An Atlas and Survey of Latin American History makes the geography, the demography, and the political, social, and economic history of the region easily accessible. Each entry and map is accompanied by a brief, carefully selected bibliography.

A Companion to Latin American Literature offers a introduction to the most significant literary works produced in Latin America from the fifteenth century until the present day. The evolution of Latin American literature is traced chronologically in six chapters which introduce the main writers in the main genres of poetry, prose, the novel, drama, and the essay. A final chapter evaluates the post-boom novel, testimonio, Latino and Brazuca literature, gay, Afro-Hispanic and Afro-Brazilian literature, along with the Novel of the New Millennium.

This guide gives a brief and accessible overview of the whole of Latin American Studies. Covering all the possible topics, from colonial cultures and identity to US Latino culture and issues of race, gender and sexuality, this book situates Latin America in its historical, linguistic and cultural context. Written by an international team of experts, the Companion includes time-lines, a glossary of terms and annotated suggestions for further reading.

This three-volume Encyclopedia offers more than 4000 entries on all aspects of the cultures of Latin America and the Caribbean. It covers 40 regions from 1920-2000, and includes food, sport, religion, television, transport, alongside architecture, dance, film, literature, music and sculpture. All entries include bibliographic references.

The original 1995 encyclopedia was an award winner from both the American Library Association and the American Historical Association. This edition adds nearly 600 entirely new topics, replaces some 150 obsolete entries, and also provides substantial revisions to hundreds more. Every one of the 5,700+ entries has been reviewed for currency of content and bibliography. Includes hundreds of photographs, national statistics, and current events.

This handbook covers social movement activities in Latin American countries that have had profound consequences on the political culture of the region. The contributors each address social movement activity in their own nation and together they present a multidisciplinary perspective on the topic, using a case studies. This Handbook is divided into seven substantive themes: 1) theory of Latin American social movements; 2) neoliberalism; 3) indigenous struggles; 4) women's movements; 5) movements and the State; 6) environmental movements; and 7) transnational mobilizations.

The seventeen original essays in The Oxford Handbook of Latin American History survey the recent historiography of the colonial era, independence movements, and postcolonial periods and span Mexico, Spanish South America, and Brazil.

The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Politics offers an intellectually rigorous overview of the state of the field and a thoughtful guide to the direction of future scholarship. Kingstone and Yashar bring together the leading figures in the study of Latin America to present extensive empirical coverage, new original research, and an examination of the central areas of inquiry in the region.

The Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies brings together the most wide-ranging and up-to-date scholarship ever assembled on the colonial, postcolonial and neo-colonial condition, covering the period from 1492 to the present.