Need more background for your history course?

Supplemental Latin American History Textbooks

Our approach emphasizes reading primary sources, not secondary accounts. If you need more historical background on Latin America, here's a list of additional textbooks, many available from D. H. Hill Library. Browse the library shelves beginning about F 1413. Examine each book's tables of contents to see which fits your needs.

More emphasis on colonial era (up to early 19th century)

These offer background but are more relevant to HI 215 than HI 216.
  • Peter Bakewell, A History of Latin America
  • Stuart F.Voss, Latin America in the middle period, 1750-1929
  • Kenneth Mills and William B. Taylor, eds. Colonial Spanish America : a documentary history
  • Jonathan C. Brown, Latin America: A Social History of the Colonial Period
  • Mark A. Burkholder and Lyman L. Johnson, Colonial Latin America
  • David Bushnell and Neill Macaulay. The emergence of Latin America in the nineteenth century

    More coverage of the 19th and 20th centuries

    These are appropriate for HI 216.
  • John Charles Chasteen. Born in blood and fire : a concise history of Latin America
  • E. Bradford Burns and Julie A. Charlip, Latin America: An Interpretive History
  • Lawrence A. Clayton and Michael L. Conniff, A History of Modern Latin America
  • William H. Beezley and Colin M. MacLachlan, Latin America: The Peoples and Their History
  • Benjamin Keen and Keith Haynes, A History of Latin America
  • Lawrence A. Clayton and Michael L. Conniff, A History of Modern Latin America
  • Edwin Williamson, The Penguin History of Latin America
  • John W. Sherman, Latin America in Crisis