The book is organized into thematic chapters that cover the full scope of the region alongside country-specific essays that delve into local contexts... they are succinct and thoroughly cited, drawing substantially from scholarship published in the region and complemented by a thoughtfully compiled index that provides excellent discoverability.
Robert H. Holden is a professor of Latin American history at Old Dominion University. He is the author of Armies Without Nations: Public Violence and State Formation in Central America, 1821-1960; the co-author, with Rina Villars, of Contemporary Latin America: 1970 to the Present; and he contributed the essay on modern Latin America to volume four of The Cambridge World History of Violence.