

A History of Latin America
Author: George Pendle
Narrator: Fred Williams
Unabridged: 9 hr 23 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 01/01/2007
Categories: Nonfiction, History
Author: George Pendle
Narrator: Fred Williams
Unabridged: 9 hr 23 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 01/01/2007
Categories: Nonfiction, History
George Pendle is an author and journalist. He writes about contemporary art, historical fiction, imaginary countries, real monsters, mad scientists, sane occultists, and the color blue.He has written for the Economist, the Financial Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Times (London), the Guardian, the Observer, frieze, Cabinet, Bidoun, Modern Painters, and Icon.He has also written signs for the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.
Rating: 5/10. When you are as clueless as I was regarding the history of Latin America, you have to start somewhere and that's with a survey of the topic. Truthfully, you'd be better off with a volume which has been written in the last couple of years. Pendle, who was an Oxford professor and a Brit,......more
pendle writes well about a subject he clearly loved. good historical summaries (16th-19th centuries), though thin on the pre-columbian millennia. he wrote this in the 1960s, with a rushed end-note from 1975. that's fine, as i enjoy seeing the viewpoint from different periods. i'm also happy with wri......more
Given that the last update in this book mentions the overthrow of Allende in Chile, but does not name Pinochet, it follows that it can't help but be out of date. It might function well as a part I, if someone were to write a history of Latin America from 1970-2020. Even so, I don't think the book wa......more
No puedo negar que este libro efectivamente cumple su promesa: es un paseo general por todo el continente desde que llegó Colón hasta la década de 1970. Es todo lo que tus profesoras de historia les dio lata pasarte en el colegio. Al menos a mí como chilena no me enseñaron nada sobre Centro América,......more