A Companion to Latin American History

The growing number of specialist centres for Latin American studies established in universities in the UK and the USA from the 1960s onwards is testimony both to the region's growing importance as well as to the recognition of its cultural and social development as a subject worthy of academic study. The result has been a growing number of published studies particularly on the social developments taking place within the countries of the region. Blackwell, therefore, is to be congratulated on offering a comprehensive review drawing together the disparate threads of the history of the many nations which make up the...