Cambridge University Press, 1996. - 727 pp.
Volume VII is the first to appear of the four volumes on Latin America since 1930. Part One consists of two chapters on Mexico: the first examines the course of the Revolution during the 1930s, and especially during the administration of Lazaro Cardenas (1934-40), the impact on Mexico
of the Second World War, and the nature of the immediate postwar conjuncture; the second examines the period since 1946, with emphasis on economic growth (until the 1980s), social change and political stability. Part Two has a general overview of economic and political developments in Central America from the 1930s to the 1980s and separate chapters on the
histories of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. Part Three has two chapters on Cuba - the first on the period from the dictatorship of Machado to the dictatorship of Batista, the second on the Revolution - and chapters on the Dominican Republic, on Haiti and on
Puerto Rico. Pan Four is devoted to Panama, with chapters on the history of the republic since its creation in 1903 and on the history of the Panama Canal Zone.
Volume VII is the first to appear of the four volumes on Latin America since 1930. Part One consists of two chapters on Mexico: the first examines the course of the Revolution during the 1930s, and especially during the administration of Lazaro Cardenas (1934-40), the impact on Mexico
of the Second World War, and the nature of the immediate postwar conjuncture; the second examines the period since 1946, with emphasis on economic growth (until the 1980s), social change and political stability. Part Two has a general overview of economic and political developments in Central America from the 1930s to the 1980s and separate chapters on the
histories of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. Part Three has two chapters on Cuba - the first on the period from the dictatorship of Machado to the dictatorship of Batista, the second on the Revolution - and chapters on the Dominican Republic, on Haiti and on
Puerto Rico. Pan Four is devoted to Panama, with chapters on the history of the republic since its creation in 1903 and on the history of the Panama Canal Zone.