From the cover sleeve:
This Handbook of Latin America and the Caribbean is the most comprehensive reference work on the area to appear in English. The book is divided into five sections. Part I consists of surveys of each country's history, political and economic development, and special problems, and provides full statistics; imaginatively planned maps, closely integrated with the text, convey information not to be found in an ordinary atlas. The following sections deal with subjects concerning the area as a whole. Part II takes up economic questions - external finance, inflation, foreign aid, banking, and the effects of industrialization, among others - and reviews organizations for trade, banking, and economic development. Essays in Part III treat a wide range of political topics and explore the continent's relations with the United States, France, Britain, and the Soviet Union. Parts IV and V survey the social and cultural background of the area. Individual chapters are devoted to the social and ethnic divisions of the population, to education, religion, sports, trade unions, and the press. There are analyses of the Indian and Hispanic cultural heritage, and the critical surveys of contemporary developments in literature, painting and sculpture, theater, music, cinema and architecture.
Reviewed in The Hispanic American Historical Review © 1969.
Cited in Annual Bulletin of Historical Literature.
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