Notebooks on the History of Latin America, 1750-2008 Paperback – December 10, 2024

This is the History of Latin America course that John Womack, Jr. taught at Harvard University between 1982 and 2008. These Notebooks are the lectures given in class by the autor. Womack's vision is comprehensive and fascinating, showing a broad and deep overview of the modern and contemporary Latin American past, where political, economic, social, and cultural processes converge, not only as an intricate and complicated succession of events, but also as a significant past in the present. Womack offers a vision of the great Latin American problems, fears, conflicts, promises and concerns through time, from the second half of the 18th century to the first decade of the 21st century. Read more