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title: "The Penguin History of Latin America"
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# The Penguin History of Latin America

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## Customer Reviews

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    Finally a Legtimate Latin America
  

*by R***Y on Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2012*

Edwin Williamson's Penguin History of Latin America is the best in field yet from the major publishers. Eschewing the campy marxist and the de rigeur post-constructionist "theories of exploitation," Williamson cuts to the chase with old fasioned British "political economics." He makes economically deterministic arguments for colonial administration, for protracted independency wars, for caudillismo, for liberal democracy, for neo-caudillism, and, finally, for neo-liberalism cum populism, post-Cold War style. Slightly disturbing is the absence of at least a pen sketch history of the less important countries, rather than subordinating these countries to adjunctive roles vis-a-vis the big ones. Highly refreshing is Williamson's non-use of tired exploitation and dependency theories, victimization rants, and villainization of "the military" in vaguely stated polemics. This is sophisticated history. It needs a few simple maps ao that it can be used as the introductory text for the "history of Latin America" courses. Williamson says that Latin America has a valid history of its own. Russell W. Ramsey, Ph.D., D. Min. Graduate Professor, History & Diplomacy Norwich University, Northfield, Vermont

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    A short, concise and true explanation of why Latin America is the way it is.
  

*by R***N on Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2021*

I am of European origin living here for a long time."the meeting of two cultures: of gentlemen who didn't like to work, with people that did`t invent the wheel nor writing."In a few words Mr. Williamson describes the reasons of my frustrations

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    Outstanding and readable.
  

*by M***A on Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2015*

An outstanding achievement. This history is valuable and unusual first for the extensive coverage of Latin America before the European arrival and secondly for the detail of the Spanish and Portuguese history that explains so much of the Columbus to Independence centuries. I was disappointed in the chapters on the twentieth century-they seemed to bog down in detail without structure. There is a shocking factual error in the chapter about the conflict in Central America in the 70s-80s-the author describes in detail the fictional assassination of Archbishop Romero on the steps of his cathedral, an event in films but not in life where he was shot saying mass in a hospital chapel. The kindle edition of this book has many errors of spelling, grammar, and incomplete sentences, not quite something on every page, but close.

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