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Surveying the Past: Latin American History Textbooks and Readers

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LATIN AMERICA: A CONCISE INTERPRETIVE HISTORY. By BURNSE. BRADFORD. Fourth edition. (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1986. Pp. 336. $18.95.)

MODERN LATIN AMERICA. By SKIDMORETHOMAS E. and SMITHPETER H. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1984. Pp. 419. $22.50 cloth, $12.95 paper.)

A SHORT HISTORY OF LATIN AMERICA. Edited by KEENBENJAMIN and WASSERMANMARK. Second edition. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984. Pp. 544. $19.95.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 October 2022

Marshall C. Eakin*
Affiliation:
Vanderbilt University
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References

Notes

1. Dana G. Munro, The Latin American Republics: A History (New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1942).

2. Hubert Herring, A History of Latin America (New York: Knopf, 1955; 3rd. ed., 1968); and John Edwin Fagg, Latin America: A General History (New York: Macmillan 1963; 3rd. ed., 1977).

3. Donald E. Worcester and Wendell G. Schaeffer, The Growth and Culture of Latin America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1956).

4. See, for example, Charles Edward Chapman, Colonial Hispanic America: A History (New York: Macmillan, 1933).

5. For another early example, see Latin America: The Struggle with Dependency and Beyond, edited by Ronald H. Chilcote and Joel C. Edelstein (New York: Schenkman 1974).

6. James Lockhart and Stuart B. Schwartz, Early Latin America: A History of Colonial Spanish America and Brazil (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983).

7. For a sample of numerous and diverse efforts to construct courses on Latin America see Latin American History, edited by John F. Bratzel and Leslie B. Rout, Jr. (New York: Markus Weiner, 1986).