The Cambridge History of Latin America Volume 5: c. 1870-1930

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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 scholarship 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.