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The idea that a part of the Americas has a cultural or racial affinity with all Romance cultures can be traced back to the 1830s, in particular in the writing of the French Saint-Simonian Michel Chevalier, who postulated that this part of the Americas were inhabited by people of a "Latin race," and that it could, therefore, ally itself with "Latin Europe" in a struggle with "Teutonic Europe ...
Volume VIII: Latin America Since 1930 (América Latina Desde 1930) Edited by Marco Palacios and Gregorio Weinberg. Volume IX: Theory and Methodology in the History of Latin America (Teoraí y Detodología en la Historia de América Latina) Edited by Estevão de Rezende Martins and Héctor Pérez Brignoli
The Cambridge History of Latin America is a history of Latin America, edited by Leslie Bethell and published in 12 volumes between 1985–2008.. Contributors include David Brading, J.H. Elliott, John Hemming, Friedrich Katz, Herbert S. Klein, Miguel León-Portilla, James Lockhart, Murdo J. MacLeod, Jean Meyer, John Murra, David Rock, John Womack, among others.
Stefan Rinke explores the history of Latin America primarily from a transregional and global historical perspective. His research focuses on cultural globalization and North Americanization, popular culture, revolutions, memory and historical consciousness, history of knowledge, trans-American relations, temporality and future.
The Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) created in 2010 is an example of a decade-long push for deeper integration within Latin America without United States and Canada. CELAC was created to deepen Latin American integration and by some to reduce the significant influence of the United States on the politics and economics ...
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent (in Spanish: Las venas abiertas de América Latina) is a book written by Uruguayan journalist, writer, and poet Eduardo Galeano, published in 1971, that consists of an analysis of the impact that European settlement, imperialism, and slavery have had in Latin America.
Following the December 7, 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, most of Latin America either severed relations with the Axis powers or declared war on them. As a result, many nations (including all of Central America , the Dominican Republic , Mexico , Chile , Peru , Argentina , and Venezuela ) suddenly found that they were now dependent on the ...
Reviewer Thomas E. Skidmore says, "The publication of this Encyclopedia is a landmark in the development of Latin American Studies in the English-speaking world. It gives convincing evidence of maturity of the field." [3] Another reviewer praised it for "its focus on Latin America, is an ideal compromise between national and universal ...