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PRAISE FOR THE PREVIOUS EDITIONS: "Rare is the book in English that
provides a general overview of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Rarer still is the good, topical, and largely dispassionate book
that contributes to a better understanding of the rest of the
hemisphere. Peter Winn has managed to produce both."--"Miami Herald
""This magisterial work provides an accessible and engaging
introduction to the complex tapestry of contemporary Latin America
and the Caribbean."--Foreign Affairs "A clear, level-headed
snapshot of a region in transition. . . . Winn is most interesting
when he discusses the larger issues and to his credit he does this
often."--Washington Post Book World "Balanced and wide-ranging. . .
. After canvassing the legacies of the European conquerors, Winn
examines issues of national identity and economic development. . .
. Other discussions survey internal migration, the role of
indigenous peoples, the complexity of race relations, and the
treatment of women." --Publishers Weekly
The Chile Reader makes available a rich variety of documents
spanning more than five hundred years of Chilean history. Most of
the selections are by Chileans; many have never before appeared in
English. The history of Chile is rendered from diverse
perspectives, including those of Mapuche Indians and Spanish
colonists, peasants and aristocrats, feminists and military
strongmen, entrepreneurs and workers, and priests and poets. Among
the many selections are interviews, travel diaries, letters,
diplomatic cables, cartoons, photographs, and song lyrics.Texts and
images, each introduced by the editors, provide insights into the
ways that Chile's unique geography has shaped its national
identity, the country's unusually violent colonial history, and the
stable but autocratic republic that emerged after independence from
Spain. They shed light on Chile's role in the world economy, the
social impact of economic modernization, and the enduring problems
of deep inequality. The Reader also covers Chile's bold experiments
with reform and revolution, its subsequent descent into one of
Latin America's most ruthless Cold War dictatorships, and its
much-admired transition to democracy and a market economy in the
years since dictatorship.
My Alphabetasaurus is written and illustrated by the author and is
aimed at younger readers with an interest in the Mesozoic Era, or
Age of the Dinosaurs. The book deals only with land animals and
does not cover marine reptiles, flying reptiles or mammals. In all,
thirty dinosaurs are represented by illustration and descriptive
text. The illustrations are hand-drawn in colour, based on
information resourced from internet sites. The animals depicted are
set out in alphabetical order with informative text, describing in
general; where and when they lived, what they ate, their size and
weight estimations and where possible how long they lived. Colour
is of course largely guess-work as little skin has ever been found
in the fossil record. The book describes in brief the formation of
our planet and how dinosaurs evolved through the Triassic period,
the Jurassic period and finally until the passing of the dinosaurs
at the end of the Cretaceous period. In all the 186 million years
of the Mesozoic era. At the time of writing there are records of
well over eight hundred species of these magnificent animals. The
thirty depicted in My Alphabetasaurus are but a small number, the
aim of the book was however to represent one or more species for
each letter of the alphabet. The book includes a glossary aimed at
describing some of the common.
Chile was the first major Latin American nation to carry out a
complete neoliberal transformation. Its policies--encouraging
foreign investment, privatizing public sector companies and
services, lowering trade barriers, reducing the size of the state,
and embracing the market as a regulator of both the economy and
society--produced an economic boom that some have hailed as a
"miracle" to be emulated by other Latin American countries. But how
have Chile's millions of workers, whose hard labor and long hours
have made the miracle possible, fared under this program? Through
empirically grounded historical case studies, this volume examines
the human underside of the Chilean economy over the past three
decades, delineating the harsh inequities that persist in spite of
growth, low inflation, and some decrease in poverty and
unemployment.
Implemented in the 1970s at the point of the bayonet and in the
shadow of the torture chamber, the neoliberal policies of Augusto
Pinochet's dictatorship reversed many of the gains in wages,
benefits, and working conditions that Chile's workers had won
during decades of struggle and triggered a severe economic crisis.
Later refined and softened, Pinochet's neoliberal model began,
finally, to promote economic growth in the mid-1980s, and it was
maintained by the center-left governments that followed the
restoration of democracy in 1990. Yet, despite significant
increases in worker productivity, real wages stagnated, the
expected restoration of labor rights faltered, and gaps in income
distribution continued to widen. To shed light on this history and
these ongoing problems, the contributors look at industries long
part of the Chilean economy--including textiles and copper--and
industries that have expanded more recently--including fishing,
forestry, and agriculture. They not only show how neoliberalism has
affected Chile's labor force in general but also how it has damaged
the environment and imposed special burdens on women. Painting a
sobering picture of the two Chiles--one increasingly rich, the
other still mired in poverty--these essays suggest that the Chilean
miracle may not be as miraculous as it seems.
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"Contributors.
Paul Drake
Volker Frank
Thomas Klubock
Rachel Schurman
Joel Stillerman
Heidi Tinsman
Peter Winn
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