Modern Latin America

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OVERVIEW

Tulio Halperín Donghi, The Contemporary History of Latin America

Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

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

Laurent DuBois and Richard Turits, Freedom Roots: Histories from the Caribbean

COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA

Charles Gibson, The Aztecs Under Spanish Rule: A History of the Indians of the Valley of Mexico, 1519-1810

George Reid Andrews, “Spanish American Independence: A Structural Analysis”

Brian Hammett, “Process and Pattern: A Re-examination of the Ibero-American Independence Movements, 1808-1826”

Laurent DuBois, Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution

Fabrício Prado, Edge of Empire: Atlantic Networks and Revolution in Bourbon Río de la Plata

Charles Walker, The Tupac Amaru Rebellion

Cristina Soriano, Tides of Revolution: Information, Insurgencies, and the Crisis of Colonial Rule in Venezuela

RACE AND NATION

Nancy Stepan, The Hours of Eugenics: Race, Gender, and Nation in Latin America

Nicolas Shumway, The Invention of Argentina

Ada Ferrer, Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868-1898

Greg Grandin, The Blood of Guatemala: A History of Race and Nation

Alejandro de la Fuente, A Nation for All: Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Cuba

Laura Gotkowitz, Histories of Race and Racism: The Andes and Mesoamerica from Colonial Times to the Present

Camillia Cowling, Conceiving Freedom: Women of Color, Gender and the Abolition of Slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro

João Reis, Divining Slavery and Freedom: The Story of Domingos Sodré, An African Priest in Nineteenth Century Brazil

Barbara Weinstein, The Color of Modernity: São Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil

CITIZENSHIP, IDENTITY, AND (STRUGGLES FOR) STATE FORMATION

Gil Joseph and Daniel Nugent, Everyday Forms of State Formation: Revolution and the Negotiation of Rule in Modern Mexico

Florencia Mallon, Peasant and Nation: The Making of Postcolonial Mexico and Peru

Florencia Mallon, Fragments of Empire: Capital, Slavery, and Indian Indentured Labor Migration in the British Caribbean

Michele Wucker, Why the Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians, and the Struggle for Hispaniola

Raymond Craib, Cartographic Mexico: A History of State Fixations and Fugitive Landscapes

Brooke Larson, Trials of Nation-Making: Liberalism, Race, and Ethnicity in the Andes, 1810-1910

Brodwyn Fischer, A Poverty of Rights: Citizenship and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Rio de Janeiro

Mark Healey, The Ruins of the New Argentina: Peronism and the Remaking of San Juan after the 1944 Earthquake

Sarah Chambers, Families in War and Peace: Chile from Colony to Nation

INDIGENEITY, IDENTITY, AND CITIZENSHIP

Jeffrey Gould, To Die This Way: Nicaraguan Indians and the Myths of Mestizaje, 1880-1965

Marisol de la Cadena, Indigenous Mestizos: The Politics of Race and Culture in Cuzco, Peru, 1919-1991

Laura Gotkowitz, A Revolution for Our Rights: Indigenous Struggles for Land and Justice in Bolivia, 1880-1952

Carlos Flores Galindo, In Search of an Inca: Identity and Utopia in the Andes

Nicole Fabricant, Mobilizing Bolivia’s Displaced: Indigenous Politics and the Struggle over Land

REGIMES AND REVOLUTIONS

John Womack, Zapata and the Mexican Revolution

Alan Knight, The Mexican Revolution

Matilde Zimmerman, Sandinista: Carlos Fonseca and the Nicaraguan Revolution

Richard Turits, Foundations of Despotism: Peasants, the Trujillo Regime, and Modernity in Dominican History

Jocelyn Olcott, Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico

Thomas Skidmore, Politics in Brazil 1930-1964: An Experiment in Democracy

Greg Grandin and Gil Joseph, A Century of Revolution: Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Violence during Latin America’s Long Cold War

Aviva Chomsky, A History of the Cuban Revolution

Gil Joseph and Timothy Henderson, Mexico’s Once and Future Revolution: Social Upheaval and the Challenge of Rule Since the Late Nineteenth Century

UNITED STATES-LATIN AMERICAN RELATIONS

Stephen Rabe, Eisenhower and Latin America: The Foreign Policy of Anticommunism

Steve Striffler and Mark Moberg, Banana Wars: Power, Production, and History in the Americas

Gil Joseph, Close Encounters of Empire: Writing the Cultural History of US-Latin American Relations

Lesley Gill, The School of the Americas: Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas

J. Patrice McSherry, Predatory States: Operation Condor and Covert War in Latin America

Michel Gobat, Confronting the American Dream: Nicaragua under U.S. Imperial Rule

Greg Grandin, Empire’s Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism

COLD WAR IDEOLOGY, POLITICS, AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

Gustavo Gutiérrez, A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation

Peter Winn, Weavers of Revolution: The Yarur Workers and Chile’s Road to Socialism

Daniel James, Resistance and Integration: Peronism and the Argentine Working Class, 1946-1976

Calvin Smith, Revolution, Revival, and Religious Conflict in Sandinista Nicaragua

Gil Joseph and Daniela Spenser, In From the Cold: Latin America’s New Encounter with the Cold War

Betsy Konefal, For Every Indio Who Falls: A History of Maya Activism in Guatemala

Greg Grandin, The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War

Carlos Iván Degregori, How Difficult It Is to Be God: Shining Path’s Politics of War in Peru, 1980-1999

Lillian Guerra, Visions of Power in Cuba: Revolution, Redemption, and Resistance, 1959-1971

Barry Cannon, The Right in Latin America: Elite Power, Hegemony, and the Struggle for the State

POST-COLD WAR MEMORY

Elizabeth Jelín, State Repression and the Labors of Memory

Peter Kornbluh, The Pinochet Files: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability

Victoria Sanford, Buried Secrets: Truth and Human Rights in Guatemala

Steve Stern, Battling for Hearts and Minds: Memory Struggles in Pinochet’s Chile, 1973-1988

Marguerite Feitlowitz, A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture

Kirsten Weld, Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala

Rachel Hatcher, The Power of Memory and Violence in Central America