John Charles Chasteen
(born 1955)
John Charles Chasteen (born 1955) is an American translator, historian, and educator. He is a cultural historian of Latin America, and a professor emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Selected works
Americanos: The Struggle for Latin American Independence. New York and London: Oxford University Press, 2008.
National Rhythms, African Roots: The Deep History of Latin American Popular Dance. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004.
(Co-Editor with James Wood) Problems in Modern Latin American History: Sources and Interpretations Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 2004.
(Co-Editor with Sara Castro Klarén) Beyond Imagined Communities: Reading and Writing the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Latin America. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2003.
Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America.
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