History-Spanish-Latin American
New Books from Harvard U. Press, Spring-Fall 1999

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LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY
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LATIN AMERICA AND THE WORLD ECONOMY SINCE 1800
EDITED BY JOHN H. COATSWORTH AND ALAN M. TAYLOR
The fifteen essays in this volume apply the methods of the new economic history to the history of the Latin American economies since 1800. The authors combine the historian's sensitivity to context and contingency with modern or "neoclassical" economic theory and quantitative methods
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University
April 1999
16 graphs, 85 tables / 512 pages
cloth: ISBN 0-674-51280-4 / $49.95
paper: ISBN 0-674-51281-2 / $24.95 / L15.50

BITTER FRUIT
The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala
STEPHEN SCHLESINGER AND STEPHEN KINZER
With New Essays by John H. Coatsworth, Richard A. Nuccio, and Stephen Kinzer

Bitter Fruit recounts in telling detail the CIA operation to overthrow the democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala in 1954. The 1982 book has become a classic, a textbook case study of Cold War meddling that succeeded only to condemn Guatemala to decades of military dictatorship. The authors make extensive use of U.S. government publications and documents, as well as interviews with former CIA and other officials. The Harvard edition includes a powerful new introduction by historian John Coatsworth, Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies; an insightful prologue by Richard Nuccio, former State Department official who revealed recent evidence of CIA misconduct in Guatemala to Congress; and a compelling afterword by coauthor Stephen Kinzer, now Istanbul bureau chief for the New York Times, summarizing developments that led from the 1954 coup to the peace accords that ended Guatemala's civil strife forty years later.

August 1999 6 x 9 inches 8 halftones 362 pages

ISBN 0-674-07590-0 $19.95x / £12.50 paper

THE UNITED STATES AND LATIN AMERICA
The New Agenda
EDITED BY VICTOR BULMER-THOMAS AND JAMES DUNKERLEY

The end of the Cold War removed hemispheric security from the top of the agenda of U.S.-Latin American relations. Democracy, trade and investment, drugs, and migration rose in importance. Pressures to eliminate the anachronistic U.S. embargo on Cuba increased. The new agenda also includes Latin America's growing ties to the countries of the European Union and other regions. This book contains fifteen essays by distinguished U.S., Latin American, and European scholars on each of these issues, framed by overviews of the changing historical context from the nineteenth century to the end of the Cold War. Authors include such notables as Harvard scholars John Coatsworth, Jorge Domínguez, and Marcelo Suárez-Orozco; European academics such as editors James Dunkerley and Victor Bulmer-Thomas; and Latin American intellectuals such as Eduardo Gamarra and Rodolfo Cerdas-Cruz.

August 1999 6 x 9 inches 54 tables 420 pages
cloth: ISBN 0-674-92595-5 $39.95x / £24.95
paperback: ISBN 0-674-92596-3 $24.95x / £15.50

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