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Klappentext The Cambridge History of Latin America is the first authoritative large-scale history of the whole of Latin America - Mexico and Central America, the Spanish-speaking Caribbean (and Haiti), Spanish South America and Brazil - from the first contacts between the native peoples of the Americas and Europeans in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries to the present day. Zusammenfassung Volume 6 brings together general essays on major themes in the economic! social! and political history of Latin America from 1930 to 1990. Part 2 deals primarily with political themes. Inhaltsverzeichnis General preface; Preface to volume 6; Part I. State: 1. State organization in Latin America since 1930 Laurence Whitehead; Part II. Politics: 2. Democracy in Latin America since 1930 Jonathan Hartlyn; 3. The left in Latin American politics since c.1920 Alan Angell; 4. The military in Latin American politics since 1930 Alain Rouquie; Part III. Society and Politics: 5. The urban working class and labour movement in Latin America since 1930 Ian Roxborough; 6. Rural mobilizations in Latin America since c.1920 Guillermo de la Peña; 7. Women in twentieth-century Latin American society Asunción Lavrin; Part IV. Church: 8. The Catholic church in Latin America Enrique Dussel; 9. The Protestant churches in Latin America since 1930 José Miguez Bonino; Bibliographical essays; Index.