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Born in Blood and Fire: Fourth Edition

A Concise History of Latin America

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Born in Blood and Fire: Fourth Edition

By: John Charles Chasteen
Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
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The most highly regarded and affordable history of Latin America for our times.

Born in Blood and Fire, Fourth Edition has been extensively revised to heighten emphasis on current cultural analyses of Latin American society and facilitate meaningful connections between the Encounter and the present.

©2016, 2011, 2006, 2001 W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. (P)2020 Tantor Americas World Latin American Mexico

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Enjoyable overview and a great starting point for further investigation in whatever interests you. I love that it highlights some of the more remarkable but less well-known characters from Latin American history, and in particular the amazing women who have been so regretfully overlooked. Narrator is engaging, with a warm and occasionally humourously sardonic tone that keeps your interest.

Brilliant primer on the continent's history

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Truly concise! there's so much to cover and yet is done extremely well, It's a good overall view, that puts individual countries in the context of time. Great listen before you start delving into each or any of the south American countries' history.

Super interesting!

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The author is comprehensive but brief, coherent and frank, broadly educated and empathetic. I recommend this book to anyone on an intermediate level of Latin American history. The narrator is very clear and does not get in the way of the text whatsoever.

Outstanding history of colonized Latin America

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This is a decent audiobook on the history of Latin America. I found this beneficial even as someone who studied a degree relating to Brazil at postgraduate level. There is a good coverage of Latin American countries, and it also explains where the term "Latin America" came from in the first place. It touches upon a number of interesting themes such as race, politics, economics and literature. The narrator's voice is outstanding and soothing and this is professionally narrated. The book achieves the aim of highlighting both the diversity of Latin America as well as the common thread that unites them all.

Decent overview of Latin America

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