Starting with the Great Depression, this volume looks at the societal, political, and economic dynamics in Latin American countries and provides an outlook for the twenty-first century. It presents socioeconomic and political processes of change, but also specific features of individual countries and developments in cultural history, as well as historiographical and sociopolitical debates.

Christine Hatzky, Leibniz University, Hanover; Barbara Potthast, University of Cologne, Germany.