Böcker av Jonathan C. Brown

Introduces readers to the dramatic events, notable people, and special customs and traditions that have shaped many of the world's countries. This series focuses on factors as diverse as the development of the economy to the role of women in society to changes in the political landscape.

This book surveys Argentina's development from the establishment of the Viceroyalty of the Rio de la Plata within the Spanish-American empire to the building of the first railways in the independent nation.

As Castro's democratic reform movement veered off course, a revolution that seemed to signal the death knell of dictatorship in Latin America brought about its tragic opposite. Jonathan C. Brown examines in forensic detail how the turmoil that rocked a small Caribbean nation in the 1950s became one of the century's most transformative events.