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- 2009026527 contributor B11424672.
- 2009026527 coverage "Caribbean Area.".
- 2009026527 coverage "Latin America.".
- 2009026527 created "c2010.".
- 2009026527 date "2010".
- 2009026527 date "c2010.".
- 2009026527 dateCopyrighted "c2010.".
- 2009026527 description "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.".
- 2009026527 description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- 2009026527 description "Introducing Latin America / Brian W. Blouet and Olwyn M. Blouet -- Economic issues -- Political stability -- Modernizing trends -- Defining Latin America -- Export economies -- Democracy and Development -- Overview of systemic chapters -- Overview of regional chapters -- Review questions -- Systematic survey -- Physical environments and environmental issues / Brian W. Blouet -- Latin America in the global environmental system -- Environmental history -- Environmental hazards -- Tectonic plates and structural regions -- Major climate and vegetation regions -- Air masses and atmospheric circulation -- Distribution of precipitation -- Soil types -- Natural vegetation types -- River systems -- Environmental determinism -- Sustainable development -- Latin America and global warming -- Review questions -- Historical and cultural geography / Brian W. Blouet, Olwyn M. Blouet, and Charles S. Sargent -- Introduction -- 1491: early American peoples, economies, and societies -- Farming in 1491 -- Hunter-gatherers -- The shaping of the Atlantic world -- Centers of European conquest and settlement -- Impact of encounter and colonial rule -- The age of revolution : new political geographies -- Economic booms in the nineteenth century -- Summary -- Review questions -- International relations and global affairs / Brian W. Blouet and Olwyn M. Blouet -- Introduction -- The origins of boundaries and countries -- Geopolitics -- Relations between Latin American states -- Latin America and the United States -- Impact of World War I -- The Great Depression -- World War II -- The Cold War -- ISI in the 1960s, stagflation in the 1970s, the Lost Decade of the 1980s, and growth in the 1990s -- More U.S. interventions -- The end of the Cold War -- Globalization -- Review questions -- People and society / Brian W. Blouet -- Introduction : change since 1945 -- Population density -- Distribution -- The demographic transition -- Population migration -- Living standards : quality and inequality -- Women and society --".
- 2009026527 extent "viii, 466 p. :".
- 2009026527 identifier "0470387734".
- 2009026527 identifier "9780470387733".
- 2009026527 identifier 2009026527-d.html.
- 2009026527 identifier 2009026527-t.html.
- 2009026527 issued "2010".
- 2009026527 issued "c2010.".
- 2009026527 language "eng".
- 2009026527 publisher "Hoboken, NJ : Wiley,".
- 2009026527 spatial "Caribbean Area.".
- 2009026527 spatial "Latin America.".
- 2009026527 subject "972.9 22".
- 2009026527 subject "980 22".
- 2009026527 subject "F1408 .L3863 2010".
- 2009026527 tableOfContents "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.".
- 2009026527 tableOfContents "Introducing Latin America / Brian W. Blouet and Olwyn M. Blouet -- Economic issues -- Political stability -- Modernizing trends -- Defining Latin America -- Export economies -- Democracy and Development -- Overview of systemic chapters -- Overview of regional chapters -- Review questions -- Systematic survey -- Physical environments and environmental issues / Brian W. Blouet -- Latin America in the global environmental system -- Environmental history -- Environmental hazards -- Tectonic plates and structural regions -- Major climate and vegetation regions -- Air masses and atmospheric circulation -- Distribution of precipitation -- Soil types -- Natural vegetation types -- River systems -- Environmental determinism -- Sustainable development -- Latin America and global warming -- Review questions -- Historical and cultural geography / Brian W. Blouet, Olwyn M. Blouet, and Charles S. Sargent -- Introduction -- 1491: early American peoples, economies, and societies -- Farming in 1491 -- Hunter-gatherers -- The shaping of the Atlantic world -- Centers of European conquest and settlement -- Impact of encounter and colonial rule -- The age of revolution : new political geographies -- Economic booms in the nineteenth century -- Summary -- Review questions -- International relations and global affairs / Brian W. Blouet and Olwyn M. Blouet -- Introduction -- The origins of boundaries and countries -- Geopolitics -- Relations between Latin American states -- Latin America and the United States -- Impact of World War I -- The Great Depression -- World War II -- The Cold War -- ISI in the 1960s, stagflation in the 1970s, the Lost Decade of the 1980s, and growth in the 1990s -- More U.S. interventions -- The end of the Cold War -- Globalization -- Review questions -- People and society / Brian W. Blouet -- Introduction : change since 1945 -- Population density -- Distribution -- The demographic transition -- Population migration -- Living standards : quality and inequality -- Women and society --".
- 2009026527 title "Latin America and the Caribbean : a systematic and regional survey / [edited by] Brian W. Blouet, Olwyn M. Blouet.".
- 2009026527 type "text".