Books on Latin America for Geography Students
Textbooks
- David L. Clawson, Latin America & the Caribbean: Lands and
Peoples, 2nd Edition. McGraw-Hill, 2000
- Robert West and John Augelli, Middle America: Its Lands and
Peoples (out of print- Prentice Hall)
- Cesar Caviedes and Greg Knapp, South America (out of print-
Prentice Hall, 1995)
- David Preston, Latin American Development : Geographical
Perspectives, Harlow, Longmans, 1996
- Robert Gwynne and Cristobal Kay (editors), Latin America
Transformed: Globalization and Modernity , Arnold, London, 1999
- Thomas Klak (editor), Globalization and Neoliberalism in the
Caribbean, Rowman & Littlefield, 1998
- Brian W. Blouet, (editor) Latin America and the Caribbean: A
Systematic and Regional Survey, 3rd Edition, 1998
- Arthur Morris, Latin America, (out of print Barnes and
Noble), 1981
- Philip Vaughan-Williams, Brazil: A Concise Thematic
Geography (out of print,Unwin-Hyman, 1981)
- Harold Blakemore, Clifford T. Smith (editors) , Latin
America--Geographical Perspectives (out of print, Methuen)
- Anthony G. Coates (editor), Central America: A Natural and Cultural
History, Yale, 1997
- Jan Knippers Black, Latin America: Its Problems and its
Promise, Westview, 1998
- Cathryn L. Lombardi (et al.) Latin American History : A Teaching
Atlas, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press 1984
- Edwin Early et al. (editor), The History Atlas of South America
1998
- Carolyn Hall and Héctor Pérez Brignoli, Historical Atlas of Central America, University of Oklahoma Press,
2003
Specialized topics
- Susan C. Stonich (editor) Endangered Peoples of Latin America:
Struggles to Survive and Thrive The Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn.
January, 2001
- Jonathan R. Barton, A Political Geography of Latin America
1997
- Rhys Jenkins (editor) , Industry and Environment in Latin
AmericaFebruary, 2001
- M. Painter and W. Durham(editors) The social causes of environmental
destruction in Latin America Ann Arbor. University of Michigan Press,
1995
- H. Collinson (editor) Green Guerillas: environmental conflicts and
initiaties in Latin America and the Caribbean, London. Latin American
Bureau, 1996
- William Thiesenhusen, Broken Promises: Agrarian Reform and the Latin
American Campesino, Westview 1995
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