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	History of Latin America Summary
		Latin America refers to countries in the Americas where Latin-derived (Romance) languages are spoken; these countries generally lie south of the United States.
		The Cambridge history of Latin America (11 vls)
		It was impossible for Latin America to break all ties with European nations with there ancestors at the head of the government and society, and a economy that was nowhere near to being self sufficient.
	www.bookrags.com /History_of_Latin_America (1176 words)

	History of Latin America
		Teaches lecture courses on the history of Latin America to 1914, the history of Mexico, and seminar and conference courses on Latin American economic history.
		Recent publications include Central America and the United States: The Clients and the Colossus (1994), The Origins of Backwardness: Seven Essays on Mexican Economic History in the 18th and 19th Centuries (published in Spanish, 1990), and Latin America and the World Economy since 1918, co-edited with Alan M. Taylor, Harvard University Press, (1998).
		Professor Womack's main intellectual concerns are Latin America, Spain, and Portugal from the 16th century to the present.
	www.people.fas.harvard.edu /~sjsmith/faculty/by_area/latin_america.htm (218 words)

	Haiti's History : Haiti : Latin America : AFSC
		Haiti's History : Haiti : Latin America : AFSC
		Christopher Columbus stopped in Haiti before he reached the shores of North America, and he described it as heaven.
		The island, shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic, was coveted by Britain, France, and Spain for its location, rich soil, and lush climate.
	www.afsc.org /latinamerica/int/history.htm (672 words)

	History of Latin America - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thus, gold (in the post-independence societies of Latin America) and fruit (two-thirds of the raw materials produced by the exploitation of the farmers and their plantations) were monopolised by the owners of the land.
		Economically, the Latin America was certainly dependent on Europe (mainly England) and the United States; independence left a place for an increased dependence especially in the ninteenth century which saw an increase in the dependence on the investment provided.
		History of South America, History of Central America, History of the Caribbean, History of the Americas
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_Latin_America (1276 words)

	Gender and History in Latin America 2005 Conference - Participants
		She is also working with Mary Kay Vaughan and Jocelyn Olcott on the coedition of Gender in Postrevolutionary Mexico (submitted to Duke University Press) and on the XIX and XX centuries volumes of History of Women in Spain and Latin America (forthcoming in Madrid, Editorial Cátedra) which she is coediting with Dora Barrancos.
		Professor of History from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras.
		She is a specialist in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Caribbean history with a focus on immigration, race, and gender.
	www.umich.edu /~iinet/lacs/genderhistory05/participants.html (731 words)

	General
		Abstract: The study of history in a sense that can be called 'environmental' is a discipline yet to be created in Latin America.
		Latin American naturalists from the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
		Vegetation and Vegetational History of Northern Latin America.
	www.stanford.edu /group/LAEH/html/latinamerica.htm (2047 words)

	A Cultural History of Latin America - Cambridge University Press
		The Cambridge History of Latin America is a large scale, collaborative, multi-volume history of Latin America during the five centuries from the first contacts between Europeans and the native peoples of the Americas in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries to the present.
		A Cultural History of Latin America brings together chapters from Volumes III, IV, and X of The Cambridge History on literature, music, and the visual arts in Latin America during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
		1920; Latin American fiction from the regionalist novel between the Wars to the post-War New Novel, from the 'Boom' to the 'Post-Boom'; twentieth-century Latin American poetry; indigenous literatures and culture in the twentieth century; twentieth-century Latin American music; architecture and art in twentieth-century Latin America, and the history of cinema in Latin America.
	www.cambridge.org /catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521623278 (314 words)

	The economic history of Latin America
		Hartford Web Publishing is not the author of the documents in World History Archives and does not presume to validate their accuracy or authenticity nor to release their copyright.
		With the informal sector increasingly providing the only jobs available in Latin America, the dream may be ended for countries in the region wanting to develop societies like those of industrialized countries.
		Latin America and the Caribbean fared the worst of any region in the world last year after being hit by the global economic crisis and by adverse weather conditions.
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/40/index-db.html (337 words)

	History of Latin America - Knowmore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Latin America refers to countries in the Americas where latin (romance) languages are spoken, these countries generally lie south of the United States.
		Upon their arrival, most of Latin America was colonized primarily by Spain and Portugal, and in a lesser extend France.
		In the early 19th century most of the countries in the region attained their independence, although a few small colonies remain.
	www.knowmore.org /index.php/History_of_Latin_America (122 words)

	Contemporary Latin America
		Through a study of Latin short stories, essays, and poems, students will become more aware and knowledgeable of the interconnection among all peoples, that universality in all fine literature, which proclaim us citizens of the world.
		The goal of the unit is for the students to develop an extensive project on Latin America.
		The focus of this unit is both on the literature of Latin America and the cultures out of which it grew.
	www.chatham.edu /pti/Contemp_Latin/abstract_page.htm (2354 words)

