"The translation of this classic work is long overdue. Halperin's remarkably skillful at interweaving threads of social, political, and economic history into a coherent whole in a way very few historians can."--Deborah Jakubs, Council on Latin American Studies

Tulio Halperín Donghi is Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley.

John Charles Chasteen is Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.