: Wood James A.