Latin America: From Indigenous Civilizations to Modernization

Author: Zhang Jiache
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Publish Date: 1999-06-01
Features: This book is one of the "Essentials of World History." It discusses the history of Latin America from ancient Indian civilizations to the 1990s. It narrates the origins and distribution of ancient Indian civilizations, the history of the conquest of the Americas by colonial powers, and the difficult development of Latin American countries after the wars of independence. It also includes the post-World War II national democratic movements, the process of modernization, and the economic adjustments and reforms of Latin American countries in the 1990s.