{"id":2886,"date":"2013-07-23T16:24:25","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T21:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/modernlatinamerica\/?page_id=2886"},"modified":"2013-07-23T16:24:25","modified_gmt":"2013-07-23T21:24:25","slug":"further-reading","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/modernlatinamerica\/chapters\/chapter-5-central-america\/further-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Further Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chapter 4: Central America<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The best starting point for understanding Central America is Ralph Lee Woodward, Jr., Central America: A Nation Divided<\/em>, 3rd ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), which includes a lengthy guide to relevant scholarly and historical literature. For the modern period, see James Dunkerley, Power in the Isthmus: A Political History of Modern Central America<\/em> (London: Verso, 1988), and his The Pacification of Central America<\/em> (London: Verso, 1994), as well as Leslie Bethell, ed., The Cambridge History of Latin America<\/em>, vol. VII, Latin America Since 1930: Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean<\/em> (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1990). The origins of U.S. economic penetration are discussed in Thomas D. Schoonover, The United States in Central America, 1860\u20131911: Episodes of Social Imperialism and Imperial Rivalry in the World System<\/em> (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1991). For an important interpretation of political history, see Jeffrey M. Paige, Coffee and Power: Revolution and the Rise of Democracy in Central America<\/em> (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997). For stimulating comparative analysis, see James Mahoney, The Legacies of Liberalism: Path Dependence and Political Regimes in Central America<\/em> (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001).<\/p>\n

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Guatemala, the largest and potentially richest country of Central America, has recently attracted attention from first-rate historians, such as David McCreery, Rural Guatemala, 1760\u20131940<\/em> (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1994), and Greg Grandlin, The Blood of Guatemala: A History of Race and Nation<\/em> (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2000). The controversial political role of Nobel laureate Rigoberta Mench\u00fa is exhaustively discussed in David S. Stoll, Rigoberta Mench\u00fa and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans<\/em> (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1999). The U.S. involvement in the overthrow of President Arbenz in 1954 has been superbly documented and described in Piero Gleijeses, Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States, 1944\u20131954<\/em> (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1991).<\/p>\n

For a concise historical overview of Honduras, see Thomas M. Leonard,\u00a0The History of Honduras (<\/em>Santa Barbara, CA; Greenwood, 2011).\u00a0<\/em>A pioneering work on Honduras is Dario Euraque,\u00a0Reinterpreting the Banana Republic<\/em>\u00a0(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996). Glenn A. Chambers has examined foreign workers’ participation in the country in\u00a0Race, Nation, and West Indian Immigration to Honduras, 1890-1940<\/em>\u00a0(Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2009).<\/p>\n

The roots of the Salvadoran civil war have been examined in H\u00e9ctor Lindo-Fuentes, Erik Ching, and Rafael A.Lara-Mart\u00ednez, Remembering a Massacre in \u00a0El Salvador: The Insurrection of 1932, Roque Dalton, and the Politics of Memory<\/em> (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2007);\u00a0Jeffey L. Gould and Aldo A. Lauria-Santiago, To Rise in Darkness: Revolution, Repression, and Memory in El Salvador, 1920-1932\u00a0<\/em>(Durham: Duke University Press, 2008);\u00a0Paul D. Almeida,\u00a0Waves of Protest: Popular Struggle in El Salvador, 1925-2005\u00a0<\/em>(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008); and Elisabeth Jean Wood,\u00a0Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador\u00a0<\/em>(Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003).\u00a0The aftermath of the civil war in El Salvador is the topic of several works: Robin Maria De Lugan\u00a0Re-imagining\u00a0National Belonging: Post-Civil War El Salvador in a Global Context<\/em> (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2012) and\u00a0Irina Carlota Silber,\u00a0Everyday Revolutionaries: Gender, Violence, and Disillusionment in Postwar El Salvador\u00a0<\/em>(New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2011)<\/p>\n

Nicaragua\u2019s recent history has been dominated by the legacy of the Somoza dynasty, whose origins are depicted in Knut Walter, The Regime of Anastasio Somoza, 1936\u20131956<\/em> (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993). Among the many books describing contemporary Nicaragua are Rose J. Spalding, Capitalists and Revolution in Nicaragua: Opposition and Accommodation, 1979\u20131993<\/em> (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994), and Thomas W. Walker, ed., Nicaragua without Illusions: Regime Transition and Structural Adjustment in the 1990s<\/em> (Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 1997).<\/p>\n

Immigration to Costa Rica has been analyzed in\u00a0Lara Putnam,\u00a0The Company They Kept: Migrants and the Politics of Gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870-1960\u00a0<\/em>(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002), and in Ronald Harpelle,\u00a0The West Indians of Costa Rica: Race, Class, and the Integration of an Ethnic Minority<\/em> (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2001). Frabrice Edouard Lehoucq has analyzed the political process in the country in\u00a0Stuffing the Ballot Box: Fraud, Electoral Reform, and Democratization in Costa Rica\u00a0<\/em>(New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002).<\/p>\n

The building of the Panama Canal has received magisterial treatment from David McCullough, The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870\u20131914 <\/i>(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1977), while political legacies and complications are explored in Walter LaFeber, The Panama Canal: The Crisis in Historical Perspective<\/i>, rev. ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989). Another recent work on the canal is Julie Green, The Canal Builders: Making America’s Empire at the Panama Canal<\/em> (New York: Penquin, 2009).\u00a0Also revealing is Orlando J. P\u00e9rez (ed.), Post-Invasion Panama: The Challenges of Democratization in the New World Order<\/i> (Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2000). Peter Szok examines African influences in Panamanian culture in\u00a0Wolf Tracks: Popular Art and Re-Africanization in Twentieth-century Panama\u00a0<\/em>(Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2012).<\/p>\n

The U.S. presence hovers constantly over Central America, as demonstrated by John H. Coatsworth, Central American and the United States: The Colossus and the Clients<\/em> (New York: Twayne, 1994) and Mark Rosenberg, The United States and Central America: Geopolitical Realities and Regional Fragility<\/em> (New York: Routledge, 2007). For the attempt by a distinguished authority on U.S. foreign policy to explain the context, see Walter La Feber, Inevitable Revolutions: The United States and Central America<\/em> (New York: W.W. Norton, 1983). The subsequent story is told in William M. Leo Grande, Our Own Backyard: The United States in Central America, 1977\u20131992<\/em> (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998); a less well-known chapter of this complex tale is revealed in Ariel Armony, Argentina, the United States, and the Anti-Communist Crusade in Central America<\/em> (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1997).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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