The Big Picture
C. COLONIAL PERIOD TO INDEPENDENCE SHORT LIST 1. Diffie, Baily. Latin American Civilization: Colonial Period. New York: Octagon, 1967. "Classic" but useful traditional study for an historical...
...A good, short survey of racial oppression in Portuguese territories...
...Latin American Radicalism: A Documentary Report on Left and National Movements...
...New York: Lyle Stuart, 1961...
...of California Press, 1969.* Best Marxist study of colonial Brazil...
...Buenos Aires: El Ateneo, 1949 and Estructura social de la colonia...
...Press, 1963...
...Leftist view of U.S...
...refers to paperback edition.8...
...Mexico: Centro de Estudios Historicos, El Colegio de Mexico, 1969...
...SEE: D:5...
...Prado, Caio, Jr...
...Underdevelopment in Spanish America...
...Race Relations in the Portuguese Colonial Empire...
...Army Handbooks...
...The Santander Regime in Gran Colombia...
...Trans...
...Williams, Eric E. Capitalism and Slavery...
...La economia colonial de Venezuela...
...Leon-Portilla, Miguel...
...2. Graham, Richard...
...D:19...
...A study of the early years of Spanish conquest and its disastrous impact on the...
...Academic study documenting the formation of large capital concerns in Mexico and pointing out their eventual take-over by foreign capital...
...Gainsville, Fla.: Univ...
...An academic survey of the Spanish population showing the diverse social groups...
...Economia de la sociedad colonial...
...New York: Emerson Hall, 1973...
...Berkeley, Calif.: Univ...
...A well-researched non-Marxist interpretation...
...2. De Castro, Josue, John Gerassi and Irving L. Horowitz, eds...
...Marion Davis Berdecio...
...9 Analysis of the internal mechanisms of dependency by an important Marxist theoretician...
...Vitale, Luis...
...Lewis, Gordon K. The Modern West Indies...
...Lumpen-Bourgeoisie and Lumpen-Development...
...Alvin Eustis...
...Washington, D.C.: Institute for the Comparative Study of Political Systems...
...Boxer, C.R...
...La burguesia terrateniente argentina...
...A basic leftist bibliography...
...Angel Maria Garibay and Lysander Kemp...
...4. Parry, J. H. The Spanish Seaborne Empire...
...Wolfe, Eric R. Sons of the Shaking Earth...
...New York: Oxford Univ...
...New York: Oxford Univ...
...The Colonial Background of Modern Brazil...
...Frank, Andre Gunder...
...Joan Connelly Ullman...
...of Wisconsin Press, 1968...
...Gibson, Charles...
...Buenos Aires: El Ateneo, 1952...
...Three Marxist positions discussing whether feudalism or capitalism characterized early Latin American development...
...Griffin, Keith...
...Sauer, Carl...
...The Aztecs Under Spanish Rule: A History of the Valley of Mexico, 1519-1810...
...Two classics which formed the basis for later research on imperialism and dependency...
...Las venas abiertas de America Latina...
...Approaches to the History of Spain...
...Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Peru, 1500-1914...
...domination written by a left nationalist...
...Brading, David A. Miners and Merchants in Bourbon Mexico, 1763-1810...
...Trans...
...Latin America: Reform or Revolution...
...London: Oxford Univ...
...Independence in Latin America...
...Lockhart, James...
...Washington, D.C.: U.S...
...Furtado, Celso...
...Madrid: Alianza, 1969...
...Lesley Bird Simpson, ed...
...of Florida Press, 1957...
...of California Press, 1970.* Basic background information...
...The Great Fear in Latin America...
...military officers, they cover topics such as labor, religion, media and national security...
...SEE: C:5...
...Historia contemporanea de America Latina...
...A study of the development of the rural social system of dependency...
...3. Frank, Andre Gunder...
...A Comparative Economic History of Latin America...
...Problems in Latin America: The Modern Period.* New York: Harper and Row, 1973, pp...
...Golden Age of Brazil, 1695-1750...
...New York: Knopf, 1966.* A reader which presents a variety of views on the independence movements and their causes...
...Bogota: La Oveja Negra, 1972...
...Bushnell, David...
...Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ...
...New York: Monthly Review, 1973...
...Marxist history of Chile to 1810...
...New York: Cambridge Univ...
...7. Petras, James and Maurice Zeitlin, eds...
...Origen de los "inquilinos" de Chile central...
...A view of U.S...
...389-446...
...Berkeley, Calif.: Univ...
...treats the area as a unified whole...
...University of California at Los Angeles...
...Florescano, Enrique...
...Mexico: Siglo XXI, 1971...
...New York: Vintage, 1969.* A good general collection of articles and documents ranging from liberal to radical analyses of present-day Latin America...
...New York: Knopf, 1972.* A liberal academic's historical and sociological study of the independence movements...
...of California Press, 1970.* A well documented study of primitive accumulation via the formation of large landed estates in Mexico...
...The Shark and the Sardines...
...Chicago, Phoenix, 1959.* An excellent interpretative essay on Mesoamerican pre-history and the colonial period...
...The Economic Development of Latin America...
...Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Economica, 1946...
...8. Arevalo, Juan Jose...
...The Origins of the Latin American Revolutions, 1808-1826...
...Data is generally good...
...A progressive historical analysis...
...of California Press, 1962.* A good academic study of social and economic structures...
...A brief Marxist exposition on differing existing revolutionary analyses with good documentary material...
...Precios del maiz y crisis agricolas en Mexico (1708-1810...
...Latin American Center...
...El estado en el derecho indiano: epoca de fundacion, 1492-1570...
...New York: Modern Reader, 1970.* Basic history of the West Indies by a left-liberal...
...2 vols...
...they are available on just about every country in Latin America and are a valuable source of general information...
...6. Herring, Hubert H. History of Latin America...
...Press, 1964...
...9. Bagu, Sergio...
...9. Election Factbooks...
...Interesting in that it shows how group economic interests influenced their changing attitudes toward independence...
...Santiago: Instituto de Investigaciones Historico-Culturales, Facultad de Filosofia y Educacion, Universidad de Chile, 1951...
...Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1954...
...New York: Putnam, 1966.* A leftist classic on the abolition movement...
...Trans...
...from varying left perspectives...
...Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett, 1969.* An excellent reader containing essays on economics, social structure, dependency guerrillas, etc...
...New York: American Institute for Marxist Studies (AIMS), 1971...
...D:17...
...Randall, Laura...
...exploitation of Latin America...
...Annual Publication.* A compilation based on the latest available statistics covering diverse aspects of Latin America...
...Wolpin, Miles D. United States Intervention in Latin America: A Selected and Annotated Bibliography...
...A left-liberal evaluation of Latin American economies...
...America Latina: Feudalismo o capitalismo...
...Classic" but useful traditional study for an historical overview...
...Prepared at American University for the orientation of U.S...
...New York and London: Cambridge Univ...
...Galeano, Eduardo...
...Best single source for names, dates and political history, lacking in interpretation...
...Probably the best non-Marxist one volume history of Latin America...
...Buenos Aires: Libera, 1967...
...A Survey From Colonial Times to the Cuban Revolution...
...Suzette Macedo...
...The Colonial Heritage of Latin America...
...Periodic studies of recent Latin American elections done by academics and sponsored by a government-funded operation...
...Santiago: Universitaria, 1960...
...Trans...
...Santiago: Prensa Latinoamericana, 1972...
...combats the traditional image of a few Spanish adventurers swashbuckling their way through the continent...
...4. Gerassi, John...
...Spanish Peru, 1532-1560: A Colonial Society...
...The Institute also sponsors a Political Studies Series that focuses on coups and other timely topics...
...Oddone, Jacinto...
...Press, 1971...
...An academic study...
...Madison, Wis.: Univ...
...Government Printing.Office.* Formerly called U.S...
...Revolutionary Ideologies in Latin America" in Joseph S. Tulchin, ed...
...New York: Modern Reader, 1971.* A critique of bourgeois theories of "development" including that of W. W. Rostow...
...London: George Allen , Unwin, 1969...
...Berkeley, Calif.: Univ...
...Rodolfo Puiggros and Ernesto Leclau...
...6. Vicens Vives, Jaime...
...D:12...
...Dependency, Class and Politics in Latin America...
...Press, 1970.* A general survey showing the roots of contemporary Latin American dependence from a leftliberal perspective...
...The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico...
...D. GENERAL WORKS SHORT LIST 1. Area Handbooks...
...The Early Spanish Main...
...Chevalier, Francois...
...Boston: Beacon Press, 1966.* The Conquest of Mexico from the Aztec point of view...
...Traditional summary of Spain's imperial policies and institutions...
...LONG LIST 7. Arcila Farias, Eduardo...
...A solid summary of Mexican colonial society and institutions by a North American...
...New York: Knopf, 3rd ed., 1968...
...Arnade, Charles W. The Emergence of the Republic of Bolivia...
...Academic monograph on the transition from independence to the national period...
...of California Press, 1966...
...ecology and demography of the Caribbean area.I 24...
...A study of the theory and practice of empire as it developed in the early years following the conquest of the Americas...
...Interpretacion marxista de la historia de Chile...
...New York: Collier, 1st ed., 1963.* A general analysis of contemporary Latin American socio-economic conditions written from a left-liberal point of view...
...Essays on Economic Dependence in Perspective...
...Spalding, Hobart A., Jr...
...Trans...
...Statistical Abstract of Latin America...
...Press., 1972.* Best introduction to Latin American economic problems by a liberal economist...
...Latin America: Underdevelopment or Revolution...
...Land and Society in Colonial Mexico: The Great Hacienda...
...Documents the formation of large land holdings in the late 18th and early 19th centuries...
...A technical study showing the connections between economic fluctuations and political phenomena...
...Press, 1966...
...Gongora, Mario...
...5. Stein, Stanley and Barbara Stein...
...Berkeley, Calif.: Univ...
...3. Humphrey, Robin A. and John Lynch, eds...
...Berkeley, Calif.: Univ...
...5. Halperin Donghi, Tulio...
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