Peter H. Smith (Latin America scholar)
Peter H. Smith is a scholar on United States and Latin American relations, and the Simon Bolivar Professor of Latin American Studies at University of California in San Diego.[1]
He has been president of the Latin American Studies Association (1989-). He has also been director of the Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies (1989–2001) and director of Latin American Studies (1994–2001) at UCSD.[1]
Publications
Some of his publications include:[1]
- Politics and Beef in Argentina: Patterns of Conflict and Change (1969)
- Argentina and the Failure of Democracy: Conflict among Political Elites, 1904-1955 (1974)
- Labyrinths of Power: Political Recruitment in Twentieth-Century Mexico (1979)
- Talons of the Eagle: Dynamics of U.S.-Latin American Relations (1996; 2nd edition, 2000)
- Democracy in Latin America: Political Change in Comparative Perspective (2005)
- Modern Latin America, co-authored (1984), now in its sixth edition (2005)
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