1. Mallon, Florencia. The Defense of Community in Peru’s Central Highlands: peasant struggle and capitalist transition, 1860-1940. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983. 

2. Roldán, Mary. Blood and Fire: La Violencia in Antioquia, Colombia, 1946-1953. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003.

3. Stern, Steve, ed. Resistance, Rebellion and Consciousness in the Andean Peasant World. 18th to 20th Centuries. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987. 

4. Flores Galindo, Alberto. In search of an Inca: Identity and utopia in the Andes. New York: Cambridge UP, 2010.

5. Thurner, Mark. From Two Republics to One Divided: Contradictions of Postcolonial Nationmaking in Andean Peru. Durham, N.C. ; London: Duke University Press, 1997.
  

6. Chambers, Sarah C. From Subjects to Citizens: Honor, Gender and Politics in Arequipa, Peru, 1780-1854. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University, 1999.  

7. Lasso, Marixa. Myths of Harmony : Race and Republicanism During the Age of Revolution, Colombia 1795-1831. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007.  

8. Castro Klarén, Sara and John Charles Chasteen. Beyond Imagined Communities: Reading and Writing the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Latin America. Washington DC: Johns Hopkins UP, 2003.

9. Thurner, Mark and Andrés Guerrero. After Spanish Rule: Postcolonial Predicaments of the Americas. Durham: Duke UP, 2003. 

10. Mariátegui, José Carlos. José Carlos Mariátegui: An Anthology. New York, Monthly Review Press, 2011. 

11. Hylton, Forrest, and Sinclair Thomson. Revolutionary Horizons: Past and Present in Bolivian Politics. London; New York: Verso, 2007. 

12. Stern, Steve, ed. Shining and Other Paths: War and Society in Peru, 1980-1995. Durham [NC]: Duke University Press, 1998. 

13. Degregori, Carlos Iván. How Difficult Is to Be God: Shining Path’s Politics of War in Peru, 1980-1999. Wisconsin: Wisconsin UP, 2012 (November) [In Press]

14. Coronil, Fernando. The Magical State: Nature, Money, and Modernity in Venezuela. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1997.

15. Carrión F, Julio. The Fujimori Legacy: the Rise of Electoral Authoritarianism in Peru. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State UP, 2006.

• Brainard, Lael, and Leonardo Martinez-Diaz. Brazil as an Economic Superpower? : Understanding Brazil’s Changing Role in the Global Economy (Washington: Brookings), 2009.
• Caldeira, Teresa Pires do Rio. City of Walls: Crime, Segregation, and Citizenship in São Paul (Berkeley: California), 2000.
• Edmonds, Alexander. Pretty Modern: Beauty, Sex, and Plastic Surgery in Brazil (Durham: Duke), 2010.
• Dávila, Jerry. Diploma of Whiteness: Race and Social Policy in Brazil, 1917-1945 (Durham: Duke), 2003.
• Font, Mauricio, et al. The Brazilian State: Debate and Agenda (Lanham, MD: Lexington), 2011.  Chapters by Peixoto, Martes, Machado, Almeida, Leite, and Chapters by Peixoto, Martes, Machado, Almeida, Leite, and Trebat.
• Freire, Paulo. Pedagogy of the Oppressed (New York: Continuum), 2000.
• Graham, Richard. Britain and the Onset of Modernization in Brazil, 1850-1914 (London: Cambridge), 1968.
• Holston, James. Insurgent Citizenship: Disjunctions of Democracy and Modernity in Brazi (Princeton: Princeton), 2008.
• Lesser, Jeffrey. Negotiating National Identity: Immigrants, Minorities, and the Struggle for Ethnicity in Brazi (Durham: Duke), 1999.
• Reis, João José. Slave Rebellion in Brazil: The Muslim Uprising of 1835 in Bahia, translated by Arthur Brakel (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins), 1995.
• Roett, Riordan. The politics of foreign aid in the Brazilian Northeast (Nashville: Vanderbilt), 1972.
• Schwartz, Stuart B. Slaves, Peasants, and Rebels: Reconsidering Brazilian Slavery (Urbana: Illinois), 1992.
• Skidmore, Thomas E. Black into white: Race and Nationality in Brazilian Thought (New York: Oxford), 1974.
• Skidmore, Thomas E. Politics in Brazil, 1930-1964: An Experiment in Democracy (New York: Oxford), 1967.
• Skidmore, Thomas E. Politics of Military Rule in Brazil, 1964-1985 (New York: Oxford), 1988.
• Weinstein, Barbara. “Racializing Regional Difference: São Paulo versus Brazil, 1932,” in  Race and Nation in Modern Latin America, Nancy P. Appelbaum, Anne S. Macpherson, and Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt, eds. (Chapel Hill: North Carolina) 2003. 237-62. 

