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Stunning in its sweep, Americas is the most authoritative history available of contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean. From Mexico to Tierra del Fuego, from Cuba to Trinidad and Tobago, Americas examines the historical, demographic, political, social, cultural, religious, and economic trends in the region. For this edition, Peter Winn has updated the book to take account of dramatic changes and developments in Latin America since 1994.

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• Preface to the 1999 Edition(p. v)
• Preface(p. xi)
• 1 A View from the South(p. 3)
• 2 Legacies of Empire(p. 33)
• 3 The Perils of Progress(p. 84)
• 4 A Second Independence?(p. 120)
• 5 Capital Sins(p. 155)
• 6 Continent on the Move(p. 200)
• 7 Children of the Sun(p. 234)
• 8 A Question of Color(p. 271)
• 9 In Women's Hands(p. 307)
• 10 The Power and the Glory(p. 346)
• 11 The Magical and the Real(p. 394)
• 12 Endangered States(p. 442)
• 13 Making Revolution(p. 492)
• 14 North of the Border(p. 550)
• Epilogue: Latin America and the Caribbean at 2000(p. 601)
• Notes(p. 609)
• Illustration Credits(p. 621)
• Index(p. 625)

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Peter Winn is Professor of Latin American history at Tufts University and a senior research associate at Columbia University's Institute of Latin American and Iberian Studies. He was academic director of the PBS series "Americas: Latin America and the Caribbean," for which the first edition of this book was a companion volume.