Latin America - Class, State and Development (Hardcover)

The existing frameworks which are commonly used to interpret the contemporary and historical development of Latin American societies are fundamentally misleading. Both the development and dependency paradigms see Latin American history as essentially a unitary phenomenon: a common development pattern, around which minor variations are developed. In this important new book Ian Roxborough argues that this notion of a common heritage has been greatly exaggerated and that the histories of the various Latin American countries are quite distinct and diverse.