Portraits of the nations series

About Author

Ruth Karen was born in Germany, and immigrated to the United States in 1940. She was a graduate of the London School of Economics and the New School of Social Research, where she received a master's degree in 1944. She began her career as a foreign and war correspondent and worked as a United Nations correspondent for The Toronto Star and The Reporter magazine. She became a senior vice president of the Business International Corporation, a publishing, research and consulting concern serving multinational corporations. In 1985 she began her own consulting business, Hagai Associates. She wrote ten books, chiefly about the people, culture, and politics of Central America.

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Books in this Series

The land and people of Central America

Ruth Karen

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An introduction to the seven countries of Central America including a discussion of the people and culture of the Mayan empire.

The land and people of Holland

Adriaan Jacob Barnouw

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An introduction to the history, geography, people, and culture of the unusually flat country whose major struggle has been a fight to regain land from the sea.

The land and people of Hungary

Emil Lengyel

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A survey of a small country in eastern Europe describing her history, urban and rural life, folk customs, and the great men she has produced.

The land and people of China

Cornelia Spencer

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Introduces the history and culture of the four-thousand-year old country known today as the People's Republic of China.

The land and people of Poland

Eric Philbrook Kelly

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An introduction to the geography, people, culture, and turbulent history of Poland, a communist satellite nation.

The land and people of Italy

Frances Winwar

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An introduction to the people, geography, history, and culture of the bootshaped peninsula of the Mediterranean which for centuries was a leader of western civilization.

The land and people of Romania

Julian Anthony Stuart Hale

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Introduces the history, land, customs, industries, and people of the Romanian Socialist Republic, the geographical intersection between East and West.

The land of the Italian people

Frances Winwar

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The land and people of South Africa

Alan Paton

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Introduces the land, history, natural resources, industries, government, customs, people, and racial problems of the southernmost country on the African continent.

The land and people of Cuba

Victoria Ortiz

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The history of Cuba from its discovery in the fifteenth century by early explorers to the present day.