Born in Blood and Fire: Fourth Edition

A Concise History of Latin America

De: John Charles Chasteen

Narrado por: Gary Tiedemann

The most highly regarded and affordable history of Latin America for our times.

Born in Blood and Fire, Fourth Edition has been extensively revised to heighten emphasis on current cultural analyses of Latin American society and facilitate meaningful connections between the Encounter and the present.

©2016, 2011, 2006, 2001 W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. (P)2020 Tantor

Phenomenal place to start to understand Latin America

An excellent historical overview of Latin America. The performance is pretty good as well as the pronunciation of Spanish names and locations is passable, not nearly as rough as many other audiobooks on this topic. Overall I recommend this title

I think I found a new book for my syllabus

I enjoyed the book and the contemporary history was spot on. I thought it lacked on some racial analysis throughout, however.

Good general history

I thought it was very good and not too complicated. I think my students will get a lot out of it.

A must read for all travelers!

Truly absorbing and sweeping comprehensive history of many aspects of Latin America. Covers everything from Mexico south, except the modern success of Costa Rica specifically.

Hidden gem

Stumbled upon this great intro to a complex topic. Hard to put down. Learned a lot.

The thoroughness

Textbook covering Latin America from pre colonial times to 2010’s. Includes vocabulary and study questions. Uses Brazil for many examples.

Good overview

I found the book easy to listen to. I’m going on vacation to Guatemala and wanted to learn more about the history of Latin America. In the end the book served that purpose. Next a more in depth understanding of individual countries.

A Great Introduction to Latin America Post 1st Contact

I found this audiobook very helpful in developing both a comprehensive and individualized
country by country, understanding, of Latin America post European conquest. The historical narrative outlines major events and trends of the 500+ years since that time. The political perspectives are sanguine, and not always what we learned in school growing up in the United States over the past decades, I will probably listen to this once or twice more. The content was first rate and the narration was outstanding.

Excellent synopsis of a very broad history.

Both well performed and written, this book may not be considered unbiased by some but after learning history that was intentionally avoided in my school I suppose its impossible not to feel a bit shocked. Everything was well organized and relevant. I can't say I'd change anything. It gave a lot of information that overlapped with other things I've read lately so now I'm looking forward to reading Open Veins of Latin America as well as several others. I appreciate the narrator a lot as well. He did the reading for another book I listened to and he manages to keep the tone serious without sounding bored, which I think is very hard to do.

Interesting but VERY left leaning

Enjoyed the book and learned a lot of history. But it is so overboard leftist, at a certain point it becomes political. Also not sure that blaming the US for all neo-colonial mishaps is appropriate - the local folks in Latin America had a lot to do with their own juntas and poverty.