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LATIN AMERICA
PROF. JOANN PAVILACK
Spring 2008
General Studies
Chasteen, John Charles. Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America NY:
W.W. Norton, 2001.
Grandin, Greg. The Blood of Guatemala: A History of Race and Nation, Durham: Duke
University Press, 2000.
Hanke, Lewis and James Rausch, eds., People and Issues in Latin American History: from
Independence to the Present, Markus Wiener Publisher, 2000.
Skidmore,Thomas E., and Peter H. Smith, Modern Latin America, New York: Oxford
University Press, 1989.
Conquest
Crosby, Jr., Alfred W. The Columbian Exchange: Biological & Cultural Consequences of
1492. Greenwood Pennsylvania: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1972.
De Las Casas, Bartolome. A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies. New York:
Penguin Group, 1992.
Díaz del Castillo, Bernal. A True History of the Conquest of New Spain. New York: Farrar,
Straus & Cudahy, 1956
Hanke, Lewis. The Spanish Struggle for Justice in the Conquest of America. Dallas: Southern
Methodist University Press, 2002.
León Portilla, Miguel. The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico. Boston:
Beacon Press, 1962.
Newsom, Linda A. “Indian Population Patterns in Colonial Spanish America.” Latin America
Research Review Vol. XX, No. 3 (1985): 41-74.
Colonial Era
Burkholder, Mark A., and Lyman L. Johnson, Colonial Latin America, New York: Oxford
University Press, 1989
Crosby, Jr., Alfred W. “Conquistador y Pestilencia,” in The Columbian Exchange: Biological
& Cultural Consequences of 1492. Greenwood Pennsylvania: Greenwood Publishing Group,
1972, 35-63.
Silverblatt, Irene. Moon, Sun, and Witches: Gender Ideologies and Class in Inca and Colonial
Peru, Princeton; Princeton University Press, 1987.
Independence
Dubois, Laurent. Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution,
Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004.
Lynch, John. The Spanish-American Revolutions: 1800-1826. New York: W. W. Norton,
1973.
Peguero, Valentina. “Teaching the Haitian Revolution: It’s Place in Western and Modern
World History,” The History Teacher, Vol. 32, No. 1 (1998): 33-41.
Nineteenth Century
Bushnell, David and Neill Macaulay. The Emergence of Latin America in the Nineteenth
Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
Roeder, Ralph. Juarez and His Mexico, NY: The Viking Press, 1947.
Twentieth Century
General Studies
Camp, Roderic A. Mexico: Intellectuals and the State in Twentieth-Century, Austin:
University of Texas Press, 1985.
Petrus, James. ed., Latin America: from Dependence to Revolution, John Wiley &Sons, 1973.
Rock, David. ed., Latin America in the 1940s: War and Postwar Transitions, Berkley: U of
California Press, 1994
Popular Movements
Allende and Socialism
Drake, Paul W. Socialism and Populism in Chile, 1932-1952. Chicago: University of Illinois
Press, 1978
Winn, Peter. Weavers of Revolution: The Yarur Workers and Chile’s road to Socialism, New
York: Oxford University Press, 1986.
Aprismo
Pike, Frederick B. The Politics of the Miraculous in Peru: Haya de la Torre and the
Spiritualist Tradition. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1986.
Cuban Revolution
Dominguez, Jorge I. Cuba: Order and Revolution, Cambridge: Harvard university Press, 1978.
Franqui, Carlos. Family Portrait with Fidel. NY: Random House, 1984.
Oltuski, Enrique. Vida Clandestina: My Life in the Cuban Revolution. John Wiley & Sons,
2002.
Szulc, Tad. Fidel: A Critical Portrait, NY: William Morrow, 1986.
Radicalism and Peronismo.
Alexander, Robert J. The Perón Era. New York: Columbia University Press, 1951.
Smith, Peter H. Argentina and the Failure of Democracy: Conflict Among Political Elites,
1904-1955, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1974.
Turner, Frederick C., and José Enrique Miguens. Juan Perón and the Reshaping of Argentina.
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1983.
Vargas
Levine, R. M. The Vargas Regime: The Critical Years, 1934-1938. New York: Columbia
University Press, 1970.
Skidmore, Thomas E. Politics in Brazil, 1930-1964: An Experiment in Democracy. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1967.
Mexican Revolution
Albro, Ward S. Always a Rebel: Ricardo Flores Magón and the Mexican Revolution. Texan
Christian University Press, 1992
Cockcroft, James D. Intellectual Precursors of the Mexican Revolution, 1900-1913, Austin:
University of Texas Press for the Institute of Latin American Studies, 1968.
Hall, Linda B. Alvaro Obregón: Power and Revolution in Mexico, 1911-1920. College Station:
Texas A&M University Press, 1981.
Katz, Friedrich. The Life and Times of Pancho Villa. Stanford, California: Stanford University
Press, 1998.
Mallon, Florencia E. “Local Intellectuals, Regional Mythologies, and the Mexican State,
1850-1994: The Many Faces of Zapatismo,” LX Conference of Mexican and North American
Historians, Mexico City, October 1994.
Womack,John. Zapata and the Mexican Revolution, New York: Vintage Books, 1968..
Labor Movement
Erickson, Kenneth Pail. The Brazilian Corporative State and Working Class Politics, Berkley:
University of California Press, 1977.
Levenson-Estrada, Deborah. Trade Unionists against Terror: Guatemala City, 1954-1958.
Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina Press, 1944.
Winn, Peter. Weavers of Revolution: The Yarur Workers and Chile’s road to Socialism, New
York: Oxford University Press, 1986.
Militarism
Lowenthal, Abraham F. The Peruvian Experiment: Continuity and Change under Military
Rule. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975.
Potash, Robert A. The Army and Politics in Argentina, 1928-1945, Stanford: Stanford
University Press, 1969.
Skidmore, Thomas E. The Politics of Military Rule in Brazil 1964-1985, NY: Oxford
University Press, 1988.
Stern, Steve. Remembering Pinochet’s Chile: On the Eve of London, 1998, Durham: Duke
University Press, 2004.
Economic development
Erickson, Kenneth Pail. The Brazilian Corporative State and Working Class Politics, Berkley:
University of California Press, 1977.
Hansen, Rodger D. The Politics of Mexican Development, Baltimore: John Hopkins University
Press, 1971.
Stallings, Barbara. Class Conflict and Economic Development in Chile, 1958-1973. Stanford:
Stanford University Press, 1978
Latin America and the United States
Connell-Smith, Gordon. “Latin America in the Foreign Relations of the United States”
Journal of Latin American Studies Vol. 8, No. 1 (May, 1976): 137-150.
Hartlyn, Jonathan, Lars Schoultz, and Augusto Varas. The United States and Latin America in
the 1990s: Beyond the Cold War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993.
Katz, Friedrich. The Secret War in Mexico: Europe, the United States and the Mexican
Revolution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981.
Mecham, Lloyd M. The United States and Inter-American Security: 1889-1960. Austin:
University of Texas Press, 1961.
Perez, Jr. Louis A. The War of 1898: The US and Cuba in History and Historiography. Chapel
Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
Schoultz, Lars. Beneath the United States: A History of U.S. Policy toward Latin America.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press 1998.
Vázquez, Josefina Zoraida and Lorenzo Meyer. The United States and Mexico, Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1985
Wiarda, Howard J. American Foreign Policy Towards Latin America in the Eighties and
Nineties: Issues and Controversies from Reagan to Bush. New York: New York University
Press, 1993