Politics

Caudillos

Brandenberg, Frank    The Making of Modern Mexico

 

Chapman, Charles E.    The Age of Caudillos: A Chapter in Hispanic American History

 

Hamil, Hugh M.    Caudillos: Dictators in Spanish America

 

Lynch, John    Caudillos in Spanish America, 180-1850

 

Meyer, Lorenzo    Historic Roots of Authoritarianism in Mexico

 

Wilgus, Curtis, ed.    South American Dictators During the First Century of Independence

 

 Militarism

Johnson, John    The Role of the Military in Underdeveloped Countries

 

Lieuwen, Edwin    Arms and Politics in Latin America

 

Lowenthal, Abraham    Armies and Politics in Latin America

 

Millet, Richard    Guardians of the Dynasty: a History of the US-Created Guardia Nacional de Nicaragua and the Somosa Family

 

Rouquie, Alain    The Military and the State in Latin America

 

Skidmore, Thomas    The Politics of Military Rule in Brazil

 

Populism

Anderson, Benedict    Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism

 

Cline, Howard    Mexico: Revolution to Evolution 1940-1960

 

Malloy, James, ed.    Authoritarianism and Corporatism in Latin America

 

Schoultz, Lars    The Populist Challange

 

Stein, Steve    Populism in Peru: The Emergence of the Masses and the Politics of Social Control

 

Van Niererk, A. E.    Populism and Political Development in Latin America   

 

Wolf, Eric    Sons of the Shaking Earth

 

Economic Development

 Export and Dependency

 Blakemore, Harold    British Nitrates and Chilean Politics, 1886-1896

 

Cardoso, Fernando Henrique, and Enzo Faletto    Dependency and Development in Latin America

 

Gunter Frank, Andre    Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America

 

Levin, Jonathan V.    The Export Economies: Their Pattern of Development in Historical Perspective

 

Sanderson, Steven E.    The Politics of Trade in Latin America   

 

Labor and Labor System

Bauer, Arnold J.    Land and Labor in Rural Chile. 1850-1935

 

Berquist, Charles    Labor in Latin America: Comparitive Essays on Chile, Argentina,           Venezuela,and Columbia

 

Burns, E. Bradford    The Poverty of Progress

 

Chomsky, Aviva    West Indian Workers and the Unite Fruit Company in Costa Rica, 1870-1940

 

Nash, June    We Eat the Mines and the Mines Eat Us: Dependency and Exploitation in Bolivian Tin mines

 

O’Brien, Thomas F.    The Nitrate Industry an Chile’s Crucial Transition, 1870-1890

 

Agrarian

Alexander, Robert    Agrarian Reform in Latin America

 

Keith, Robert G. Ed.    Haciendas and Plantation in Latin American History

 

Lockhart, James    Encomienda and Hacienda: the Evolution of the Great Estate in the Spanish Indies

 

Stein, Stanley J.    Vassouras, a Brazilian Coffee Country, 1850-1900: The Roles of Planter and Slave in a Plantation Society

 

Wolf, Eric and Sidney W. Mintz    Haciendas and Plantations in Middle America and Antilles

 

United States-Latin American Relations

 

Bemis, Samual Flagg    The Latin American Policy of the United States

 

Blasier, Cole    The Hovering Giant: U.S. Responses to Revolutionary Change in Latin America

 

Blachman, Morris J.    Confronting Revolution, Security Through Diplomacy in Central   America

 

Crichfield, George, W.    American Supremacy: The Rise and Progress of the L.A. Republics and Their Reactions to the U.S. Under the Monroe Doctrine

 

Honey, Martha    Hostile Acts: U.S. Policy in Costa Rica in the 1980s

 

LaFeber, Walter    Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America

 

Langley, Lester D.    America and the Americas: The U.S. In the Western Hemisphere

 

Leacock, Ruth    Requiem for Revolution: The U.S. and Brazil, 1961-1969

 

Niess, Frank    A Hemisphere to Itself, A History of U.S.-Latin American Relations

 

O’brien, Thomas F.    The Revolutionary Mission: American Enterprise in Latin America, 1900-1945

 

Schoultz, Lars    Beneath the United States: A History of U.S. Policy Toward Latin America


 


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