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Latin America In Crisis
Author(s): John W. Sherman (Author)
- Publisher: Perseus
- Publication Date: 20 July 2000
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 232 pages
- ISBN-10: 081333540X
- ISBN-13: 9780813335407
Book Description
This book examines the intellectual problem of Latin American poverty, and discusses some of the explanations scholars have traditionally used to account for it. It focuses on its political and military dimensions of revolution and counterrevolution in the postwar era.
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About the Author
John W. Sherman is a historian with expertise in twentieth-century Mexico. Sherman earned his Ph.D. at the University of Arizona in 1994 prior to returning to his native Ohio to assume a professorship at Wright State University. His recent publications include, The Mexican Right: The End of Revolutionary Reform, 1929-1940, and “The Mexican ‘Miracle’ and its Collapse, 1946-1973” in the Oxford History of Mexico.
