Bibliographical essays

Summary

This bibliography presents a list of reference articles that enable reader to understand history of Latin America since 1930. The eye-witness accounts of the later 1940s and 1950s tend towards bland travelogues: proof that Mexico was seen no longer as a troublesome nest of banditry and Bolshevism, but rather as a safe haven of tourism and tequila. From 1934, the government of Guatemala rested largely with the military and proved resistant to detailed monographic treatment. Although there is still no satisfactory general work on the years since independence, certain events in Nicaraguan history have attracted enormous attention, notably the proposed inter-oceanic canal in the nineteenth century. There are few academic studies of the changes which have taken place in the Dominican Republic during the last sixty years, and these generally devote more attention to the political process than to the evolution of economy and society. The onset of treaty negotiations in the mid-1960s focused more attention on Panama.