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Misc. and general histories

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  • Davis, Jack E. The Gulf: the making of an American Sea. Liveright Publishing, 2017.
  • McPherson, Alan. The invaded: How Latin Americans and their allies fought and ended US occupations. OUP USA, 2014.
  • Lane, Kris. Pillaging the Empire: Piracy in the Americas, 1500–1750. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1998.
  • Thomas, David Hurst. The Spanish Borderlands in Pan-American Perspective. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991.
  • Weber, David J. The Spanish Frontier in North America. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1992.
  • Schwaller, John F. The History of the Catholic Church in Latin America: From Conquest to Revolution and Beyond. New York: New York University Press, 2011.
  • Barr, Juliana, and Edward Countryman, eds. Contested Spaces of Early America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014.
  • Guy, Donna J., and Thomas E. Sheridan, eds. Contested Ground: Comparative Frontiers on the Northern and Southern Edges of the Spanish Empire. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1998.
  • Chasteen, John Charles. Americanos: Latin America’s Struggle for Independence. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
  • Kinsbruner, Jay. Independence in Spanish America: Civil Wars, Revolutions and Underdevelopment. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1994.
  • Langley, Lester D. The Americas in the Age of Revolution, 1750–1850. New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press, 1996.
  • Lynch, John. The Spanish American Revolutions, 1808–1826. 2d rev. ed. New York: W. W. Norton, 1986.
  • Voss, Stuart F. Latin America in the Middle Period: 1750–1929. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 2002.
  • Almandoz, Arturo. Modernization, Urbanization and Development in Latin America, 1900s–2000s. London: Routledge, 2014.
  • Williamson, Edwin. The Penguin History of Latin America. London: Penguin, 2009.
  • Langley, Lester. America and the Americas 2d ed. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2010.
  • Anderson, Gary Clayton. The Indian Southwest, 1580–1830: Ethnogenesis and Reinvention. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999.
  • Crosby, Alfred W. Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900–1900. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
  • Greene, Jack P., and Philip D. Morgan, eds. Atlantic History: A Critical Appraisal. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
  • Limerick, Patricia Nelson. The Legacy of Conquest: Unclear Pasts of the American West. New York: Norton, 1987.
  • Egerton, Douglas R., Alison Games, Jane G. Landers, Kris Lane, and Donald R. Wright. The Atlantic World: A History, 1400–1888. Wheeling, IL: Harlan Davidson, 2007.
  • Edmunds, R. David, Frederick E. Hoxie, and Neal Salisbury. The People: A History of Native America. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007.
  • Benjamin, Thomas. The Atlantic World: Europeans, Africans, Indians, and Their Shared History, 1400–1900. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
  • Brescia, Michael M., and John C. Super. North America: An Introduction. University of Toronto Press, 2009. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctt2ttkvb.
  • Deverell, William, and Anne Hyde. Shaped by the West, Volume 1: A History of North America to 1877. 1st ed. University of California Press, 2018. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctv2n7dsh.
  • Borderland narratives : negotiation and accommodation in North America's contested spaces, 1500-1850 Frank, Andrew, 1970- editor.; Crothers, A. Glenn, editor.
  • Russell, James W. Class and Race Formation in North America. University of Toronto Press, 2009. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctt2ttwxb.
  • Fischer, David Hackett. Champlain's Dream: The European Founding of North America. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2008.
  • Flannery, Tim. 2002. The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its People. New York, NY: Grove Atlantic.
  • Bailyn, Bernard. Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution. New York: Knopf, 1986.
  • Sauer, Carl O. Seventeenth Century North America. Berkeley: Turtle Island, 1980.
  • Sauer, Carl O. Sixteenth Century North America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971.
  • Hyde, Anne F. Empires, Nations, and Families: A New History of the North American West, 1800–1860. New York: Ecco, 2012.
  • Baseler, Marilyn C. 'Asylum for Mankind': America, 1607–1800. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998.

Slavery

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  • Berlin, Ira, and Philip D. Morgan, eds. The Slaves’ Economy: Independent Production by Slaves in the Americas. London: Frank Cass, 1991.
  • Beckles, Hilary McD., and Verene A. Shepherd, eds. Caribbean Slavery in the Atlantic World. Oxford: James Currey, 2000.
  • Blackburn, Robin. The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492–1800. London: Verso, 1997.
  • Eltis, David. The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
  • Blackburn, Robin. The American Crucible: Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights. London and New York: Verso, 2011.
  • Blackburn, Robin. The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery, 1776–1848. London and New York: Verso, 1988.
  • Eltis, David. The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
  • Rawley, James A., and Stephen D. Behrendt. The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A History. Rev. ed. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005.
  • Thomas, Hugh. The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440–1870. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997.

International relations and ties

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  • McDougal, John. 2006. Drifting Together: The Political Economy of Canada- U.S. Integration. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press.
  • Lipset, Seymour Martin. 1990. Continental Divide: The Values and Institutions of the United States and Canada. New York, NY: Routledge
  • Legler, Thomas. 1995. A Comparison of Canadian and Mexican Postwar Development (1845-1994): More than at First Meets the Eye. Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
  • Langley, Lester D. 1991. Mexico and the United States: The Fragile Relationship. Boston, MA: Twayne Publishers.
  • LaFeber, Walter. 1989. The American Age: United States Foreign Policy at Home and Abroad Since 1750. New York, NY: W.W. Norton
  • LaFeber, Walter. 1996. The New Empire: An Interpretation of American Expansionism, 1860-1898. 2nd ed. New York, NY: W.W. Norton.
  • Herzog, Lawrence A. (ed.). 1992. Changing Boundaries in the Americas: New Perspectives on the U.S.-Mexican, Central American, and South American Borders. San Diego, CA: Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies and U of California P.
  • Handlin, Oscar. 1990. The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migrations that Made the American People. Boston, MA: Little, Brown
  • Goldberg, Michael A., and John Mercer. 1986. The Myth of the North AmericanCity: Continentalism Challenged. Vancouver, BC: U of British Columbia P.
  • Englehart, Ronald F., Neil Nevitte, and Miguel Basañez. 1996. North American Trajectory: Cultural, Economic, and Political Ties among the United States, Canada, and Mexico. New York, NY: Aldine de Gruyter
  • DePalma, Anthony. 2001. Here: A Biography of the New American Continent. New York, NY: Public Affairs.
  • Bergquist, Charles. 1996. Labor and the Course of American Democracy: U.S. History in Latin American Perspective. London, UK and New York, NY: Verso
  • Abu-Laban, Yasmeen, Radha Jhappan, and François Rocher (eds.). 2007. Politics in North America: Redefining Continental Relations. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press
  • Fields of battle : the wars for North America Keegan, John, 1934-2012. 1996

Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica

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  • Scarborough, Vernon Lee, and John E. Clark, eds. The political economy of ancient Mesoamerica: transformations during the Formative and Classic periods. UNM Press, 2007.
  • Coe, Michael D., Javier Urcid, and Rex Koontz. Mexico: from the Olmecs to the Aztecs. Thames & Hudson, 2019.
  • Fowler, William R. The Cultural Evolution of Ancient Nahua Civilizations: The Pipil-Nicarao of Central America. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1989.
  • Adams, Richard E. W., and Murdo J. MacLeod, eds. The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas, Vol. 2, Parts 1 and 2: Mesoamerica. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
  • Kepecs, Susan, and Rani T. Alexander, eds. The Postclassic to Spanish-Era Transition in Mesoamerica: Archaeological Perspectives. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005.
  • Knight, Alan. Mexico. Vol. 1, From the Beginning to the Spanish Conquest. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
  • Schele, Linda, and David Freidel. A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya. New York: Morrow, 1990.

Pre-Columbian North America

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  • Fagan, Brian. 2005. Ancient North America. London, UK: Thames and Hudson
  • Trigger, Bruce G., and Wilcomb E. Washburn, eds. The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas. of The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas, Part 1 & 2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
  • Fiedel, Stuart J. Prehistory of the Americas. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
  • Kehoe, Alice. America before the European Invasions. New York: Longman, 2002.
  • Shaffer, Lynda Norene. Native Americans Before 1492: The Moundbuilding Centers of the Eastern Woodlands. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1992.

