Date published: 2009-01-01
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A History of Latin America, Vol. 1 (ID266)Author: Keen, Benjamin et al. (ID198)
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1737-01-01 - 1737-12-31
Colonial Latin America was harsh
In Latin America the colonial past is not a nostalgic memory but a harsh reality. It signifies economic backwardness; political arbitrariness; corruption and nepotism; a hierarchical social order and attitudes of condescension and contempt on the part of elites toward the masses (2)”42
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