Born in blood and fire : a concise history of Latin America /
John Charles Chasteen.
- 3rd ed.
- New York : W.W. Norton, 2011.
- xiii, 340, A34 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
Includes index.
Encounter ; Countercurrents: Friar Bartolomé de las Casas -- Colonial crucible ; Countercurrents: colonial rebellions -- Independence ; Countercurrents: The gaze of outsiders -- Postcolonial blues ; Countercurrents: the power of outsiders -- Progress ; Countercurrents: International wars -- Neocolonialism ; Countercurrents: New immigration to Latin America -- Nationalism ; Countercurrents: Populist leaders of the twentieth century -- Revolution ; Countercurrents: Liberation theology -- Reaction ; Countercurrents ; La violencia, Pablo Escobar, and Colombia's long torment -- Neoliberalism.