Presidents, Prime Ministers, and Governors of the English-Speaking Caribbean and Puerto Rico: Conversations and Correspondence Contributor(s): Alexander, Robert J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0275958035 ISBN-13: 9780275958039 Publisher: Praeger OUR PRICE: $94.05 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 1997 Annotation: With this volume, the eminent Latin Americanist Professor Robert J. Alexander concludes a five-volume collection of personal documents and conversations with the leaders of Latin America and the Caribbean. Compiled over a fifty year period, the volumes show major leaders as they envision strategies and future policies, explain their actions, and assess their contemporaries. These formal and informal statements provide insights into the workings of Latin American and Caribbean political parties and governments, and the views of their leaders. Alexander provides firsthand material on many of the most significant political leaders of the Caribbean since World War II, among them Norman and Michael Manley, Errol Barrow, Eric Williams, Cheddi Jagan, and Luis Munoz Marin. No student or researcher of the region should be without access to this and the earlier volumes in the series. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Caribbean & West Indies - General - Political Science | Comparative Politics - History | Latin America - General |
Dewey: 972.905 |
LCCN: 96033194 |
Series: Interdisciplinary |
Physical Information: 1.09" H x 6.4" W x 9.46" (1.42 lbs) 304 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America - Cultural Region - Caribbean & West Indies |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: With this volume, the eminent Latin Americanist Professor Robert J. Alexander concludes a five-volume collection of personal documents and conversations with the leaders of Latin America and the Caribbean. Compiled over a fifty year period, the volumes show major leaders as they envision strategies and future policies, explain their actions, and assess their contemporaries. These formal and informal statements provide insights into the workings of Latin American and Caribbean political parties and governments, and the views of their leaders. Alexander provides firsthand material on many of the most significant political leaders of the Caribbean since World War II, among them Norman and Michael Manley, Errol Barrow, Eric Williams, Cheddi Jagan, and Luis Munoz Marin. No student or researcher of the region should be without access to this and the earlier volumes in the series. |