Book Review

Abstract

The book presents a modern history of Latin America right from the period of independence spanning over its early periods of modernization, political developments and revolutions. Rather than being a textbook history that exclusively focus on big political events, the book investigates into areas as wide as gender, environment, democratization etc. In authors own words the attempt is to write the history of everyone. That’s why the recurring concern of the author is about the diversity of historical experiences in the continent and not to overrun these diversities by a dominant narrative.