First published in 1967. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The first full-length survey of Britain's role in Latin America as a whole from the early 1800s to the 1950s, when influence in the region passed to the United

"Rarely has the story of Latin American independence been told so richly and with such a plurality of voices. Chambers and Chasteen have expertly woven a compre

This book explores the surprising similarities in the political ideas of the American and Latin American independence movements.

Latin America's quest for independence is revealed through the national struggles of Mexico, Spanish Central and South America, and Brazil. Excerpted from the C