Twisted Roots [[electronic resource] ] : Latin America's Living Past

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910828824803321
• Autore: Montaner Carlos Alberto
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Algora Publishing, 2007
• ISBN: 0-87586-203-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (204 p.)
• Disciplina: 980—dc22
• Soggetti: Social conflict
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Table of Contents; A Few Words; 1. A Suspicious Origin: Fraud, Sophisms, and Other Theological and Judicial Traps; 2. One State to the Dissatisfaction of All; 3. Blacks in a Persistently Racist Society; 4. Sex, Sexism, and Gender Roles; 5. An Economy Twisted At Birth; 6. "Let Other People Do the Inventing!"; 7. Caudillos, Montoneros, Guerillas, And Liberals And Conservatives; 8. Escape From The Labyrinth; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Examining the historical and cultural influences that have shaped Latin America, this syndicated international journalist and author suggests that they have made it into the most impoverished, unstable and backward region in the Western world.""An indispen