Examines urgent contemporary issues like economics and the environment, as well as the long-term factors that have molded Latin America as we find it today: early civilizations, imperial domination, the struggle for independence, and the political turbulence of the twentieth century. Coverage is provided also of music and literature, architecture, painting, and intellectual life. (adapted from summary)

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A helpful list of 62 themes with their included entries precedes the entries themselves, which are arranged alphabetically. Among the themes: the arts; 20th-century decades; cultural institutions; education; the economy; food and drink; fashion and design; language and national identity; media, politics and history; religion, sport and leisure; and, a particularly large category, writers. (booknews.com)

Major resource for information on Latin American history and culture. Of 5824 entries, 3322 are biographies, with equal treatment given throughout to people and countries that are Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking as well as non-Spanish-speaking Caribbean countries. (adapted from booknews.com summary)