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Comprehensive Content
Customers are highly impressed with the comprehensive content of The Penguin History of Latin America, praising its extensive coverage of various aspects of Latin American history from pre-European arrival to around 1900. Some suggest a few chapters could be shorter and more concise, but overall, they find it an invaluable resource for understanding the region's complex history.
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Quality
We purchased the book used and the quality was great!
Excellent product and excellent seller, a real asset for amazon
Weak states “derived from the peculiar deficiencies of the state in the new world.
Eschewing the campy marxist and the de rigeur post-constructionist "theories of exploitation," williamson cuts to the chase wit... Read More
Price
It was a very good price for my latin american history class.
Anyway for a ggod job i am ready to pay.
Packaging/appearance
Arrived in outstanding condition, despite what the listed was.
Competitiveness
Finally, he covers the largest economies in more detail: mexico, brazil, argentina and chile.
Latin american governments found themselves between “the high spending required to improve living standards” and the various an... Read More
He explains the social forces (burgeoning middle class, growing trade unions, urbanization, over-reliance on agricultural expor... Read More
The similarities are striking, but key differences are highlighted.
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latin, american, good, economic and many. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
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- Our engine has discovered that over 90% high quality reviews are present.
- This product had a total of 273 reviews as of our last analysis date on Nov 3 2024.
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Despite its long history latin america as a whole has yet to find a reliable road to political stability and economic prosperity at least an economic prosperity more evenly distributed
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After 1945 according to professor williamson “it proved impossible to find a new consensus for constitutional democracy the stresses of rapid industrialization were too great
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One resulting problem was the problem of not sacrificing social welfare in the attempt to increase exports
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Latin american governments found themselves between “the high spending required to improve living standards” and the various antiinflationary programs pursued in an attempt to stop price increases
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As political solutions failed to find traction military intervention followed the military sought to pursue technocratic solutions in an attempt to bypass entirely the often volatile world of politics
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Weak states “derived from the peculiar deficiencies of the state in the new world
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