Latin America's quest for independence is revealed through the national struggles of Mexico, Spanish Central and South America, and Brazil. Excerpted from the C

Describes the lives and deaths of the seven Liberators, the men who led Latin America's fight for independence and won it in a span of only twenty years after t

This Oxford Handbook comprehensively examines the field of Latin American history.

"Rarely has the story of Latin American independence been told so richly and with such a plurality of voices. Chambers and Chasteen have expertly woven a compre

This book offers an innovative, thematic approach to the history of Latin America since independence. It traces continuity and change in colonial legacies that