| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 395 pages) |
| Contents |
Doña Marina (La Malinche) : mother of conquest -- Pierre François Dominique Toussaint L'Ouverture : commander of a slave army -- Simón Bolívar : liberator of the North -- Manuela Sáenz : spirit of the liberation -- José de San Martín : liberator of the South -- Bernardo O'Higgins : Chile's Irish liberator -- Domingo Faustino Sarmiento : educator of a continent -- Pedro I and Pedro II, Brazil's emperors : divine right and democracy -- José Martí : revolutionary poet -- Benito Juárez : builder of democracy -- Pancho Villa : political warrior -- Emiliano Zapata : Indian reformer -- Dolores Jiménez y Muro, Juana Belén Gutiérrez de Mendoza and Hermila Galindo de Topete : women of the Mexican Revolution -- Augusto Sandino : the visionary versus the Marines -- Juan Perón : monarch of the working class -- María Eva Duarte de Perón : angel of the "shirtless ones" -- José Figueres : at the center of Latin America -- Fidel Castro : socialist revolutionary -- Ernesto "Che" Guevera : existential rebel -- Bishop Romero : modern martyr -- Salvador Allende and Augusto Pinochet : Ariel and Caliban -- César Chávez : Hispanic Spartacus -- Vicente Fox : breaking the political mold -- Néstor Kirchner Ostoic and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner : Peronist pair -- Daniel Ortega Saavedra : Sandino redux -- Luís Inacio Lula da Silva : Brazil's diminutive giant -- Hugo Chávez : elected leftist |
| Summary |
This book features biographies of 32 of the most notable figures in Latin American history. To the 23 individuals from the first edition, consisting mostly of revolutionary, political, and military figures of the past, are added nine new biographies of contemporary Latin American presidents, providing an updated view of the region's leadership. Several patterns run through the individual biographies. The concept of native identity is an important aspect in the stories of Malinche, Juarez, Sandino, and Zapata--profoundly affecting the politics of modern Brazil, Mexico, and Nicaragua. One also sees a continuing compulsion to rebel against overwhelming odds in the cases of Manuela Saenz, Che Guevara and Daniel Ortega |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Heads of state -- Latin America -- Biography
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Politicians -- Latin America -- Biography
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Revolutionaries -- Latin America -- Biography
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Heroes -- Latin America -- Biography
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Patriotism -- Latin America -- History
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Leadership -- Latin America -- History
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Reference.
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Heads of state
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Heroes
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Leadership
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Patriotism
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Politics and government
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Politicians
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Revolutionaries
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| SUBJECT |
Latin America -- Biography
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Latin America -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85074911
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| Subject |
Latin America
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Adams, Jerome R., 1938-
Liberators and patriots of Latin America
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| LC no. |
2009049834 |
| ISBN |
9780786455522 |
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0786455527 |
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0786442840 |
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9780786442843 |
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