Contemporary Latin American Revolutions - (Latin American Perspectives in the Classroom) 2nd Edition by Marc Becker (Paperback)
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- This clear text extends our understanding of revolutions with critical narrative analysis of key case studies.
- About the Author: Marc Becker is professor of Latin American history at Truman State University.
- 374 Pages
- History, Latin America
- Series Name: Latin American Perspectives in the Classroom
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About the Book
This clear text extends our understanding of revolutions with critical narrative analysis of key case studies. Becker analyzes revolutions through the lens of participants and explores the sociopolitical conditions that led to a revolutionary situation, the differing responses...Book Synopsis
This clear text extends our understanding of revolutions with critical narrative analysis of key case studies. Becker analyzes revolutions through the lens of participants and explores the sociopolitical conditions that led to a revolutionary situation, the differing responses to those conditions, and the outcomes of the political changes.
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A splendid introduction to and survey of revolutionary movements in Latin America beginning with the Mexican Revolution and ending with the left turn embracing Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution led by Hugo Chávez. Biographies of key protagonists are accompanied by documents and guides to further reading. This is a splendid introduction to Lain American revolutionary traditions with a much-needed focus on the role of women and Indigenous peoples.
Contemporary Latin American Revolutions offers a geographically and chronologically diverse and theoretically rich array of primary sources, short biographies, and analysis of a spectrum of Latin American revolutionary movements and thought over the course of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. The text will be an essential teaching tool to integrate Latin America into more general courses on revolutions, popular movements, and social change and to highlight the enduring significance of revolutions in Latin America's history. The book gives attention to the grassroots as well as the leadership, to how the region's racial and ethnic diversity has shaped movements for change, and to the external and global forces that Latin American revolutions have confronted. Really a comprehensive and in-depth introduction to the region's revolutionary history.
Marc Becker, one of the most accomplished and prolific historians of twentieth-century Latin America, has produced a comparative account of revolutions in the region that is rigorous, thought-provoking, and highly readable. He pays due attention to structural factors behind revolutionary projects without losing sight of the centrality of human agency in them. This is the best overview of Latin American revolutions I have read. Scholars and students alike will learn a great deal from this timely and stimulating volume.
About the Author
Marc Becker is professor of Latin American history at Truman State University. Among his books are The CIA in Ecuador, The FBI in Latin America, ¡Pachakutik!: Indigenous Movements and Electoral Politics in Ecuador, Indians and Leftists in the Making of Ecuador's Modern Indigenous Movements, and Mariátegui and Latin American Marxist Theory.
