Now thoroughly updated in its seventh edition, Modern Latin America is a lively interpretive history and the leading text in the field. Featuring vivid anecdotal illustrative boxes, the book uses case studies to discuss the major countries and themes of the region over the past 150 years. Modern Latin America, Seventh Edition, will continue to be an exceptional text for underg...(展开全部)

【美】托马斯·E.斯基德莫尔是美国布朗大学拉美现代史教授和该校拉美研究中心前任主任； 【美】彼得•H.史密斯则是美国加州大学圣迭戈分校的政治学教授和该校伊比利亚和拉美研究中心的前任主任； 【美】詹姆斯·N.格林则是美国布朗大学拉美研究中心的前任主任和巴西研究会的前主席。 张森根，1937年12月生于上海市。中国社科院拉丁美洲研究所研究员，中国社科院研究生院拉美系主任、博士生导师。常年从事拉美经济和拉美经济史研究。主要论著和译著有：《战后拉美地区经济结构的变化和特点》（1981年）、《小农制和拉美农业资本主义发展》（1988年）和《拉丁美洲历史词典》（合编，1993年）以及中文版《剑桥拉美史》（项目主持人兼校订者之一，1991—2013年共出10卷11册）。 岳云霞，中国社会科学院拉丁美洲研究所研究员，主要研究方向为拉美经济、贸易和投资。主要代表作包括...(展开全部)

Now thoroughly updated in its ninth edition, Modern Latin America is a vivid interpretive history and a leading interdisciplinary text in the field. Featuring stimulating, anecdotal boxes, it uses case studies to discuss the primary countries and patterns of development in the region over the past 200 years. At every juncture, Peter H. Smith and James N. Green continue the impe...(展开全部)

Few milestones in human history are as dramatic and momentous as the meeting of three great civilizations on American soil in the sixteenth century. Latin America in Colonial Times presents that story in an engaging but scholarly new package, revealing how a new civilization - Latin America - emerged from that encounter. The authors give equal attention to the Spanish and Portu...(展开全部)

This best-selling text for introductory Latin American history courses, A History of Latin America, encompasses political and diplomatic theory, class structure and economic organization, culture and religion, and the environment. The integrating framework is the dependency theory, the most popular interpretation of Latin American history, which stresses the economic relationsh...(展开全部)

While the rise and abolition of slavery and ongoing race relations are central themes of the history of the United States, the African diaspora actually had a far greater impact on Latin and Central America. More than ten times as many Africans came to Spanish and Portuguese America as the United States. In this, the first history of the African diaspora in Latin America from ...(展开全部)

In Latin America as elsewhere, politicians routinely face a painful dilemma: whether to use state resources for national purposes, especially those that foster economic development, or to channel resources to people and projects that will help insure political survival and reelection. While politicians may believe that a competent state bureaucracy is intrinsic to the national ...(展开全部)

Beginning with the integration of Latin America into the world trading system centered on Europe and North America during the century before 1930, this 2003 book explores the successes and failures of export-led growth. Using new data on exports and a simple model to explore the relationship between exports and growth, the author pays particular attention to the question that h...(展开全部)

3rd Edition in 2014 This study covers the economic history of Latin America from independence in the 1820s to the present, stressing the differences between Latin American countries while recognizing the external influences to which the whole region has been subject. Victor Bulmer-Thomas notes the failure of the region to close the gap in living standards between it and the Uni...(展开全部)

Barbara Geddes is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles.