In this book Victor Bulmer-Thomas uses his previously unpublished estimates of the national accounts to explore economic and social development in the five Cent

This book provides a historical background to recent Central American social unrest, repression, and revolution to help readers engage in current arguments, cla

The collapse of political institutions and the failure of economic development models in Central America have turned the region into an ideological battleground

The cold war between the United States and the Soviet Union provided the context for U.S. policies toward Central America from the 1950s to the 1980s. Nonethele

A study explaining how the social upheavals which led to the Nicaraguan revolution and the civil wars in El Salvador and Guatemala were rooted in the export-led