The nation-states and peoples of South and Central America, Cuba, Haiti and the Dominican Republic, that together form the political geographical region of Latin America, encompass a wide range of societies, politics and economies. This text exposes the differences between places, regions and countries, individuals and societies, offering an invaluable insight into the themes of political and economic development, and provides a guide to understanding power and space relations. From the Antarctic to the tropical jungles, the coastal communities to the highland villages, the mega-cities to isolated rural existence, the political geographies of lives, localities, cities and rurality are too sophisticated to be subjected to generalizations. Adopting a critical human geography perspective, Jonathon Barton provides an understanding of similarities, difference and sophisticated human geographies.
Biography
Jonathan R. Barton is Senior Research Associate in the School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia.
' Barton's textbook on Latin America is a very welcome addition to the geographical, literature on this large and diverse region...teachers of political geography and Latin America will find much useful material (especially on civil society and local government) to draw upon in the preparation of lectures and seminars. - International Affairs
' Exploring the diversity of the nation-states and peoples of South and Central America, Cuba, Haiti and the Dominican Republic, A Political Geography of Latin America offers an insight into political and economic development in the region. This student text takes a human geography perspective and tackles such subjects as pre-Columbian geopolitics, colonialism, the debt crisis and land tenure and reform. - Geographical, September 1997
