The CLAH Teaching Committee serves as a clearinghouse for information useful to classroom instructors who teach Latin American history. This Textbook Review section is designed to facilitate communication with textbook publishers and encourage interaction among Latin American history teachers and between them and textbook authors. It allows teachers to share their classroom experiences with various textbooks common to the field, to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of each, and to make constructive suggestions for improving them. It also enables faculty to click on the textbook publisher’s name to contact the publisher directly to order examination or desk copies.

We invite you to submit a brief review of a particular textbook to marc@yachana.org. All comments must carry the author’s name,institutional affiliation, and e-mail address. They will be reviewed by a Teaching Committee member and, if necessary, edited before posting.

Bakewell, Peter . A History of Latin America: Empires and Sequels, 1450-1930. Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers, 1997. xxiii, 520 p., [12] p. of plates :. ill., maps ; 26 cm..
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Beezley, William H. and Judith Ewell. The Human Tradition in Modern Latin America Wilmington, Del.: SR Books, 1997. 277 p.:. bibl., index..
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Beezley, William H. and Colin MacLachlan. Latin America: The Peoples and their History. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 2000. 324 p.:. bibl., ill., index, maps.. 24 cm.
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Boyer, Richard & Geoffrey Spurling, ed. Colonial Lives: Documents on Latin American History, 1550-1850. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 368 pp.; 5 maps, & 17 figures.
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Brown, Jonathan C. Colonial Latin America Fort Worth : Harcourt College Publishers, 2000. xxii, 473 p. :. ill., maps.
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Burkholder, Mark A. and Lyman L. Johnson. Colonial Latin America. 4th ed.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. 360 p.:. bibl., ill., index.
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Burns, E. Bradford & Julie A. Charlip Latin America: A Concise Interpretive History. 7th edition. New York: Prentice Hall, 2001.
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Bushnell, David and Neill Macaulay. The Emergence of Latin America in the Nineteenth Century. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. 341 p.:.bibl., index, map
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Chasteen, John Charles. Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2001.
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Clayton, Lawrence A. & Michael Conniff. A History of Modern Latin America.
Fort Worth, TX : Harcourt Brace College Humanities, 1999. xvi, 560, [45] p.:
ill.; 24 cm..
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Keen, Benjamin & Keith Haynes. A History of Latin America. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 2000.
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Miller, Francesca. Latin American Women and the Search for Social Justice.
Hanover: Univ. Press of New England, 1991. 324 p.:. bibl., ill., index, maps.
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Mills, Kenneth & William B. Taylor, eds. Colonial Spanish America: A
Documentary History. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 1998.
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Navarro, Marysa & Virginia Sanchez. Women in Latin America and the Caribbean: Restoring Women to History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999. xvii, 128 p. :. maps ;. 24 cm.
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Schwartz, Stuart and James Lockhart, Early Latin America. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
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Skidmore, Thomas E. & Peter H. Smith. Modern Latin America 5th ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. xi, 466 p. :. ill., maps ;. 25 cm.
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Socolow, Susan Migden. The Women of Colonial Latin America. New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
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Williamson, Edwin.The Penguin History of Latin America. London: Penquin, 1993.
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Winn, Peter. Americas: The Changing Face of Latin America and the Caribbean. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. 639 p., 24 p. of plates:. bibl., ill. (some col.), index, maps..
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