Constable, Pamela.A Nation of Enemies: Chile Under Pinochet. Norton, 1991. Hundreds of interviews make up this study of life under the brutal dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
Falcoff, Mark.Modern Chile. Transaction, 1990. Political history during the 1970s and 1980s.
Meiselas, Susan, ed.Chile: From Within. Norton, 1990. Photographic essay of the years during and after the presidency of socialist Salvador Allende. Includes an essay by Chilean writer Ariel Dorfman.
Burkholder, Johnson A.Colonial Latin America. 4th ed. Oxford University Press, 2000. Comprehensive study of European exploration and colonization in Latin America.
Crow, John A.The Epic of Latin America. University of California Press, 1992. Vivid history of Latin American civilizations, from pre-Columbian to contemporary.
Galeano, Eduardo.Memory of Fire. Pantheon, 1985-1988. Presents Latin American history in anecdotal format.
Hanke, Lewis, and Jane Rausch, eds.People and Issues in Latin American History. 2nd ed. Wiener, 2000. Brief essays on influential people and events from the colonial era to the present.
Gonzalez Echevarria, Roberto, and Enrique Pupo-Walker.The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature. 3 vols. Cambridge University Press, 1996. From pre-Columbian times to the present, including writing in the United States.
Sole, Carlos, and Maria Abreu, eds.Latin American Writers. Macmillan, 1989. A reference guide to biographical information on writers, includes a bibliography of writings and criticism.