	Latin America: Reform Or Revolt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		resources, the average citizen of Latin America is young and poor.
		A key element in Latin America is the relationship between the United
		America was removed in 1978 when the United Senate approved the treaty that
	history-world.org /latinrevolt.htm (1014 words)

	Feminist history in Latin America - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Feminism in Latin America did not rise because patriarchy lost power, as was also mentioned in the article I'm reediting, but because women in many different parts of Latin America were forced to act.
		Latin American nations have historically held a political and economic Third World vulnerability, leading women to share a common legacy of oppression.
		Later latin American women were organizing in the early 1980s biannual, regionwide Latin American and Caribbean feminist Encuentros offered women a vehicle for coming together and becoming politicized, and for developing strategies, to fight against prevailing sexism, racism, economic disparity, neo/colonialism, and political repression.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Feminist_history_in_Latin_America (845 words)

	Latin America Curriculum Map
		Identify Latin America's main geographic regions by using political, physical, and contour maps.
		Write a journal entry from the point of view of a native from one of the three regions of Latin America.
		Create a poster based on the quote: "The weather in Latin America is a great friend to the people, but also a terrible enemy." The students must produce visual examples and written information that supports the statement.
	schools.portnet.k12.ny.us /~rmclean/Latin_America/curriculummap.htm (1793 words)

	Andrew Sluyter \| Recentism in Environmental History on Latin America \| Environmental History, 10.1 \| The History ...
		Generally, and quite ironically, recentism precludes understanding recent history because understanding modernity requires understanding how the salient characteristics of modern regimes emerged out of the disjunctures and continuities between premodern and early modern times.
		Accordingly, Mexico's germplasm resources have become the ancient patrimony of all humankind while biotechnology corporations develop GM crops from that germplasm and patent them to the detriment of native peoples and their local agricultural knowledge and crop varieties.
		Understanding the recent, continuing consequences of colonial livestock introductions therefore requires understanding precolonial processes involved in interactions among animals, plants, soils, and people as well as the disjunctures and continuities those processes underwent during the early colonial period—which is exactly why Sauer singled out the sixteenth century as being so critical to the present.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/eh/10.1/sluyter.html (1046 words)

	Latin America
		Latin American Network Information Center a veritable library of links to sites related to Latin America.
		UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) includes press releases, interviews, speeches, op-ed pieces, statements of the Secretary-General, and nearly all its publications, in both English and Spanish
		In much of Latin America, particularly in the coutries of the Andes, the long-suppressed native peoples have begun to organise and make political demands for the first time since the 18th century, and Chavez is the first president in the continent to have picked up their banner and made it his own" (Richard Gott.
	www.accd.edu /pac/lrc/latinamerica.htm (2607 words)

	Amazon.com: A Cultural History of Latin America: Literature, Music and the Visual Arts in the 19th and 20th Centuries ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A Cultural History of Latin America brings together chapters from Volumes III, IV, and X of The Cambridge History of Latin America.
		It is difficult to make sense of the cultural history of Latin America in the nineteenth century without an understanding of the age of revolutionary struggle and independence with which it begins.
		While the latest edition of Leslie Bethell's Oxford "History Of Latin America" series suffers by comparison with others of the series it does provide insight and information on an aspect of Latin America which is often slighted by economic or political analyses of the region.
	www.amazon.com /Cultural-History-Latin-America-Literature/dp/0521626269 (1321 words)

	History 8A: Colonial Latin America
		This first half of a two-semester introduction to the history of Latin America centers on the colonial period: the years of Spanish and Portuguese colonization from the early sixteenth century to the beginning of mainland Latin American nationhood in the nineteenth century.
		As the images in Colonial Latin America: A Documentary History are meant to suggest, they are not only illustrations of something else; they are sources in their own right.
		As you work toward an understanding of this history, some of the images should be as important to you as the readings and lectures.
	history.berkeley.edu /faculty/Taylor/H8A/index.html (296 words)

	Yale History Graduate Students : Caribbean & Latin American History
		Political violence, the native peoples of the Americas, and the transformation of church-state-peasant relations in the eighteenth century Hispanic world are at the heart of this project.
		Her academic and research interests include 19th and 20th century Latin American and Caribbean social, political and cultural history; the history of postemancipation societies; history of medicine and science; the history of gender and sexuality, and racial formations in Latin America and the Caribbean.
		I study the cultural and intellectual history of Latin America in the twentieth century.
	www.yale.edu /history/gradstudents/latin-america.html (2452 words)

