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Chile
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.
García Márquez, Gabriel. Clandestine in Chile: The Adventures of Miguel Littin. Holt, 1987. Incidents from a film director's life highlight conditions in Chile.
Hickman, John. News from the End of the Earth: A Portrait of Chile. St. Martin's, 1998. A British ambassador's introduction to the history of Chile.
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.
Oppenheim, Lois Hecht. Politics in Chile: Democracy, Authoritarianism, and the Search for Development. Westview, 1993, 1998. An analysis of the governments of President Salvador Allende and dictator Augusto Pinochet.
Wheeler, Sara. Travels Through a Thin Country. Random House, 1999. Award-winning travel narrative.
For younger readers
McNair, Sylvia. Chile. Children's Press, 2000. For readers in grades 4 to 7.
Pickering, Marianne. Chile: Where the World Ends. Benchmark, 1997. For readers in grades 5 and up.
Winter, Jane K. Chile. Marshall Cavendish, 1991. For readers in grades 5 to 8.
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Latin America
Burkholder, Johnson A. Colonial Latin America. 4th ed. Oxford University Press, 2000. Comprehensive study of European exploration and colonization in Latin America.
Chasteen, John Charles. Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America. Norton, 2000. An introduction to the complexities of an immense continent.
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.
Keen, Benjamin, and Keith Haynes. A History of Latin America. 6th ed. Houghton Mifflin, 1999. A primer on Latin American history.
Macdonald, Scott B. Fast Forward: Latin America on the Edge of the 21st Century. Transaction, 1997. A study of Latin America's current economy and potential development.
O'Brien, Thomas F. The Revolutionary Mission: American Enterprise in Latin America, 1900-1945. Cambridge University Press, 1996. How U.S. corporate culture changed Latin America during the first half of the 20th century.
Skidmore, Thomas E., and Peter H. Smith. Modern Latin America. 5th ed. Oxford University Press, 2000. Historical survey.
Tenenbaum, Barbara A., ed. Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture. Scribner, 1996. More than 5,000 entries.
Williamson, Edwin. The Penguin History of Latin America. Penguin, 1992. Synthesis of Latin American history for general readers.
Latin American literature
Agosin, Marjorie, ed. A Dream of Light & Shadow: Portraits of Latin American Women Writers. University of New Mexico Press, 1995. Essays on several contemporary authors.
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.
Jackson, Richard L. Black Writers and the Hispanic Canon. Twayne, 1997. Extends the scope of Latin American literary history.
Smith, Verity, ed. Concise Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature. Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997, 2000. Broad coverage of individual writers and topics.
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.
Valestuk, Lorraine, ed. Latin American Literature and Its Times: Profiles of Notable Literary Works and the Historical Events That Influenced Them. Gale, 2000. Analysis of 50 works, for high school readers.
Williams, Raymond L. The Modern Latin American Novel. Macmillan, 1998. Examines the works of modern and post-modern novelists.

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