From Frontiers to Football - An Alternative History of Latin America Since 1800

With Brazil hosting the FIFA World Cup this summer and the Olympic Games in 2016, all eyes are on Latin America. But what vision of these countries will we be given? Will our airwaves be full of cultural stereotypes about Latin Americans and inaccurate interpretations of the region's position in the world? In this book, Brown provides a historical analysis to rebut misconceptions about Latin America's past while giving readers the tools with which to understand the region's complex present.

About the author

Matthew Brown is a reader in Latin American studies at the University of Bristol, UK, and the author of "The Struggle for Power in Post-Independence Columbia and Venezuela."

Summary

From Frontiers to Football tells the history of Latin America's engagement with global empires from 1800 to today. It is a story of repeated cycles of lessons learned and unlearned, continued dependency, victimhood and thwarted dreams.

Product details

• Authors: Matthew Brown
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.06.2014
• EAN: 9781780233536
• ISBN: 978-1-78023-353-6
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Reaktion Books - Globalities; Reaktion Books - Globalities
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous