Bibliography of South America

This bibliography of South America is a list of English-language nonfiction books which have been described by reliable sources as in some way directly relating to the subject of South America, its history, geography, culture, people, etc.
*Adelaar, Willem F. H. with Pieter C. Muysken - The Languages of the Andes. Cambridge, 2004, .
*Adelman, Jeremy - Sovereignty and Revolution in the Iberian Atlantic.
*Afolabi, Niyi, ed. - Marvels of the African World: Cultural Patrimony, New World Connections and Identities.
*Ahvenainen, Jorma - The European Cable Companies in South America Before the First World War. Helsinki: Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, 2004. .
*Allende, Isabel - My invented country: a nostalgic journey through Chile.
*Allofs, Theo - Pantanal: South America's Wetland Jewel.
*Anderson, Jon Lee - Che Guevara, A Revolutionary Life. New York: Grove Press, 1997.
*Armstrong, Christopher and Nelles, H. V. - Southern Exposure.
*Attlee, Rupert - The trail to Titicaca: a journey through South America.
*Baim, Jo - Tango: creation of a cultural icon.
*Barlow, Barry H. - Revolution in the Americas.
*Betanzos, Juan de - Narrative of the Incas.
*Bethell, Leslie, ed. - The Cambridge History of Latin America, Volume VIII.
*Blackburn, Robin - The rise and fall of slavery in the Americas: Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights.
*Blanchard, Peter - Under the Flags of Freedom: Slave Soldiers and the Wars of Independence in Spanish South America. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008, .
*Blashford-Snell, John - East to the Amazon: in search of Great Paititi and the trade routes of the ancients.
*Bolivar, Simon - The Bolivarian revolution.
*Bonavia, Duccio, trans. by. Javier Flores Espinoza. The South American Camelids, expanded and corrected ed. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles, 2008. (hc), (pb).
*Boudin, Chesa - Gringo: coming of age in Latin America.
*Bouzas, Roberto, and Jaime Ros, eds. - Economic Integration in the Western Hemisphere. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1994. .
*Burges, Sean W. - Brazilian foreign policy after the Cold War. University of Florida Press, 2009, .
*Bushby, Karl - Giant Steps: an American odyssey from Punta Arenas to the edge of Alaska. Sphere. .
*Cahill, Tim - Road Fever: A High-Speed Travelogue.
*Campbell, Lyle - On South American Indian languages.
*Cardoso, Fernando Henrique - The Accidental President of Brazil.
*Casey, Michael - Che's afterlife: the legacy of an image.
*Castaneda, Jorge G. - Companero: The Life and Death of Che Guevara. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.
*Castner, James L. - Rainforests: A Guide to Research and Tourist Facilities in Selected Tropical Forest Sites in Central and South America.
*Charbonneau, Steven J. - Lust For Inca Gold: The Llanganati Treasure Story & Maps,
*Childress, David Hatcher - Lost Cities and Ancient Mysteries of South America. .
*Chilies to chocolate: food the Americas gave the world.
*Chomsky, Noam - Hopes and Prospects.
*Colby, Gerard - Thy Will Be Done: the Conquest of the Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil. HarperCollins, 1995, .
*Comaroff, Jean and John L. Comaroff - Law and Disorder in the Postcolony.
*Connaghan, Catherine M. and James M. Malloy - Unsettling Statecraft: Democracy and Neoliberalism in the Central Andes. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997.
*Correlli, Gena K. - In the Land of the Jaguar: South America and Its People. Tundra, 2007.
*Curbelo, Nestor - The History of the Mormons in Argentina.
*Curto, Jose C. and Renee Soulodre-La France - Africa and the Americas: Interconnections during the Slave Trade.
*Dantas, Mariana L. R., ed. by Amy Turner Bushnell and Jack P. Greene - Black Townsmen: Urban Slavery and Freedom in the Eighteenth-Century Americas.
*Darwin, Charles - The Voyage of the Beagle.
*Davies, Catherine, Claire Brewster, and Hilary Owen - South American Independence: gender, politics, text.
*Derr, Mark - A dog's history of America: how our best friend explored, conquered, and settled a continent.
*Deutsch, Sandra McKee - Las Derechas: The Extreme Right in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, 1890-1939. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999.
*Dewar, Elaine - Bones: discovering the first Americans.
*Dillehay, Tom D. - The Settlement of the Americas: A New Prehistory. New York: Basic Books, 2000.
*Dominguez, Jorge I. and Abraham F. Lowenthal - Constructing Democratic Governance: South America in the 1990s.
*Drake, Paul W. - Labor Movements and Dictatorships: The Southern Cone in Comparative Perspective.
*Drury, Nevill - The Shaman's Quest: Journeys in an Ancient Spiritual Practice.
*Dwyer, Augusta - Into the Amazon: Chico Mendes and The Struggle for The Rain Forest // Review.
*Early, John D. and John F. Peters - The Population Dynamics of the Mucajai Yanomama.
*Eaton, Kent - Politics Beyond the Capital: The Design of Subnational Institutions in South America. Stanford, 2004, .
*Elliott, John Huxtable - Empires of the Atlantic world: Britain and Spain in America, 1492-1830.
*Farer, Tom, ed. - Beyond Sovereignty: Collectively Defending Democracy in the Americas. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
*Feinberg, Richard E. - Summitry in the Americas. Washington: Institute for International Economics, 1997.
*Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe - The Americas: a hemispheric history.
*Field Guide to the Songbirds of South America.
*Fuson, Robert H. - Juan Ponce de Leon and the Spanish discovery of Puerto Rico and Florida.
*Galenao, Eduardo H. - Soccer in sun and shadow.
*Garber, Paul A., et al., eds. - South American primates: comparative perspectives in the study of behavior, ecology, and conservation.
*Garcia Marquez, Gabriel - Clandestine in Chile: the adventures of Miguel Littin.
*Gardner, Alfred L. - Mammals of South America.
*Gentzier, Edwin - Translation and identity in the Americas: new directions in translation theory. Routledge, 2008, .
*Gibson, Christine - Extreme natural disasters.
*Giesso, Martin - Historical Dictionary of Ancient South America. Scarecrow, 2008.
*Gordon, Theisen - The life of Eva Peron.
*Gould, Carol Grant - The remarkable life of William Beeve: explorer and naturalist.
*Granado, Alberto - Traveling with Che Guevara: The Making of a Revolutionary.
*Green, Duncan - Silent Revolution: The Rise of Market Economics in Latin America.
*Grow, Michael S. - U.S. Presidents and Latin American Interventions: Pursuing Regime Change in the Cold War.
*Guevara, Ernesto - The Motorcycle Diaries: A Journey around South America.
*Guevara Lynch, Ernesto - Young Che: memories of Che Guevara by his father.
*Harrison, John - Off the map: a journey through the Amazonian wild.
*Harvey, Brian, Henk Smid, and Theo Pirard - Emerging Space Powers: The New Space Programs of Asia, the Middle East, and South America. Springer/Praxis, 2010. .
*Heckman, Charles W. - Encyclopedia of South American aquatic insects: Odonata - Anisoptera: illustrated keys to known families, genera, and species in South America. Springer, 2006, .
*Heggstad, Glen - Two wheels through terror: diary of a South American motorcycle odyssey.
*Hill, Geoff - The road to Gobblers Knob: From Chile to Alaska on a motorbike.
*Hill, Jonathan D. and Fernando Santos-Granero, eds. - Comparative Arawakan Histories: Rethinking Language Family and Culture Area in Amazonia.
*Honigsbaum, Mark - The fever trail: in search of the cure for malaria.
*Honigsbaum, Mark - Valverde's gold: in search of the last great Inca treasure.
*Kane, Joe - Savages. Knopf, 1995. .
*Katz, Friedrich - Ancient American Civilizations.
*Kelly, Philip and Jack Child, eds. - Geopolitics of the Southern Cone and Antarctica.
*Koch, Peter O. - The Spanish conquest of the Inca empire.
*Kozloff, Nikolas - Revolution!: South America and the rise of the new left.
*Kricher, John C. - A Neotropical Companion: an Introduction to the Animals, Plants, and Ecosystems of the New World Tropics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1999.
*Linz, Juan J. and Alfred Stepan - Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America and Post-Communist Europe. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
*Lord, Rexford D. - Mammals of South America.
*Lynch, John - San Martin: Argentine Soldier, American Hero. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009, .
*Lynch, John - Simon Bolivar: A Life. Yale, 2006, .
*MacLachlan, Colin M. - Argentina: what went wrong.
*Madge, Tim - White Mischief: A Cultural History of Cocaine. 2004, .
*Magan, Manchan - Angels and Rabies: a journey through the Americas.
*Mainwaring, Scott, Ana Maria Bejarno, and Eduardo Pizarro Leongomez, eds. - The crisis of democratic representation in the Andes. Stanford, 2006, , .
*Mainwaring, Scott, Guillermo O'Donnell, and J. Samuel Valenzuela, eds. - Issues in Democratic Consolidation: The New South American Democracies in Comparative Perspective.
*Mancilla, Lucio V., trans. by Eva Gillies - A visit to the Ranquel Indians. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1997.
*Marcy, William L. - The politics of cocaine: how U.S. policy has created a thriving drug industry in Central and South America.
*Marley, David F. - Historic Cities of the Americas: An Illustrated Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO, 2005, , .
*Marley, David F. - Pirates of the Americas: v. 1: 1650-1685; v. 2 - 1686-1725.
*Martin, Felix E. - Militarist Peace in South America: Conditions for War and Peace. Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, .
*Masterson, Daniel M. - The history of Peru.
*Matthiessen, Peter - The Cloud Forest: A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness.
*Mayle, Simon - The Burial Brothers.
*McEwan, Gordon Francis - The Incas: new perspectives.
*Millard, Candice. The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey. Doubleday, .
*Muller, Karin - .
*Naipaul, V. S. - The Middle Passage: the Caribbean Revisited.
*Nance, John J. - On Shaky Ground.
*Newson, Linda A. and Susie Minchin - From Capture to Sale: The Portuguese Slave Trade to Spanish South America in the Early Seventeenth Century.
*Newton, A. C., ed. - Biodiversity Loss and Conservation in Fragmented Forest Landscapes: The Forests of Montane Mexico and Temperate South America.
*Nohlen, Dieter, ed. - Elections in the Americas: A Data Handbook: v.1: North America, Central America, and the Caribbean; v.2: South America. Oxford, 2005, .
*Novas, Fernando E. - The Age of Dinosaurs in South America. Indiana, 2009, .
*Ocamp, Emilio - The emperor's last campaign: a Napoleonic empire in America. Alabama, 2009, .
*Olsen, Dale A. - The Chrysanthemum and the Song: Music, Memory, and Identity in the South American Japanese diaspora.
*Opere, Fernando - Indian captivity in Spanish America: frontier narratives.
*Pan American Health Organization, ed. - Health in the Americas: 1998 edition.
*Perez-Mejia, Angela, translated by Dick Cluster - A Geography of Hard Times: Narratives about Travel to South America, 1780-1849. Albany: SUNY Press, 2004,
*Plotkin, Mark - Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice. Viking.
*Pryce, Lois - Lois on the loose: one woman, one motorcycle, 20,000 miles across the Americas.
*Punnett, Betty Jane, et al. - Successful professional women of the Americas: from polar winds to tropical breezes. Elgar, 2006, .
*Redford, Kent H. and Christian Padoch, eds. - Conservation of neotropical forests: working from traditional resource use.
*Reel, Monte - The Last of the Tribe: The Epic Quest to Save a Lone Man in the Amazon. Scriber, 2010. .
*Restall, Robin, Clemencia Rodner, and Miguel Lention with David Ascanio - Birds of northern South America: an identification guide: v.1: Species accounts; v.2: Plates and maps. Yale, 2006, .
*Rumsey, David and Edith M. Punt - Cartographica extraordinaire: the historical map transformed. ESRI, Inc. 2004, .
*Saifer, Neil - Measuring the New World: Enlightenment Science and South America.
*Sanchez, German - Cuba and Venezuela: an insight into two revolutions.
*Saunders, Nicholas - Ancient Americas: the great civilisations.
*Schappert, Phil - The last monarch butterfly: conserving the monarch butterfly in a brave new world.
*Shah, Tahir - .
*Shah, Tahir - House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost Inca City.
*Shah, Tahir - Trail of Feathers: In Search of the Birdmen of Peru.
*Shukman, Henry - Sons of the moon: a journey in the Andes.
*Silvius, Kirsten M., Richard E. Bodmer, and Jose M. V. Fragaso, eds. - Peoples in Nature: Wildlife Conservation in South and Central America.
*Simons, Eric - Darwin slept here: discovery, adventure and swimming iguanas in Charles Darwin's South America.
*Sivak, Martin - Evo Morales: The Extraordinary Rise of the First Indigenous President of Bolivia.
*Slatta, Richard W. - Cowboys of the Americas.
*Slatta, Richard W. - Simon Bolivar's quest for glory.
*Starkell, Don - Paddle to the Amazon.
*Symmes, Patrick - Chasing Che: a motorcycle journey in search of the Guevara legend.
*Tarver, Hollis Micheal Denova - The History of Venezuela.
*Theroux, Paul - The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas.
*Thompson, Angela - Textiles of Central and South America. Crowood Press, 2006, , .
*Tidwell, Mike - Amazon stranger.
*Tierney, Patrick - Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon.
*Trexler, Richard C. - Sex and Conquest: Gendered Violence, Political Order, and the European Conquest of the Americas.
*Walvin, James - Atlas of Slavery.
*White, Rodney R. - North, South, and the Environmental Crisis.
*Whitehead, Laurence - The International Dimensions of Democratization: Europe and the Americas. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
*Wood, Adrian - North-South Trade: Employment and Inequality. New York: Oxford Clarendon Press, 1994.
*Whitehead, Neil L., and Robin Wright, eds. - In Darkness and Secrecy: The Anthropology of Assault Sorcery and Witchcraft in Amazonia.

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