Books for Latin American History Courses

Foreign Aid as Foreign Policy

The Alliance for Progress in Latin America

By Jeffrey Taffet

Foreign Aid as Foreign Policy presents a wide-ranging, thoughtful analysis of the most significant economic-aid program of the 1960s, John F. Kennedy’s Alliance for Progress. Introduced in 1961, the program was a ten-year, multi-billion-dollar foreign-aid commitment to Latin American nations,...

Published April 22nd 2007 by Routledge

Engendering Mayan History

Kaqchikel Women as Agents and Conduits of the Past, 1875-1970

By David Carey, Jr.

Presenting Mayan history from the perspective of Mayan women--whose voices until now have not been documented--David Carey allows these women to present their worldviews in their native language, adding a rich layer to recent Latin American historiography, and increasing our comprehension of...

Published October 26th 2005 by Routledge

The United States and Latin America

A History of American Diplomacy, 1776-2000

By Joseph Smith

Providing a concise, balanced and incisive analysis of US diplomatic relations with Latin America from 1776 to the end of the twentieth century, this timely work explores central themes such as the structure of international relations, and the pursuit of American national interest by the use of...

Published February 10th 2005 by Routledge

The King's Living Image

The Culture and Politics of Viceregal Power in Colonial Mexico

By Alejandro Caneque

Series: New World in the Atlantic World

To rule their vast new American territories, the Spanish monarchs appointed viceroys in an attempt to reproduce the monarchical system of government prevailing at the time in Europe. But despite the political significance of the figure of the viceroy, little is known about the mechanisms of...

Published September 14th 2004 by Routledge

Latin America

Development and Conflict since 1945, 2nd Edition

By John Ward, John Ward

Series: The Making of the Contemporary World

Bringing the story up-to-date, this expanded new edition takes into account recent developments including Argentina's 2001 debt default and the 2002 presidential election in Brazil. Latin America provides an introduction to the economic and political history of the region in the last half century....

Published June 30th 2004 by Routledge

Naked Tropics

Essays on Empire and Other Rogues

By Kenneth Maxwell

Series: New World in the Atlantic World

First published in 2003...

Published July 23rd 2003 by Routledge

The Mestizo Mind

The Intellectual Dynamics of Colonization and Globalization

By Serge Gruzinski

Mestizo: a person of mixed blood; specifically, a person of mixed European and American Indian ancestry.Serge Gruzinski, the renowned historian of Latin America, offers a brilliant, original critique of colonization and globalization in The Mestizo Mind. Looking at the fifteenth-century...

Published September 5th 2002 by Routledge

Tropical Versailles

Empire, Monarchy, and the Portuguese Royal Court in Rio de Janeiro, 1808-1821

By Kirsten Schultz

Series: New World in the Atlantic World

This engaging study tells the fascinating story of the only European empire to relocate its capital to the New World....

Published August 23rd 2001 by Routledge

Colonial Legacies

The Problem of Persistence in Latin American History

Edited by Jeremy Adelman

More than other Atlantic societies, Latin America is shackled to its past. This collection is an exploration of the binding historical legacies--the making of slavery, patrimonial absolutist states, backward agriculture and the imprint of the Enlightenment--with which Latin America continues to...

Published February 7th 1999 by Routledge