	History 25 - Latin America Since Independence
		In contrast to most traditional language courses where one studies language or literature, LAC courses focus on content in different disciplinary contexts—in our case the History of Latin America Since Independence.
		Rather, you will be evaluated based on your contributions to and participation in the discussions (20%), and the quality and timely completion of the writing assignments (30%).
		That said, the LAC section of this history course will be a lot of fun.
	www.unc.edu /~godoynav (512 words)

	WWW Virtual Library Labour History: Latin America
		Latin American Network Information Center at the University of Texas at Austin.
		Oxford Latin American Economic History Database (OxLAD) Comparable economic and social data for 20 countries in Latin America for 1900-2000.
		LabourAgain A research network on Latin America, social mobilisation and the centrality of labour.
	www.iisg.nl /~w3vl/latinamerica.html (257 words)

	World Wide Web Virtual Library - Film History Index - Home Page
		History Of Cuban Film Industry A view on Cuban film history by way of an interview with Lola and Julio García Espinoza.
		The Film History Index is a joint project between the European University Institute's Library and History & Civilisation Department.
		The Film History Index was created in September 2000 as part of the WWW VL History Network.
	vlib.iue.it /hist-film/latin-america.html (584 words)

	The Economic History of Latin America since Independence - Cambridge University Press
		Beginning with the integration of Latin America into the world trading system centered on Europe and North America during the century before 1930, this book explores the successes and failures of export-led growth.
		Using new data on exports and a simple model to explore the relationship between exports and growth, the author pays particular attention to the question that has most concerned policy-makers in Latin America: how to transfer growth in the export sector to the rest of the economy, raising living standards and real income per head.
		The author examines the routes through which Latin American republics extricated themselves from the debt problem in pursuit of a new version of export-led growth.
	www.cambridge.org /uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521532744 (433 words)

	Environmental History of Latin America
		We have the third boletim for the II Simposium on American Environmental History in La Havana, in October 2004.
		The website for the I Symposium on American Environmental History, in Chile, June 2003, is still active.
		For instance, some colleagues noted that we need a better definition for the Environmental History for Latin America, to show how it is different from Historical Geography, a field with much more tradition among Latin Americanists.
	www.stanford.edu /group/LAEH/index.html (407 words)

	Amazon.com: The Penguin History of Latin America (Penguin History): Books: Edwin Williamson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Penguin History of Latin America (Penguin History) by Edwin Williamson
		Williamson's underlying thesis is that of the search of Latin American societies for Modernity defined as a democratic, liberal and self-conscious state of affairs.
		Since the history of Latin America is so intriguing, I was expecting this book to be a bit more intriguing.
	www.amazon.com /Penguin-History-Latin-America/dp/0140125590 (1398 words)

	Department of History::About::Fields::Latin America
		The University of Chicago has a long and distinguished tradition as a center of scholarship and teaching on the history of Latin America.
		Chicago Ph.D.s hold faculty appointments in colleges and universities throughout the United States and Latin America.
		Our current faculty’s research interests are broad, diverse, and interdisciplinary, thematically (intellectual, cultural, social, legal, political, and economic history) as well as chronologically (from the sixteenth through the twentieth century).
	history.uchicago.edu /about/fields/latin_america/index.html (156 words)

	Gabriela Soto Laveaga
		History 201LA, Advanced Historical Literature (Latin America): Race, Disease, and Nation Formation in Latin America, 1492-1992
		History 201LA, Advanced Historical Literature (Latin America): Citizenship and Nation in Latin America
		History of Latin America, Modern Mexico, intersection of science and culture; bioprospecting, emerging identities and citizenships.
	www.history.ucsb.edu /faculty/sotolaveaga (374 words)

	History 340 Latin America
		Latin American Data Base (LADB) An Internet-based news service in English about Latin America, publishing in-depth coverage of Latin American affairs since 1986.
		Latin American Research Review (LARR) An interdisciplinary journal that publishes original research and surveys of current research on Latin America and the Caribbean.
		The HLAS search engine allows searching by author, title, subject and "full text" (i.e., all the words in the citation and annotation).
	www.calpoly.edu /~sharlan/hist340x.html (641 words)

	Oxford Latin American Economic History Database - About OxLAD
		The Oxford Latin American Economic History Database (OxLAD) contains statistical series for a wide range of economic and social indicators covering twenty countries in the region for the period 1900-2000.
		The project on the economic history of twentieth century Latin America from which the database derives was initiated and funded by the Inter-American Development Bank, and resulted in the study published as Thorp, R. Progress, Poverty and Exclusion: an Economic History of Latin America in the Twentieth Century' (Washington DC: Inter-American Development Bank, 1998).
		OxLAD is produced by the Latin American Centre of Oxford University, one of four centres in the UK dedicated to postgraduate teaching and research in Latin American studies.
	oxlad.qeh.ox.ac.uk (358 words)

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