Author: John Charles Chasteen
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: moments, world, history, pivotal, independence, latin, america, struggle, americanos
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2009-08-06
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0195392361
ISBN-13: 9780195392364

A premier volume in Oxford’s Pivotal Moments in World History series, Americanos offers an engagingly written, compact history of the Latin American wars of independence. Proceeding almost cinematically, scene by vivid scene, John Charles Chasteen introduces the reader to lead players, basic concepts, key events, and dominant trends, braided together in a single, taut narrative. He vividly depicts the individuals and events of those tumultuous years, capturing the gathering forces for independence, the clashes of troops and decisions of leaders, and the rich, elaborate tapestry of Latin

Author: John Charles Chasteen
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Keywords: popular, dance, dialogos, albuquerque, american, latin, rhythms, african, roots, history, national
Number of Pages: 269
Published: 2004-01-30
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0826329411
ISBN-13: 9780826329417

When John Charles Chasteen learned that Simón Bolívar, the Liberator, danced on a banquet table to celebrate Latin American independence in 1824, he tried to visualize the scene. How, he wondered, did the Liberator dance? Did he bounce stiffly in his dress uniform? Or did he move his hips? In other words, how high had African dance influences reached in Latin American societies? A vast social gap separated Bolívar from people of African descent; however, Chasteen’s research shows that popular culture could bridge the gap.Fast-paced and often funny, this book explores the history of Latin

Author: John Charles Chasteen
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: latin, america, second, history, concise, amp, fire, blood
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2005-10-14
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0393927695
ISBN-13: 9780393927696

Adopted at over 450 colleges and universities in its First Edition, Born in Blood and Fire has quickly become the standard survey history of Latin America.Drawing on the most current scholarship, this concise text presents a direct, compelling narrative that spans six centuries and twenty countries. Carefully revised in light of recent Latin American history, the Second Edition introduces new maps, helpful chapter timelines, and a new Student Web site.

Author: John Charles Chasteen
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: latin, america, history, concise, fire, blood
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2000-11
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0393050483
ISBN-13: 9780393050486

A concise, integrated, chronological narrative--includes all the high points of Latin American history while exploring its complexities. This amazingly brief history of Latin America will delight any reader. Fully informed by the latest scholarship, this cleverly written survey spans six centuries and covers twenty countries. John Charles Chasteen presents a compelling narrative of the Latin American experience, animated by stories about men and women from all walks of life, and enriched by insightful analysis. The famous and not so famous characters of Latin America are here: Cortes, Malinche

Author: John Charles Chasteen
Publisher: SR Books
Keywords: american, latin, revised, updated, silhouettes, completely, sources, modern, history, problems, interpretations
Number of Pages: 322
Published: 2003-11-01
List price: $89.00
ISBN-10: 0842050604
ISBN-13: 9780842050609

This is a completely revised and updated edition of SR Books’ classic text, Problems in Modern Latin American History. This book has been brought up to date by Professors John Charles Chasteen and James A. Wood to reflect current scholarship and to maximize the book’s utility as a teaching tool. The book is divided into 13 chapters, with each chapter dedicated to addressing a particular "problem" in modern Latin America—issues that complement most survey texts. Each chapter includes an interpretive essay that frames a clear central issue for students to tackle, along with excerpt

Author: John Charles Chasteen
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Keywords: gaucho, caudillos, dialogos, last, times, horseback, life, heroes
Number of Pages: 253
Published: 1995-06-01
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0826315984
ISBN-13: 9780826315984

Heroes on Horseback takes a new look at a topic that will not go away: the charismatic leadership known as caudillismo that has characterized so much of South American history. Why were there so many Spanish American caudillos and so few in Brazil? Where did caudillos get their power? Answers emerge in John Charles Chasteen’s account of the short careers of two back-country caudillos, Gumercindo and Aparicio Saravia, sons of a Brazilian immigrant family in northern Uruguay. Their story is set in the borderland where Brazil and Spanish America met and mingled in the nineteenth

Authors:James Wood, John Charles Chasteen,
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: latin, american, interpretations, silhouettes, sources, history, problems, modern
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2009-02-16
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 074255645X
ISBN-13: 9780742556454

Now in its third edition, this leading reader has been updated to make it even more relevant to the study of contemporary Latin America. This edition includes an entirely new chapter, _The New Left Turn,_ and the globalization chapter has been thoroughly revised to reflect the rapid pace of change over the past five years. The book continues to offer a rich variety of materials that can be tailored to the needs of individual instructors. By focusing each chapter on a single interpretive _problem,_ the book painlessly engages students in document analysis and introduces them to historiography.