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| Introducing Latin America | |
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| Overview of Systematic Chapters | |
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| Overview of Regional Chapters | |
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| Reading about Latin America | |
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| General Works | |
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| Scholarly Journals | |
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| Handbooks | |
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| Statistical Sources | |
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| Journalistic Sources | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Systematic Survey | |
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| Physical Environments | |
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| Introduction: Environmental Contrasts | |
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| Environmental History | |
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| Environmental Variation | |
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| Environmental Hazards | |
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| Tectonic Plates and Structural Regions | |
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| Major Climate and Vegetation Regions | |
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| Air Masses and Atmospheric Circulation | |
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| Distribution of Precipitation | |
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| Soil Types | |
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| Natural Vegetation Types | |
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| River Systems | |
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| Perceiving Environments and Resources | |
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| Sustainable Development | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Historical Geography | |
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| Introduction: The Shaping of the Atlantic World | |
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| The Americas Before 1492: Native American Peoples and Environments | |
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| Centers of European Conquest and Settlement | |
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| Colonial Economy and Society | |
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| The Age of Revolution | |
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| Summary | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Globalization and Latin America | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Development of Export Economies | |
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| The United States and Latin America | |
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| Impact of World War I | |
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| Between the Wars | |
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| Geopolitics | |
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| Impact of World War II | |
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| Government Control of Economies | |
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| Post-World War II | |
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| The Alliance for Progress | |
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| The 1960s | |
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| International Economic Groupings Within Latin America | |
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| The Oil Crisis of the 1970s | |
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| Depression in the 1980s | |
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| New Approaches in the 1990s | |
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| The Industry of Globalization-Tourism | |
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| The Dark Side of the Globe | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Population: Growth, Distribution, and Migration | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Demographic Transition Model | |
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| Changing Birthrates and Death Rates-Mexico and Argentina in the Twentieth Century | |
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| Infant Mortality | |
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| Economic Development and Population Growth | |
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| Problems Arising from a Rapid Rate of Population Growth | |
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| The Changing Distribution of Population | |
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| Population Migration | |
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| Theories of Migration | |
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| What Motivates Migration? | |
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| International Migration | |
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| Quality of Life | |
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| Women in the Workforce | |
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| Summary | |
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| Demographic Source Material | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| The Latin American City | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Evolution of the Urban System | |
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| Zones of Urban Development | |
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| The Contemporary City | |
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| Problems, Prospects, and Primacy | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| A Place of One's Own: Housing in Latin America | |
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| Housing Programs | |
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| Self-help housing | |
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| Rental housing | |
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| The Economy: Growth, Diversification, and Globalization | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Structure of the Latin American Economy | |
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| Agriculture | |
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| Mining | |
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| Manufacturing | |
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| Services | |
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| Summary | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Regional Survey: Middle America | |
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| Mexico | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Physical Environment | |
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| Origins of the Contemporary Landscape | |
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| Regions of Mexico | |
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| Mexico's Challenges in the New Millennium | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and Cancun | |
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| Dinosaur Extinction: The Chicxulub Crater | |
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| Physical Characteristics | |
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| The Maya | |
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| Spanish Colonial Period | |
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| The Modern Period | |
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| Green Gold | |
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| Cancun | |
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| Central America | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Physical Environment | |
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| Origins of the Contemporary Landscape | |
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| The Modern Era | |
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| Summary | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| The Caribbean | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Caribbean Region | |
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| The Contemporary Caribbean | |
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| The Greater Antilles | |
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| The Lesser Antilles | |
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| Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana (Guyane) | |
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| Summary | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Women and Development in the Caribbean | |
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| Regional Survey: South America | |
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| Andean America | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Andes | |
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| Colombia | |
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| Venezuela | |
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| Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador | |
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| Agriculture | |
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| Chile | |
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| Summary | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Brazil | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Physical Background | |
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| Historical Development | |
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| Political Economy | |
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| The Agricultural Economy | |
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| Political and Social Geography | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Summary | |
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| Brazilian Amazonia | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Physical Setting | |
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| Human Ecology: The Place of Humankind in the Amazonian Biosphere | |
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| Recent Human Activity | |
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| Problems and Promise of Amazonia | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay | |
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| Introduction | |
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| An Urban World | |
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| Mercosur | |
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| Physical Geography | |
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| Argentina | |
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| Uruguay | |
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| Paraguay | |
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| Summary | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Photo Credits | |
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| Index | |