Colonial period

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  • Denevan, William M., ed. The Native Population of the Americas in 1492. 2d ed. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1992.
  • Elliott, John Huxtable. Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492-1830. Yale University Press, 2006.
  • White, Sam. A cold welcome: the Little Ice Age and Europe’s encounter with North America. Harvard University Press, 2017.
  • WEAVER, JOHN C. Great Land Rush and the Making of the Modern World, 1650-1900. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2003. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt804f5.
  • Boxer, C. R. The Dutch Seaborne Empire, 1600–1800. New York: Knopf, 1965.
  • Blackburn, Robin. The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery, 1776–1848. London: Verso, 1988.
  • Kelton, Paul K. Epidemics and Enslavement: Biological Catastrophe in the Native Southeast, 1492–1715. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007.
  • Meinig, D. W. The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History. Vol. 1, Atlantic America, 1492–1800. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1986.
  • Shoemaker, Nancy. A Strange Likeness: Becoming Red and White in Eighteenth-Century North America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
  • Hatfield, April Lee. Atlantic Virginia: Intercolonial Relations in the Seventeenth Century. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
  • McAlister, Lyle N. Spain and Portugal in the New World, 1492–1700. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984.
  • WITGEN, MICHAEL. An Infinity of Nations: How the Native New World Shaped Early North America. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt3fj1jp.
  • Bitter feast : Amerindians and Europeans in Northeastern North America, 1600-64 Delâge, Denys. 1993
  • Anderson, Fred, and Andrew Cayton. (2005). The Dominion of War: Empire and Liberty in North America, 1500–2000. New York: Penguin.

British

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  • Hornsby, Stephen J. British Atlantic, American Frontier: Spaces of Power in Early Modern British America. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2005.
  • Koot, Christian J. Empire at the Periphery: British Colonists, Anglo-Dutch Trade, and the Development of the British Atlantic, 1621–1713. New York: New York University Press, 2011.
  • Foster, Stephen, ed. British North America in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Oxford University Press, USA, 2013.
  • Taylor, Alan. American colonies: the settling of North America (the Penguin history of the United States, Volume 1). Penguin, 2002.
  • MacFarlane, Anthony. The British in the Americas, 1480–1815. London: Longman, 1994.
  • Mulcahy, Matthew. Hubs of Empire: The Southeastern Lowcountry and British Caribbean. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.
  • Pestana, Carla Gardina. Protestant Empire: Religion and the Making of the British Atlantic World. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009a.
  • Greene, Jack P. Pursuits of Happiness: The Social Development of Early Modern British Colonies and the Formation of American Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988.
  • Ross, Donald. “What Are We Doing Here?: Scenarios for Early English Colonies in North America.” In American Travel and Empire, edited by Susan Castillo and David Seed, 1st ed., 9–40. Liverpool University Press, 2009. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt5vjj4v.5.
  • Anderson, Fred. 2001. Crucible of War: The Seven Years’ War and the Fate of Empire in British North America. New York, NY: Knopf.
  • Planters, merchants, and slaves : plantation societies in British America, 1650-1820 Burnard, Trevor, 1960-, 2019
  • McCusker, John J., and Russell R. Menard. The Economy of British America, 1607-1789. University of North Carolina Press, 1991. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469600000_mccusker.

Dutch

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  • Jacobs, Jaap. The Colony of New Netherland: A Dutch Settlement in Seventeenth-Century America. Atlantic World 3. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009.

French

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  • Boucher, Philip P. Les Nouvelles Frances: France in America, 1500–1815, an Imperial Perspective. Providence, RI: John Carter Brown Library, 1989.
  • Moogk, Peter N. La Nouvelle France: The Making of French Canada - A Cultural History. Michigan State University Press, 2000. https://doi.org/10.14321/j.ctv2jsh01r.
  • Eccles, W. J. The French in North America, 1500–1765. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1998.
  • Pritchard, James. In Search of Empire: The French in the Americas, 1670–1730. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
  • RUSHFORTH, BRETT. Bonds of Alliance: Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France. University of North Carolina Press, 2012. https://doi.org/10.5149/9780807838174_rushforth.
  • Greer, Allan. The People of New France. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997.
  • Aldrich, Robert. Greater France: A History of French Overseas Expansion. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996.

