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- ISBN 9781041027126
- Weight: 880g
- Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 29 Apr 2026
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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In its second edition, this book provides a comprehensive Indigenous perspective on Latin American political, social, and economic changes from pre-colonization to the present.
Set within a postcolonial framework and enhanced by interdisciplinary insights from anthropology, economics, sociology, and religion, the book delivers a unique understanding of Indigenous histories, resistance movements, transculturation, labor, and political organizations. Its innovative organization into 50-year historical periods facilitates semester-long classroom discussion, while images, maps, textboxes, and linked documents in every chapter support active learning. A new final chapter brings the work up to the present. This approach enables readers to contextualize major historical events and cultural changes within manageable timeframes, providing fresh perspectives that broaden traditional Latin American historical narratives.
This textbook is designed for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying Latin American history, Indigenous studies, postcolonial studies, and related fields. It provides an ideal introduction for students.
Dr. René D. Harder Horst was born on the Navajo Reservation and grew up among the Qom, Mocoví and Wichi in Northern Argentina. He received a Ph.D. in history at Indiana University, and writes about the Native peoples in Paraguay and throughout the continent. Harder Horst is also author of The Stroessner Regime and Indigenous Resistance in Paraguay, El Régimen de Stroessner y la Resistencia Indígena, Military Struggle and Identity Formation in Latin America, A History of Indigenous Latin America Aymara to Zapatistas Ed. 1, as well as journal articles and book chapters about Indigenous history.
