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Latin America Book List
Overviews
1. Reid, Michael. Forgotten continent: the battle for Latin America's soul. New
Haven, Conn.: Yale, 2007.
Independence
2. Adelman, Jeremy, Sovereignty and Revolution in the Iberian Atlantic. Princeton,
NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006.*
3. Blanchard, Under the Flags of Freedom: slave soldiers and the wars of
independence in Spanish South America. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh,
2008.*
4. John Charles Chasteen, Americanos: Latin America's Struggle for Independence.
Oxford University Press, 2006.*
5. Ada Ferrer, Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation and Revolution, 1868-1898. University
of North Carolina Press, 1999.*
State Formation
6. Guardino, Peter F. Peasants, Politics, and the Formation of Mexico's National
State: Guerrero, 1800-1857. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1996.*
7. Mallon, Florencia. Peasant and Nation: The Making of Postcolonial Mexico and
Peru. Berkeley: University of California, 1995.*
8. Luis A. Perez, On Becoming Cuban: Identity, Nationality, and Culture. Chapel
Hill, NC: University of North Carolina, 1999.*
9. Grandin, Greg. The Blood of Guatemala: A History of Race and
Nation. Durham: Duke University Press, 2000.*
10. Meade, Theresa. "Civilizing" Rio: Reform and Resistance in a Brazilian City,
1889-1930. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997.
Mexican Revolution
11. John Womack, Jr., Zapata and the Mexican Revolution. New York: Knopf, 1969.
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12. Katz, Friedrich, The Life and Times of Pancho Villa. Stanford UP, 1998
13. Knight, Alan. The Mexican Revolution: Counter-revolution and Reconstruction
(vol 2). Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1990.
14. Joseph, Gilbert. Revolution from Without: Yucatán, Mexico and the United
States, 1880-1924. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.
15. Olcott, Jocelyn. Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico. Durham:
Duke University Press, 2005.
Labour and Populism
16. Scott, Rebecca. Slave Emancipation in Cuba: The Transition to Free Labour,
1860-1899. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1985.
17. Argote-Freyre, Frank. Fulgencio Batista: From Revolutionary to Strongman. New
Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers, 2006.
18. Klubock, Thomas Miller. Contested Communities: Class and Gender in Chile’s
El Teniente Copper Mine, 1904-1951. Durham: Duke University Press, 1998.
19. Skidmore, Thomas E., Politics in Brazil 1930-1964: An Experiment in
Democracy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007 [1967].
20. Plotkin, Mariano Ben. Mañana es San Perón: A cultural history of Peron's
Argentina. Latin American silhouettes. Wilmington, Del.: SR Books, 2003.
21. Robert F. Alegre “Las Rieleras: Gender, Politics, and Power in the Mexican
Railway Movement, 1958–1959,” Journal of Women's History, Volume 23,
Number 2, Summer 2011, pp. 162-186.
22. Peter Winn, Weavers of Revolution: The Yarur Workers and Chile’s Road to
Socialism. Oxford University Press, 1986.
Cold War revolution and counter-revolutions
23. Grandin, Greg and Gilbert M. Joseph, eds. A Century of Revolution: Insurgent
and Counterinsurgent Violence during Latin America’s Long Cold War
(American Encounters/Global Interactions). Durham, NC: Duke University Press,
2010.
24. Marifeli Perez-Stable, The Cuban Revolution: Origins, Course, and Legacy. New
York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
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25. Eric Zolov. Refried Elvis: The Rise of the Mexican Counterculture. Berkeley
University Press, 1999.
26. Greg Grandin, The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.
27. Skidmore, Thomas E., The Politics of Military Rule in Brazil, 1964-1985. New
York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
28. Carlos Huneeus. The Pinochet regime. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner Publishers,
2007.
29. Mary Helen Spooner, Soldiers in a Narrow Land: The Pinochet Regime in Chile.
Berkeley: University of California, 1994.
30. Steve J Stern, Battling for Hearts and Minds: Memory Struggles in Pinochet’s
Chile, 1973-1988. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2006.
31. Andersen, Martin Edwin. Dossier secreto: Argentina's Desaparecidos and the
myth of the "Dirty War". Boulder, Co.: Westview, 1993.
32. Hal Brands. Latin America’s Cold War. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard, 2010.
Latin America in the World
33. Benjamin, Jules R. “The Framework of U.S. Relations with Latin America in the
Twentieth Century: An Interpretive Essay.” Diplomatic History 11, no. 2 (Spring
1987), 91-112.
34. Smith, Peter H. Talons of the Eagle: dynamics of U.S.-Latin American relations.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
35. Mitchell, Nancy, The Danger of Dreams: German and American Imperialism in
Latin America. Chapel Hill: NC: 1999.
36. Friedman, Max Paul. Nazis and Good Neighbors. New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2003.
37. Gobat, Michael. Confronting the American Dream: Nicaragua under U.S.
Imperial Rule. Durham, N.C: Duke, 2005.
38. Gleijeses, Piero. Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 19591976. Envisioning Cuba. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
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39. LaFeber, Walter. Inevitable Revolutions: the United States in Central
America. New York: W.W. Norton, 1993.
40. Friedrich Katz, The Secret War in Mexico: Europe, The United States, and the
Mexican Revolution. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1981.
41. Jana Lipman, Guantanamo A working-class history between Empire and
Revolution. Berkeley, CA: University of California, 2009.
42. Gilbert Joseph, et.al, eds., Close Encounters of Empire: Writing the Cultural
History of U.S. – Latin American relations. Durham and London: Duke
University, 1998.
Development and Underdevelopment
43. Coatsworth, John H., Alan M. Taylor, and David Rockefeller Center for Latin
American Studies. Latin America and the world economy since 1800. Cambridge,
Mass.: Harvard University/David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies,
1998.
44. Cardoso, Fernando Henrique and Enrique Faletto, Dependency and Development
in Latin America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979.
45. Gootenberg, Paul, Andean Cocaine: The Making of a Global Drug. Chapel Hill,
N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
46. Kouri, Emilio, A Pueblo Divided: Business, Property, and Community in
Papantla, Mexico. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004.
47. Oliver J. Dinius, Brazil’s Steel City: Developmentalism, Strategic Power, and
Industrial relations in Volta Redonda, 1941-1964. Stanford, CA: Stanford
University Press, 2011.
48. Steve J. Stern, “Feudalism, Capitalism, and the World-System in the Perspective
of Latin America and the Caribbean,” American Historical Review, Vol. 93, No. 4
(Oct., 1988), pp. 829-872.
49. Immanuel Wallerstein, “Feudalism, Capitalism, and the World-System in the
Perspective of Latin America and the Caribbean: Comments on Stern's Critical
Tests” American Historical Review, Vol. 93, No. 4 (Oct., 1988), pp. 873-885.
50. Steve J. Stern, Feudalism, Capitalism, and the World-System in the Perspective
of Latin America and the Caribbean: "Ever More Solitary" American Historical
Review, Vol. 93, No. 4 (Oct., 1988), pp. 886-897.