Table of Contents

Preface to the 2005 Edition

Preface to the First Edition

1. A View from the South

2. Legacies of Empire

3. The Perils of Progress

4. A Second Independence?

5. Capital Sins

6. Continent on the Move

7. Children of the Sun

8. A Question of Color

9. In Women’s Hands

10. The Power and the Glory

11. The Magical and the Real

12. Endangered States

13. Making Revolution

14. North of the Border

Epilogue: Latin America and the Caribbean
in the Twenty-First Century

Illustration Credits

Notes

Index

About the Author

Peter Winn is Professor of Latin American History and Director of Latin American Studies at Tufts University and a senior research associate at Columbia University's Institute of Latin American Studies. He was academic director of the PBS series Americas: Latin America and the Caribbean, for which the first edition of this book was a companion volume.

Reviews

"Rare is the book in English that provides a general overview of Latin America and the Caribbean. Rarer still is the good, topical, and largely dispassionate book that contributes to a better understanding of the rest of the hemisphere. Peter Winn, a Tufts University professor, has managed to produce both."--Don Bohning, "Miami Herald