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Title: surveys are for the knowledgeable by rachel
Review: I was assigned to teach this book. at a community college. I suffered for two semesters with it.It comes together with a primary sources booklet. There is not enough time to do both.A survey of all countries can be done when the students are already knowledgeable in the subject. Sadly, Latin-America is not part of the high-school programs in history. In college, hearing this for the first time , you need the students to grasp the countries one by one not in a bird's eye view style. Otherwise, they are left at the end of the semester with the same amount of knowledge they came in, and if they remember something just from the book it would be very very fuzzy.Therefore, this survey book confuses more than it teaches. The writing is unclear and the way to approach the topics is not rational in my opinion.My students found it dry and boring. Frankly there are better books than this to teach Latin-America.
