Introduction
Recommended reading list
Beezley, William H. and Colin MacLachlan. 2006. Latin America: The People and Their History, 2nd
edition. Florence, KY: Wadsworth Publishing
Chomsky, Aviva, Barry Carr and Pamela Maria Smorkaloff (eds). 2003. The Cuba Reader. Durham:
Duke University Press
Crabtree, John and Laurence Whitehead. 2008. Unresolved Tensions: Bolivia Past and
Present. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press
de la Torre, Carlos and Steve Striffler (eds). 2008. The Ecuador Reader. Durham: Duke University
Press
Fowler, Will. 2008. Latin America since 1780. New York: Oxford University Press, USA
Gott, Richard. 2005. Cuba: A New History. New Haven: Yale University Press
Guillermoprieto, Alma. 2001. Looking for History: Dispatches from Latin America. New York :
Pantheon Books
Joseph, Gilbert M. and Timothy J. Henderson (eds). 2002. The Mexico Reader. Durham: Duke
University Press
Levine, Robert M. and John Crocitti (eds). 1999. The Brazil Reader. Durham: Duke University Press
Martin, Cheryl E. and Mark Wasserman. 2007. Latin America and Its People, Volume 2 (1800 to
Present), 2nd edition. Harlow: Longman
Nouzeilles, Gabriela and Graciela Montaldo (eds). 2002. The Argentina Reader. Durham: Duke
University Press
Palmer, Steven and Iván Molina (eds). 2004. The Costa Rica Reader. Durham: Duke University
Press
Sachs, Ignacy et al. (eds). 2009. Brazil: A Century of Change. Chapel Hill: University of North
Carolina Press
Servín, Elisa, Leticia Reina and John Tutino. 2007. Cycles of Conflict, Centuries of Change: Crisis,
Reform, and Revolution in Mexico. Durham: Duke University Press
Starn, Orin, Carlos Iván Degregori and Robin Kirk (eds). 2005. The Peru Reader. Durham: Duke
University Press
Vidal Luna, Francisco and Herbert S. Klein. 2006. Brazil Since 1980. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press