The History of Latin America by Marshall C Eakin

The History of Latin America by Marshall C Eakin

This narrative history of Latin America surveys five centuries in less than five hundred pages. The first third of the book moves from the Americas before Columbus to the wars for independence in the early nineteenth century. The construction of new nations and peoples in the nineteenth century forms the middle third, and the final section analyzes economic development, rising political participation, and the search of identity over the last century. The collision of peoples and cultures--Native Americans, Europeans, Africans--that defines Latin America, and gives it both its unity and diversity, provides the central theme of this concise, synthetic history.

Marshall C. is a well-known author. Eakin is the Executive Director of the Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA) and a professor of history at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of British Enterprise in Brazil (1989), Brazil: The Once and Future Nation (1997), and Tropical Capitalism: The Industrialization of Belo Horizonte, Brazil (2001). He is a specialist in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Brazilian history. With the Teaching Company, Eakin has also created two video courses: Conquest of the Americas and The Americas in the Revolutionary Period. He is a well-known expert on the region, having contributed to travel guides and authored several journal and magazine pieces on Latin American history, culture, and politics. He resides in Nashville, Tennessee.