The Cambridge History of Latin America is a large-scale, collaborative, multi-volume history of Latin America during the five centuries from the first contacts between Europeans and the native peoples of the Americas in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries to the present.

Latin America: Politics and Society Since 1930 brings together six chapters from The Cambridge History of Latin America Volume VI, Part 2. The authors survey the advance of (as well as the setbacks suffered by) democracy in Latin America; the successes and failures of the Latin American Left, both democratic and non-democratic; the military in Latin American politics – military interventions and coups, military regimes, and problems of transition to civilian rule; the urban working class and urban labour movements, with emphasis on their role in politics; and rural mobilizations and rural violence, especially in Mexico, Central America, and the Andes. Each chapter is accompanied by a bibliographical essay.

The aim is to provide in a single ‘student edition’ a comprehensive survey of Latin American politics and Latin American political and social movements since 1930.