Accounts of U.S. empire building in Latin America typically portray politically and economically powerful North Americans descending on their southerly neighbors to engage in lopsided negotiations. Dennis Merrill's comparative history of U.S. tourism in L

First published in 1977, this reissue contains original articles by contemporary leading scholars in the field of Latin American politics on a range of topics including: working class organisation, populism and US labour imperialism. It will be of interest to anthropologists, students of political science and specialists in Latin American studies.

Based on personal interviews and declassified US government documents, this book, first published in 1994, studies US policy toward Nicaragua during the Nixon, Ford, and Carter presidencies.

A clear and detailed study of Latin American women’s history from the late nineteenth century to the present.