"The Breve Historia offers a Latin American point of view . . . and a more explicitly political focus on the twentieth century. . . . It is stimulating reading

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An exploration of the region spanning three thousand years of civilization and focusing on key events and broad cultural patterns examines the challenges facing

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The seventeenth century has been characterized as "Latin America's forgotten century." This landmark work, originally published in 1973, attempted to fill the v