Special emphasis is given to social history and the analysis of the spectrum of revolutionary change since Bolivar. For the second edition the editor has expanded the section on Bolivar; revised and updated the section on economic affairs, and added new documents throughout the book. Sections of the book include: - Simon Bolivar - The Liberator - The Age of Caudillos - Juan Manuel de Rosas - Nineteenth-Century Economic Affairs - African Slavery in Brazil - Porfirio Diaz: Dictator of Mexico - Conflicting Latin and Yankee Attitudes at the Turn of the Twentieth Century - Eva Peron - Argentine Feminist - Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution -