The Cambridge History of Latin America, Volume 8: Latin America since 1930, Book 3) Spanish South America

This volume consists of the separate histories of the countries of Spanish South America. Part One covers in depth the history of Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay. Part Two is devoted to Chile. Part Three covers Peru and Bolivia. The fourth and final section is devoted to Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela. The Cambridge History of Latin America is the first authoritative large-scalehistory of the whole for Latin America - Mexico and Central America, theSpanish-speaking Caribbean (and Haiti), Spanish South America and Brazil - fromthe first contacts between the native peoples of the Americas and Europeans inthe late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries to the present day. A major work of collaborative international scholarship, the Cambridge History of LatinAmerica has been planned, coordinated and edited by a single editor, Dr.Leslie Bethell, reader in Hispanic American and Brazilian History at UniversityCollege London. It will be published in 10 & 1 volumes. Each volume or set ofvolumes examines a period in the economic, social, political, intellectual andcultural history of Latin America.An important feature of The Cambridge History of Latin America is the bibliographical essays which accompany each chapter. The essays from Volumes I–X, revised and updated, arebrought together in Volume XI: Bibliography. This eighth volume consists of the separate histories of the countries of Spanish South America. Part I covers in depth the history of Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay. Part II is devoted to Chile. Part III covers Peru and Bolivia. The fourth and final section is devoted to Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela. This is an authoritative large-scale history of the whole of Latin America, from the first contacts between native American peoples and Europeans in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries to the present day. TThis is an authoritative large-scale history of the whole of Latin America, from the first contacts between native American peoples and Europeans in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries to the present day The year 1930 opens the gateway into modern Argentina.