Chile

Michael Burgan

Scholastic Library Publishing, Sep 1, 2009 - Juvenile Nonfiction - 144 pages

- A comprehensive series designed to showcase particular features of a country
- Includes maps, timelines, fast facts, charts, vivid four-color photographs, and a "to find out more" section
- Full-colored maps, photos, and interesting sidebars complement the text
- Straightforward, unbiased, and probing prose will provoke readers to think like historians; engaging text will take readers on a virtual tour of the country

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Review: Chile

User Review  - Jennifer - Goodreads

The Scholastic country books are written for a younger age and do not include the same amount of information the Cultures of the World do, but in a pinch, they are fine.

About the author

Mark Overmyer-Velazquez, Ph.D., consulting editor and author of the preface included in each volume, holds a joint B.A. degree in history and in German literature from the University of British Columbia; an M.A. and M.Phil. from Yale University in Latin American history; and a Ph.D. from Yale University in Latin American and U.S. Latino history. He is currently assistant professor of history at the University of Connecticut. Professor Overmyer-Velazquez is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships and has written many articles, chapters, and book reviews on Latin American and U.S. Latino/a history. He is the author of Visions of the Emerald City: Modernity, Tradition and the Formation of Porfirian Oaxaca, Mexico.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Chile; Enchantment of the World. Second Series
• Author: Michael Burgan
• Publisher: Scholastic Library Publishing, 2009
• ISBN: 0531206505, 9780531206508
• Length: 144 pages
• Subjects: Juvenile Nonfiction / General; Juvenile Nonfiction / People & Places / Caribbean & Latin America; Juvenile Nonfiction / People & Places / General; Juvenile Nonfiction / Science & Nature / Earth Sciences / Geography; Juvenile Nonfiction / Social Science / Customs, Traditions, Anthropology