Spanish

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  • Domínguez, Jorge I. Insurrection or Loyalty: The Breakdown of the Spanish-American Empire. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1980.
  • Clendinnen, Inga. Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517–1570. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
  • González, Ondina E., and Justo L. González. Christianity in Latin America: A History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
    • Thomas, Hugh. Conquest: Cortes, Montezuma, and the Fall of Old Mexico. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994.

Swedish

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  • Thompson, Mark L. The Contest for the Delaware Valley: Allegiance, Identity, and Empire in the Seventeenth Century. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2013.

Russian

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  • Black, Lydia T. Russians in Alaska, 1732–1867. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2004.
  • Vinkovetsky, Ilya. Russian America: An Overseas Colony of a Continental Empire. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
  • Barratt, Glynn. Russia in Pacific Waters, 1715–1825. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1981.

Revolutionary period

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  • DuVal, Kathleen. Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution. Random House, 2016. (May useful for one or two footnotes about the effects of the American Revolutionary War on other colonies.)
  • Taylor, Alan. American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804. WW Norton & Company, 2016.

US History

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  • Jones, Jacqueline, Peter H. Wood, Thomas Borstelmann, Elaine Tyler May, and Vicki L. Ruiz. Created Equal: A Social and Political History of the United States. 2d ed. New York: Pearson, 2008.
  • Taylor, Alan. American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850. WW Norton & Company, 2021. (Good source for early US history in a continental context)
  • Howe, Daniel Walker. What hath God wrought: The transformation of America, 1815-1848. Oxford University Press, 2007. (Oxford History of the United States series)
  • Schermerhorn, Calvin. Unrequited toil: a history of United States slavery. Cambridge University Press, 2018. (Good source for the history of US slavery broadly)
  • Beckert, Sven. Empire of cotton: A global history. Vintage, 2015. (More context for slavery)
  • White, Richard. The republic for which it stands: The United States during reconstruction and the gilded age, 1865-1896. Oxford University Press, 2017.
  • Hyde, Anne Farrar. Empires, Nations, and Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860. U of Nebraska Press, 2011.
  • Kennedy, David M. Freedom from fear: The American people in depression and war, 1929-1945. Oxford University Press, 1999.
  • Patterson, James T. Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974. Oxford University Press, 1996. (Mid-20th century US history, from the Oxford History of the United States series)
  • Ostler, Jeffrey. Surviving genocide: Native nations and the United States from the American revolution to bleeding Kansas. Yale University Press, 2019.
  • Dochuk, Darren. From Bible Belt to Sunbelt: Plain-folk religion, grassroots politics, and the rise of evangelical conservatism. WW Norton & company, 2010. (Might be good for a cite or two about modern US political and social developments)
  • Richter, Daniel K. Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001.
  • Taylor, Alan. American Colonies. New York: Viking, 2001.
  • Harvey, Paul, Edward J. Blum, and Randall Stephens, eds. The Columbia Guide to Religion in American History. Columbia University Press, 2012. https://doi.org/10.7312/harv14020.

Canadian history

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  • Dickason, Olive. Canada's First Nations: A History of Founding Peoples from Earliest Times. Oxford University Press, 1992.
  • Bothwell, Robert. Penguin History of Canada. Penguin Canada, 2007.
  • Bumsted, J.M. (2014). The Peoples of Canada: A Pre-Confederation History (fourth ed.). Toronto: Oxford University Press
  • Bumsted, J.M. (2013). The Peoples of Canada: A Post-Confederation History (fourth ed.). Toronto: Oxford University Press.

