Americas : Born in Blood and Fire A Concise History of Latin America
Modern Latin America, Sixth Edition | 
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 A bit leaning
It wasn't exactly what I was looking for, but was still informative and entertaining until about the last 30-40 pages when he started leaning left until he rolled of the hill and onto the floor.
 My Most Interesting Class as An Undergraduate Included this book as assigned reading...
I could not believe this book was real. It was written so well and it was so engrossing that I could NOT put it down. I remember reading the chapters before our professor assigned them.
It remains one of my favorite history books of all time and I can't wait to read Professor Chasteen's newest Book Americanos.Americanos: Latin America's Struggle for Independence (Pivotal Moments in World History)
This book opened up the question of Why we really study history and what makes history interesting. It relates first hand accounts of people from Latin American and gives the reader insight into the feelings of the bitterness and the struggles.
Concepts of hegemony and true patriotism are discussed at length and the chapters cover the years quite evenly.
Thanks again for a great job and wonderful read.
 Not what I expected.
Upon first learning of the book I thought I would enjoy this read. Perhaps I expected too much, but it was a letdown in my opinion. I did not enjoy this book because it seemed too broad. I understand that the author is trying to put all of Latin America in one book but I believe he falls short in all parts of it.I did find it as a decent place to start, but it was not much better nor more informative than simply learning about Latin American Hisitory [...]. Over all i would recommend this book for middleschool or highschool students interested in learning Latin American History; any other readers might be dissapointed with the read.
Satisfactory, I guess...
I used this book as a text for my summer school Latin American Studies class. For high school kids, and for a 3-week course, it's a satisfactory cursory look over Latin American history. It breaks everything down into thematic chronology, giving each epoch of history some sort of label: "Post-Colonial Blues," "Neo-Imperialism," etc.
My only real complaint about the book is that the narrative tends to diverge on a consistent basis, as if someone was telling you a story, gets caught up in an aside, and then suddenly remembers that they were talking to you about something else. Also, the information seems somewhat mashed together, with little explanation of who the people he is talking about are, and why they are important.
An interesting read, but there are better books on the subject out there. I recommend Marshall C. Eakin's "The History of Latin America: Collision of Cultures" instead.
Good
This is a good book. I read it for my class. So far, I like it. As the title says, the book presents a "concise" historical account of Latin America--from Havana to Ushuais, from Lima to Rio de Janeiro. I'd recommend it to anyone interested in Latin America.
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