Chile and Argentina

Name: Chile and Argentina
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Mark Szuchman
ISBN: 9781433238369

Author: Mark Szuchman

Series: The World's Political Hot Spots Series

Narrator: Harry Reasoner, Peter Hackes, and Richard C. Hottelet

Unabridged: 2 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Knowledge Products, Inc.

Published: 04/30/2006

Categories: Nonfiction, History

Synopsis

The southern cone of South America has a vibrant yet checkered history. Argentina in 1920 was a productive and wealthy nation, yet by the 1980s was reduced to virtual third world status. Chile has a long history of internal strife, usually with representative politics until authoritarians seized power in 1973. Chile was influenced by Spanish conquerors; Argentinas Italian and German immigrants, made it the most European of any South American country.

About Mark Szuchman

Mark D. Szuchman is a professor of Latin American history and chair of the Department of History at Florida International University. The managing editor of Hispanic American Historical Review, he is the author of Order, Family, and Community in Buenos Aires, 1810â€“1860 and Mobility and Integration in Urban Argentina: CÃ³rdoba in the Liberal Era.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Gilbert

This is a great introduction to two important South American countries. I didn’t know a lot about either one. The histories are really from the Spanish conquest forward and too short to get into much detail, but they do provide succinct overviews peppered with excerpts from personal accounts of the......more

Goodreads review by Jane

A good introduction to the history of both these countries.......more

Goodreads review by AttackGirl

More political rant than anything truly not about the country it’s history,it’s borders, the people food farms really nothing other than a desert waste land with political killing. Disappointed......more