5th Edition
Latin America Its Problems and Its Promise: A Multidisciplinary Introduction
1. Introduction: Latin America Leading the Learning Curve [Jan Knippers Black]
Part 1: The Land and the People
2 Landscape and Settlement Patterns [Alfonso Gonzalez]
3 The Indian Populations of Latin America [Karl H. Schwerin]
4 A Harmonizing and Disharmonizing Human and Natural Environments [David Stea and G. Shane Lewis]
Part 2: Historical Setting
5. Colonial Latin America [Peter Bakewell]
6. Latin America Since Independence: An Overview [Michael Conniff]
Part 3: Economic and Social Structures
7. Latin American Economies Restructure, Again [William P. Glade]
8. Social Structure and Change in Latin America [Henry Veltmeyer and James Petras]
9. Strategies and Trends in Latin American Activism [Wendy Muse Sinek]
Part 4: Political Processes and Trends
10. Participation and Political Process: The Collapsible Pyramid [Jan Knippers Black]
11. Women and Latin American Politics: Participation, Citizenship, and Democracy [Jane S. Jaquette]
12. Globalization, Insecurity, and Crisis in the Americas [Jorge Nef]
Part 5: External Relations
13. International Relations in Latin America: Conflict and Cooperation [James Lee Ray]
14. The United States and Latin America: Into a New Era [Wayne S. Smith]
Part 6: Mexico and Central America
15. Mexico: A Revolution Laid to Rest? [Fred P. Harris and Martin C. Needler]
16. Central America: From Revolution to "Low-Intensity Democracies" [Thomas W. Walker and Christine J. Wade]
17. Panama and the Canal [Steve C. Ropp]
Part 7: Cuba and the Caribbean
18. The Cuban Revolution [Nelson P. Valdés]
19. The Caribbean: The Structure of Modern-Conservative Societies [Anthony P. Maingot]
Part 8: The Andes
20. Colombia's Split-Level Realities Jan Knippers Black [William H. Godnick]
21. Venezuela: The Challenge to a "Model Democracy" [Steve Ellner]
22. Ecuador: Political Turmoil, Social Mobilization, and a Turn Toward the Left [Pablo Andrade, A. Liisa L. North]
23. Peru: Precarious Democracy amid Dependent Development in a Divided Nation [Cynthia McClintock]
24. Bolivia: An Indigenous Movement Consolidates Power [José Z. Garcia]
Part 9: Brazil and the Southern Cone
25. Brazil: From Military Regime to Workers' Party Government [David Fleischer]
26. Chile: The Development, Breakdown, and Recovery of Democracy [J. Samuel Valenzuela and Arturo Valenzuela]
27. Argentina: Decline and Revival [Peter Calvert]
28. Uruguay and Paraguay: An Arduous Transition Diego [Abente Brun and Michael Danielson]
29. Conclusion: A New Kind of Togetherness [Jan Knippers Black]
Biography
Jan Knippers Black is professor of international policy studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies in California, a Graduate School of Middlebury College. She has authored or edited numerous books, including Development in Theory and Practice: Paradigms and Paradoxes, Second Edition (Routledge).