Caribbean history

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  • Keegan, William F., and Corinne L. Hofman. The Caribbean before Columbus. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
  • Rouse, Irving. The Tainos: Rise and Decline of the People Who Greeted Columbus. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1992.
  • Andrews, Kenneth R. The Spanish Caribbean: Trade and Plunder, 1530–1630. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1978.
  • Ferrer, Ada. Cuba: An American History. Simon and Schuster, 2021.
  • McNeill, John Robert. Mosquito empires: ecology and war in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914. Cambridge University Press, 2010.
  • Renda, Mary A. Taking Haiti: Military occupation and the culture of US imperialism, 1915-1940. Univ of North Carolina Press, 2001.
  • Chomsky, Aviva. A History of the Cuban Revolution. 2d ed. Hoboken: John Wiley, 2015.
  • Kapcia, Antoni. Cuba in Revolution: A History since the Fifties. London: Reaktion, 2008.
  • Dubois, Laurent. Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution. Cambridge, MA: Belknap, 2004.
  • Knight, Franklin W. The Caribbean: The Genesis of a Fragmented Nationalism. 3d ed. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
  • Moya Pons, Frank. History of the Caribbean: Plantations, Trade, and War in the Atlantic World. Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener, 2007.
  • Gaspar, David Barry, and David Patrick Geggus, eds. A Turbulent Time: The French Revolution and the Greater Caribbean. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1997.
  • Hart, Richard. Occupation & Control: The British in Jamaica 1660–1962. Kingston, Jamaica: Arawak, 2013.

Mexican history

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  • Florescano, Enrique. Memory, Myth, and Time in Mexico: From the Aztecs to Independence. Translated by Albert G. Bork and Kathryn R. Bork. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994.
  • Hassig, Ross. Mexico and the Spanish Conquest. 2d rev. ed. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006.
  • Weber, David J. The mexican frontier, 1821-1846: the american southwest under Mexico. UNM Press, 1982.
  • Semo, Enrique, and Lidia Lozano. The History of Capitalism in Mexico: Its Origins, 1521–1763. University of Texas Press, 1993. https://doi.org/10.7560/730694.
  • Bethell, Leslie, ed. Mexico Since Independence. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
  • Camín, Héctor Aguilar, and Lorenzo Meyer. In the Shadow of the Mexican Revolution: Contemporary Mexican History, 1910–1989. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1993.
  • Gonzales, Michael J. The Mexican Revolution, 1910–1940. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002.
  • Muñoz Ramírez, Gloria. The Fire and the Word: A History of the Zapatista Movement. Translated by Laura Carlsen with Alejandro Reyes Arias. San Francisco: City Lights, 2008. (Useful for a single cite about the Zapatista rebellion, lol)
  • Hamnett, Brian R. A Concise History of Mexico. 2d ed. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
  • Knight, Alan. Mexico: The Colonial Era. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
  • Meyer, Michael C., William L. Sherman, and Susan M. Deeds. The Course of Mexican History. 7th ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Central American history

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  • Jones, Oakah L. Guatemala in the Spanish Colonial Period. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1994.
  • MacLeod, Murdo. Spanish Central America: A Socioeconomic History, 1520–1720. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008.
  • Wortman, Miles. Government and Society in Central America, 1680–1840. New York: Columbia University Press, 1982.
  • White, Alastair. El Salvador. London: Benn, 1973.
  • Rodríguez, Mario. The Cádiz Experiment in Central America, 1808 to 1826. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978.
  • Wortman, Miles. Government and Society in Central America, 1680–1840. New York: Columbia University Press, 1982.
  • Chamberlain, Robert. The Conquest and Colonization of Yucatan, 1517–1550. Washington, DC: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1948.
  • Williams, Philip J., and Knut Walter. Militarization and Demilitarization in El Salvador’s Transition to Democracy. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997.
  • Bowman, Kirk S. Militarisation, Democracy and Development: The Perils of Praetorianism in Latin America. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002.

The Arctic

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  • Fossett, Renée. In Order to Live Untroubled: Inuit of the Central Arctic, 1550-1940. Winnipeg, MB: University of Manitoba Press, 2001. 336 pages.
  • Campbell, Gordon. Norse America: The Story of a Founding Myth. Oxford University Press, 2021.
  • Abel, Kerry, and Ken S. Coates (eds.). 2001. Northern Visions: New Perspectives on the North in Canadian History. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press