From Frontiers to Football: An Alternative History of Latin America Since 1800 - Brown, Matthew
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With Brazil hosting the FIFA World Cup this summer and the Olympic Games in 2016, all eyes are on Latin America. But what vision of these countries will we be given? Will our airwaves be full of cultural stereotypes about Latin Americans and inaccurate interpretations of the region's position in the world? In this book, Brown provides a historical analysis to rebut misconceptions about Latin America's past while giving readers the tools with which to understand the region's complex present.

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With Brazil hosting the FIFA World Cup this summer and the Olympic Games in 2016, all eyes are on Latin America. But what vision of these countries will we be given? Will our airwaves be full of cultural stereotypes about Latin Americans and inaccurate interpretations of the region's position in the world? In this book, Brown provides a historical analysis to rebut misconceptions about Latin America's past while giving readers the tools with which to understand the region's complex present.
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Matthew Brown is a reader in Latin American studies at the University of Bristol, UK, and the author of The Struggle for Power in Post-Independence Columbia and Venezuela.