The Cambridge History of Latin America

This volume looks at Latin American history from c. 1870 to 1930.

Leslie Bethell (Edited by)

9780521232258, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 29 May 1986

696 pages
23.6 x 16.1 x 4.4 cm, 1.12 kg

"When publication is complete the Cambridge History will stand alone as a commanding survey of historical knowledge of the region and guide to its bibliography. Individual chapters are never less than authoritative, while some are models of concise scholarship. The editor has shown enormous determination in pursuing his contributors and shaping their contributions to fit in the overall design. On the basis of what has appeared so far, it is a remarkable achievement that demands congratulations and gratitude… a wealth of scholarship, of careful generalization, authoritative judgement and helpful direction… These volumes are a major historiographical achievement." - Economic History Review

The Cambridge History of Latin America is the first authoritative large-scale history of the whole of Latin America - Mexico and Central America, the Spanish-speaking Caribbean (and Haiti), Spanish South America and Brazil - from the first contacts between the native peoples of the Americas and Europeans in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries to the present day. A major work of collaborative international schoarship, the Cambridge History of Latin America has been planned, co-ordinated and edited by a single editor, Dr Leslie Bethell, reader in Hispanic American and Brazilian History at University College London. It will be published in eight volumes. Each volume or set of volumes examines a period in the economic, social, political, intellectual and cultural history of Latin America.

1. Latin America and the international economy, 1870–1914 William Glade
2. Latin America and the international economy from the First World War to the World Depression Rosemary Thorp
3. Latin America, the United States and the European powers, 1830–1930 Robert Freeman Smith
4. The population of Latin America, 1850–1930 Nicolás Sánchez-Albornoz
5. Rural Spanish America, 1870–1930 Arnold Bauer
6. Plantation economies and societies in the Spanish Caribbean, 1860–1930 Manuel Moreno Fraginals
7. The growth of Latin American cities, 1870–1930 James R. Scobie
8. Industry in Latin America before 1930 Colin M. Lewis
9. The urban working class and early Latin American labour movements, 1880–1930 Michael M. Hall, and Hobart A. Spalding Jr
10. Political and social ideas in Latin America, 1870–1930 Charles A. Hale
11. The literature, music and art of Latin America, 1870–1930 Gerald Martin
12. The Catholic Church in Latin America, 1830–1930 John Lynch.

Subject Areas: History of the Americas [HBJK]