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050 4 $aF1408$b.H254 1968
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049 $aMAIN
100 1 $aHanke, Lewis,$eauthor.
245 10 $aContemporary Latin America :$ba short history ; text and readings /$cLewis Hanke, Professor of History, University of California, Irvine.
264 1 $aPrinceton, New Jersey :$bD. Van Nostrand Company, Inc.,$c[1968]
264 4 $c© 1968
300 $axii, 532 pages :$billustrations, maps, portraits ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 514-526) and index.
520 1 $a"The indefatigable Lewis Hanke has given our guild another useful teaching aid in the form of this brief history, combining text and readings. Freshness and realism are among the salient qualities of this text. The all-too-frequent tendency to gloss over the unpleasant facts of contemporary Latin American society and to dull the sharp edges of inter-American conflicts is absent from this book, which combines sprightly writing with the sound scholarship that we have learned to expect from Professor Hanke. Particularly commendable is the balanced presentation of topics on which we are accustomed to hear clichés, such as the Cuban Revolution. Pungent quotations from a variety of unofficial sources, including literary works like Carlos Fuentes' Where the Air Is Clear, enliven the text. Each chapter is accompanied by a bibliography which demonstrates the author's close scrutiny of the growing body of writings on contemporary Latin America. If the second section, composed of readings, makes a less happy impression, the fault is not Professor Hanke's. The fact is that much that has and is being written about contemporary Latin America, both in this country and to the South, has a peculiarly insubstantial nature. How insubstantial and evanescent becomes clear when a judgment on a given Latin American government or problem is reread ten years later. As one who has also struggled with this problem of selecting suitable contemporary material for an anthology, I am sympathetic with Professor Hanke's quandary. Early in the book we are shown a photograph of a smiling Richard Nixon and an equally ebullient Generalissimo Trujillo sharing a "warm abrazo" in 1960. Should we attach a special political significance to this heart-warming picture? -- Benjamin Keen, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois." --$c(Book Review: The Americas, Volume 25, Issue 3, January 1969, p. 328 ; published on behalf of the Academy of American Franciscan History © 1969).
590 $bInternet Archive - 2
590 $bInternet Archive 2
651 0 $aLatin America.
651 0 $aLatin America$xHistory.
651 0 $aLatin America$xSocial life and customs.
650 7 $aManners and customs.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01007815
651 7 $aLatin America.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01245945
655 7 $aHistory.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411628
776 08 $iOnline version:$aHanke, Lewis.$tContemporary Latin America.$dPrinceton, N.J., Van Nostrand [1968]$w(OCoLC)592370972
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