Born in Blood and Fire: Latin American Voices - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393283062 ISBN 13: 9780393283068

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2016

Synopsis

The companion reader to the most readable, highly regarded, and affordable history of Latin America for our times.

A thematic anthology of primary sources for Latin American social and cultural history, the Second Edition reader complements the table of contents of Born in Blood and Fire, Fourth Edition, and draws on newspapers, novels, magazines, and journals―many translated by Chasteen himself―to present compelling narrative accounts of life and society across Latin American history.

About this title

About the Author:

John Charles Chasteen is Professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the highly acclaimed translator of Tulio Halperín Donghi’s The Contemporary History of Latin America. He is also the author of Heroes on Horseback: The Life and Times of the Last Gaucho Caudillos; National Rhythms, African Roots: The Deep History of Latin American Popular Dance; and Americanos: Latin
America’s Struggle for Independence.

John Charles Chasteen is Professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the highly acclaimed translator of Tulio Halperín Donghi’s The Contemporary History of Latin America. He is also the author of Heroes on Horseback: The Life and Times of the Last Gaucho Caudillos; National Rhythms, African Roots: The Deep History of Latin American Popular Dance; and Americanos: Latin
America’s Struggle for Independence.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0393283062
• ISBN 13: 9780393283068
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Chasteen John Charles