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statman's review against another edition
3.0
This is written like a textbook that would be used in a college class. It was very interesting to me given my experience of having gone to Mexico and Brazil and having lived in Brazil. After the first few chapters that talk about Latin America as a whole, there are specific chapters that detail the history of the major countries in the area, which I found the most interesting. It is more of a economic and political history and while there were a few snippets about the culture and lifestyle, it would have been nice to have more of that in this book.
lindsaysofia_25's review against another edition
I only didn't finish this book because it was my textbook for a history class and I had to return it. I actually quite enjoyed it. Of course it's a textbook so it wasn't especially compelling, but I'm interested in the content and it did a good job exploring all the major structural factors in Latin American history. I leaned on it heavily for the Cuba portion of my IB history class and it actually gave me a really great idea for the essay I wound up writing on paper 2 of the exam!
cosmicloser's review against another edition
3.0
Interesting and a well written history of the rise of Latin America in the modern world.
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