List of Maps, Figures and Tables vii
Series Editor’s Preface viii
Acknowledgments x
Part I Latin America in a World Setting 1
Introduction 3
1 What Is Latin America? 5
2 Beliefs 20
Part II Government 41
Introduction 43
3 The Demise of Social Revolution 48
4 The Armed Forces Bow to Civilian Rule 67
5 The Turning toward Democracy 97
6 Religion, Politics and the State 113
7 Lawless Violence, Impunity and the Democratic Transition 127
Part III Wealth 143
Introduction 145
8 The Challenge of Sustained Growth 148
9 Poor Countries, Rich Countries 161
10 Agonies of Underdevelopment 185
Part IV Culture 207
Introduction 209
11 Education 211
12 Research and Communications 225
13 Literature and the Visual Arts 249
14 Cinema and Sports 263
Part V Communities 275
Introduction 277
15 The Family, Women and Sexuality 281
16 Indigenous Peoples and Their Movements 304
17 Toward a Latin American Community of Nations? 322
Sources Consulted 332
Index 342
Robert H. Holden teaches Latin American history at OldDominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. He is the author of,among others, Armies without Nations: Public Violence and StateFormation in Central America, 1821 1960 (2004) andco-editor of Latin America and the United States: A DocumentaryHistory (with Eric Zolov, 2010), and has written numerousscholarly articles. Rina Villars is the author of three books in Spanish on thehistory and political culture of Central America, and of scholarlyarticles on Spanish linguistics and women.
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