• Benitez-Rojo. The Repeating Island.
• Frederick Cooper. Beyond slavery : explorations of race, labor, and citizenship in postemancipation societies.
• Lauren Derby. The Dictator’s Seduction.
• Laurent Dubois. Avengers of the New World. 
• Ada Ferrer. Insurgent Cuba.  
• Suarez Findlay. Imposing decency : the politics of sexuality and race in Puerto Rico, 1870-1920. 
• Duffy Burnett and Burke Marshall. Foreign in a domestic sense : Puerto Rico, American expansion, and the Constitution.
• C. L. R. James. The Black Jacobins : Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution.
• Franklin Knight. The Caribbean, the genesis of a fragmented nationalism.
• Louis A. Perez. On becoming Cuban : identity, nationality and culture.
• Louis A. Perez. Cuba under the Platt Amendment, 1902-1934.
• Perez- Stable. The Cuban Revolution: Origins, Course and Legacy. 
• Eric Roorda. The dictator next door: the good neighbor policy and the Trujillo regime in the Dominican Republic, 1930-1945.
• Pamela Scully and Diana Paton. Gender and slave emancipation in the Atlantic world.
  
• Michel-Rolph Trouillot. Silencing the Past.

• James Dunkerley. Power in the Isthmus: A Political History of Modern Central America. Brooklyn/London: Verso, 1989.
• Dario Euraque. Reinterpreting the Banana Republic: Region and state in Honduras, 1870-1972.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
• Piero Gleijeses. Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States, 1944-1954. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991.
• Jeffrey L. Gould. To Lead As Equals: Rural Protest and Political Consciousness in Chinandega, Nicaragua, 1912-1979. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990.  
• Jeffrey L. Gould and Aldo Lauria-Santiago. To Rise in Darkness: Revolution, Repression, and Memory in El Salvador, 1920-1932. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008.  
• Greg Grandin. The Blood of Guatemala: A History of Race and Nation. Durham: Duke University Press, 2000.   
• Greg Grandin. The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War, updated edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, [2004] 2011. 
• Greg Grandin. Who is Rigoberta Menchú. Brooklyn/London, 2011. 
• Walter LaFeber. Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America, 2nd ed. New York: Norton, [1983] 1993. 
• Walter LaFeber. The Panama Canal: The Crisis in Historical Perspective, updated ed. New York: Oxford University Press [1978] 1990.
• Aims McGuinness. Path of Empire: Panama and the California Gold Rush. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008. 
• Aldo Lauria-Santiago and Leigh Binford. Landscapes of Struggle:  Politics, Society, and Community in El Salvador. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004.
• David McCreery. Rural Guatemala, 1760-1940. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990. 
• Rigoberta Menchú. I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala, 2nd ed. Brooklyn/London Verso, [1984] 2009.
• Knut Walter.  The Regime of Anastasio Somoza, 1936-1956. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993.

• Mark Berger. Under Northern Eyes: Latin American Studies and U.S. Hegemony in the Americas. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1995.
• Elizabeth Cobbs. The Rich Neighbor Policy: Rockefeller and Kaiser in Brazil. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.
• Herbert Eugene Bolton. “The Epic of Greater America,” American Historical Review 38.1 (January 1933): 448-74. 
• Arturo Escobar. Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995.
• Leon Fink. The Maya of Morganton: Work and Community in the Nuevo New South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.
• Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof. A Tale of Two Cities: Santo Domingo and New York after 1950. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. 
• Paul Gootenberg. Andean Cocaine: The Making of a Global Drug. Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
• Greg Grandin. The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.
• Gilbert Joseph, Catherine LeGrand, Ricardo Salvatore, eds. Close Encounters of Empire: Writing the Cultural History of U.S.Latin American Relations. Durham: Duke University ​Press, 1998.
• Gilbert M. Joseph and Daniela Spenser, eds. In from the Cold: Latin America’s New Encounter with the Cold War. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008.
• Eldon Kenworthy. America/Américas: Myth in the Making of U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Latin America. University Park: Penn State University Press, 1995.
• Walter LaFeber. Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America. 2nd ed. New York: Norton 1993. 
• Lester Langley. America and the Americas The United States in the Western Hemisphere. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1989.
• Alan L. McPherson. Yankee no!: Anti-Americanism in U.S.-Latin American Relations. ​Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003.
• Walter C. Mignolo. The Idea of Latin America. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005.
• Julio Moreno. Yankee Don't Go Home!: Mexican Nationalism, American Business Culture, and the Shaping of Modern Mexico, 1920-1950. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina ​Press, 2003. 
• Louis A. Pérez, Jr. On Becoming Cuban: Identity, Nationality, and Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. 
• Stephen Rabe. The Most Dangerous Area in the World: John F. Kennedy Confronts Communist Revolution in Latin America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.  
• William Roseberry. “Americanization in the Americas,” in Anthropologies and Histories: Essays in Culture, History, and Political Economy. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1989, 80-121. 
• Emily S. Rosenberg. Financial Missionaries to the World: The Politics and Culture of Dollar Diplomacy, 1900-1930. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999.
• Ramón Saldívar. The Borderlands of Culture: Américo Paredes and the Transnational Imaginary. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006.
• Micol Seigel. Uneven Encounters: Making Race and Nation in Brazil and the United States. Durham: Duke University Press, 2010.
• Arthur Whitaker, "Meaning and Origin of the Western Hemisphere Idea" from The Western ​Hemisphere Idea: Its Rise and Decline. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1954, 1-20.

