David Dent

Hot Spot

Latin America

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

From border crime in Mexico to Chavez's revolution in Venezuela, this volume presents up-to-the-minute coverage of the key conflicts, corruption, and revolutionary movements simmering or raging in every region of Latin America. In-depth, comprehensive chapters explore drug wars, immigration issues, terrorism, youth gangs, government corruption, controversy over oil, and political instability, including: The Zapatista Rebellion, the Darien Gap controversy, Evo Morales, Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso) and Tupac Amaru, the Falklands, and Guantanamo Bay. From border crime in Mexico to Chavez's revolution in Venezuela, this volume presents up-to-the-minute coverage of the key conflicts, corruption, and revolutionary movements simmering or raging in every region of Latin America. In-depth, comprehensive chapters explore drug wars, imigration issues, terrorism, youth gangs, government corruption, controversy over oil, and political instability. This is a must-have source for current coverage of trouble spots in Latin America, their origins, and subsequent development.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 601g
• ISBN-13: 9780313336614
• ISBN-10: 031333661X
• Artikelnr.: 23140694

Autorenporträt

DAVID W. DENT is Professor of Political Science at Towson University in Baltimore, Maryland. He is the co-author of Historical Dictionary of Inter-American Organizations (1998), the editor of U.S. Latin-American Policymaking: A Reference Handbook (Greenwood, 1995), and Handbook of Political Science Research on Latin America: Trends from the 1960s to the 1990s (Greenwood, 1990), and the author of numerous articles and essays. For the past twenty-five years he has been a contributing editor for the Handbook of Latin American Studies, a biannual reference book published by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress.