Reddit reviews Chile: The Legacy of Hispanic Capitalism (Latin American Histories)

many years ago i read loveman's chile. as far as i remember it wasn't an amazing read, but it was pretty good. i didn't find it particularly biased, although it's obviously written "from the left" - it seemed to back up arguments with facts (it's a "marxist" history in the technical sense - not that it's written by a raving communist [edit: i'm writing this for what i assume is an american OP], but that it cares about the social and economic causes for what has happened (which i think is what you want?); it's not a list of famous people and battles). it covers all of chile's colonial and post-colonial history (i don't remember it having anything about pre-colonial times) so it includes, but doesn't emphasise, pinochet et al, and places that in the context of a ruling class that wasn't exactly keen on sharing power, iirc.

what i thought a good book, although it's a study of chile now, and not a history, is han's life in debt - made me laugh, made me angry, made me cry with frustration (see my review on amazon).

you know, i should read loveman again.