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)

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)

【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)

E.拉德福德·伯恩斯（E．Bradford Burns，1932—1995年），曾任美国拉美史学会主席、洛杉矶加州大学历史系教授，专攻巴西史、中美洲各国史和19世纪拉美史。获得巴西里约·布朗库勋章。著有：《巴西民族主义》（1968）、《巴西史》（1970、1980）、《l9世纪拉丁美洲进步的贫困》（1980）和《在尼加拉瓜的战争》（1987）等十余部著作和几十篇论文。 朱莉·阿·查利普(Julie A．Charlip)，惠特曼学院历史学教授。著有《种植咖啡：1880～1930年尼加拉瓜卡拉索省的农民》(2002)等。

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)

Wiarda's scope, to say the least, is wide: he covers a broad range of Iberian and Latin American history in a rather compact text, swiftly and with a surprising and impressive amount of detail. It is a puzzle and a paradox, then, that he can at once provide many specifics concerning, say, Jos‚ Enrique Rod¢, the early 20th century Uruguayan writer, while at the same time insisti...(展开全部)

Reggie and Nigel Heath are relatively close in age, but worlds apart in personality. The older of the two brothers, Reggie is a successful attorney with charisma to spare. Nigel has always struggled to step out of his shadow. When Reggie leases space in an office building on London's Baker Street, he finds that the paperwork comes with an odd stipulation: his firm must receive ...(展开全部)

Look at the state of the world right now. It’s a terrible mess, and that’s putting it mildly. There has never been a more dangerous time. The politicians and special interests in Washington, DC, are directly responsible for the mess we are in. So why should we continue listening to them? It’s time to bring America back to its rightful owners—the American people. I’m not going t...(展开全部)

Look at the state of the world right now. It’s a terrible mess, and that’s putting it mildly. There has never been a more dangerous time. The politicians and special interests in Washington, DC, are directly responsible for the mess we are in. So why should we continue listening to them? It’s time to bring America back to its rightful owners—the American people. I’m not going t...(展开全部)