Education in Latin America
National identities, ethnicity, and race
Indigenous issues
Summary
Review questions
Evolving economies and globalization / Brian W. Blouet
Introduction
Economic policies
Sectors of the economy
The primary sector
The manufacturing sector
The service sector
International economic groupings in Latin America
Summary
Review questions
The contemporary city / Alan Gilbert
Urban growth since 1950
Migration to the city
Life in the city
Challenges
Summary
Review questions
Models of urban structure / Charles S. Sargent and Brian W. Blouet
Mexican border towns
Regional survey : middle America
Caribbean contrasts / Olwyn M. Blouet
Introduction
Physical environments and hazards
The making of the island Caribbean
The Greater Antilles
The Lesser Antilles
Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana (Guyane)
Summary
Review questions
Modernizing Mexico / Peter Rees
The ties that bind
Physical landscapes and environmental pressures
Origins of the contemporary landscape
Regions of Mexico
The independent North
The central metropolitan axis
The Southern poverty belt
Challenges to modernity
Review questions
Central America : the search for unity / Peter Rees
Introduction
Physical environment
Origins of the contemporary landscape
The modern era
Summary
Review questions
Regional survey : South America
Andean America / Brian W. Blouet
Introduction
Colombia
Venezuela
The central Andes : Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia
Ecuador
Peru
Bolivia
The southern Andes : Chile
Review questions
Brazil and Brazilian Amazonia / C. Gary Lobb
Introduction
The physical background
Historical development
Political economy
Agricultural economy
Social geography
Regional disparity
Political issues
Brazilian Amazonia : the physical setting
Human ecology : the place of humankind in the Amazonian biosphere
Recent human activity
Problems and promise of Amazonia
Review questions
Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay / Charles S. Sargent and Brian W. Blouet
Introduction
An urban world
Physical geography
Argentina
Uruguay
Paraguay
Summary
Review questions
Glossary
Further reading
Photo credits
Index.
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