• Bartra, Armando. Los Herederos De Zapata. Mexico City: Era, 1985.
• Bethell, Leslie, ed. Mexico Since Independence. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.   
• Coatsworth, John H. Los orígenes del atraso. Nueve ensayos de historia económica de México. México: Alianza, 1990. 
• Guerra, François-Xavier. México: Del Antiguo Régimen a la Revolución. México: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1991 [2a ed. 2001]
• Hale, Charles. Mexican Liberalism in the age of Mora. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1968.  
• Hamilton, Nora. Mexico: Political, Social and Economic Evolution. New York. Oxford University Press, 2011. 
• Katz, Friedrich, ed. Riot, Rebellion, and Revolution: Rural Social Conflict in Mexico. Princeton, 1988.  
• Knight, Alan. “The Peculiarities of Mexican History: Mexico Compared to Latin América, 1821-1992”, Journal of Latin American Studies 2 (1992), 99-144.
• Knight, Alan. The Mexican Revolution. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1986.
• Middlebrook, Kevin J. The Paradox of Revolution: Labor, the State, and Authoritarianism in Mexico. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
• Purnell, Jennie. Popular Movements and State Formation in Revolutionary Mexico: The Agraristas and Cristeros of Michoacán. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999. 
• Rubin, Jeffrey. Decentering the Regime: Ethnicity, Radicalism, and Democracy in Juchitán, Mexico. Durham: Duke, 1997. 
• Tutino, John. From Insurrection to Revolution in Mexico: Social Bases of Agrarian Violence, 1750-1940. Princeton: 1986. 
• Vaughan, Mary Kay. Cultural Politics in Revolution: Teachers, Peasants, and Schools in Mexico, 1930-1940. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1997. 
• Womack Jr., John. Zapata and the Mexican Revolution. New York: Vintage, 1970.  

• Jonathan Brown. A Socioeconomic History of Argentina, 1776-1860.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980.
• Simon Collier and William Sater. A History of Chile, 1802-2002. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
• Alejandro Carlos Díaz. Essays on the Economic History of Argentina. New Haven: Yale, 1970.
• Sandra McGee Deutsch. Las Derechas: The Extreme right in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, 1890-1939. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999.
• Hilda Sábato, Agrarian Capitalism and the World Market: Buenos Aires in the Pastoral Stage, 1840-1890.  Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1991.
• Asunción Lavrin. Women, Feminism, and Social Change in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, 1890-1940.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995.
• Steven Levitsky and Maria Victoria Murillo, eds. Argentine Democracy: The Politics of Institutional Weakness. State College: Penn State University Press, 2006.
• Brian Loveman. Chile: The Legacy of Hispanic Capitalism, 3rd ed. New York: Oxford, 2001.
• Nara Milanich. Children of Fate: Childhood, Class, and the State in Chile, 1850–1930. Durham, 2009.
• José Moya. Cousins and Strangers: Spanish Immigrants in Buenos Aires, 1850-1930. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998
• Gabriela Nouzeilles and Graciela Montaldo, eds., The Argentina Reader:  History, Culture, Politics. Durham: Duke University Press, 2002.
• Guillermo O’Donnell. Bureaucratic Authoritarianism: Argentina, 1966-1973, in Comparative Perspective. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.
• Gerardo della Paolera and Alan M. Taylor, eds. A New Economic History of Argentina. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
• Jody Pavilak. Mining for the Nation: The Politics of Chile’s Coal Communities from the Popular Front to the Cold War. State College: Penn State Press, 2011.
• Alejandro Portes, "Latin American Class Structures: Their Composition and Change during the Last Decade." Latin American Research Review 20, 1985, pp. 7-39.
• Alejandro Portes and Kelly Hoffman, “Latin American Class Structures: Their Composition and Change during the Neoliberal Era,” Latin American Research Review 38: 1, 2003, pp. 41-82. 
• David Rock. Argentina, 1516-1987: From Spanish Colonization to Alfonsín. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.
• Alan Taylor. 1994. "Tres fases del crecimiento economico argentino." Revista de Historia Económica 12.3 (1994): 649-83.
• Peter Winn. Weavers of Revolution: The Yarur Workers and Chile's Road to Socialism.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.