Western Hemisphere
Mayer, a Yale anthropologist of Peruvian ancestry, witnessed the Peruvian agrarian reform firsthand and returned in the 1990s to plumb the memories of the participants: displaced landowners and their offspring, aging revolutionary peasants, and former union leaders.
Edited by Andrew D. Selee and Enrique Peruzzotti
Now that democracy is the only legitimate game in town, how can Latin American societies fashion public institutions that are at once representative, participatory, and capable of delivering the goods? Here are two compact, smart books that address these critical challenges.
Edited by Carol Graham and Eduardo Lora
A growing literature on the economics of happiness has used behavioral psychology to enrich traditional theories of growth and welfare and produce broader measurements of quality of life. Global surveys now shed light on age-old questions about "the good life," even if, as Graham and Lora are careful to point out, there are many methodological imperfections.
Edited by Andrew F. Cooper and Jorge Heine
Here is an accessible compilation of 17 lively essays by senior international relations theorists that describe how Latin American nations-ever more democratic, divided, and assertive-are interacting with one another and with the fast-changing global system.
The answers to over 120 questions about Cuba are in this splendid primer. Answering each question in, on average, two pages, Sweig displays a talent for succinctness and clarity, as well as a subtle, deep knowledge of Cuban affairs.
