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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Softcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> For this second edition of the book originally entitled A History of Chile 1808-1994 (Cambridge 1996) we have added a new final chapter to take account of developments since 1990 in a broad sweep and we have made some minor revisions to the rest of the text to correct a few factual errors and to update the story. Our aim in this book is to present a general account of Chile’s history as an independent nation-state for English-language readers although we hope that Chileans too will enjoy it. It is our firm belief that the main task of writing Chilean history belongs to Chileans. Yet we also believe that a fresh eye can sometimes be cast over the changing Chilean scene from outside and hopefully our effort has been worthwhile As foreigners we can never claim the intimate knowledge of Chilean society and culture that Chileans themselves grow up with but we have both had a long personal connection with the country going back to the presidency of the unforgettable Jorge Alessandri and this book expresses we trust our strong affection for Chile and the Chileans. We have both enormously enjoyed Chile’s undoubted charm its scenery its literature its music its people’s notable humor and not least its admirable wines the finest our upper nasal cavities tell us in the Americas. Our lives have been enriched and sometimes frustrated by Chilean virtues and failings. We hope that something of this is communicated to the reader. In writing the book we wanted to combine a basic narrative of political events (bearing in mind A. J. P. Taylor’s remark that the historian’s first duty is to answer the child’s question ‘What happened next?”) with de scriptions of the broader economic and social tendencies that have molded Chilean life and that underlie the outward “story. Our panoramic (and doubtless very incomplete) economic and social overviews for the mid-nineteenth century (Chapter 4) and the mid-twentieth (Chapter to) are supplemented by shorter overviews for the so-called Parliamentary period (a section in Chapter 7) and for the end of the twentieth century (a section in Chapter 14). Three short sections on “culture” at different phases are. (SP)