Histories and Historians of Hispanic America Open Access

This is a reprint of the second edition of Wilgus’ book, originally published in 1942 and never reviewed in the HAHR. Some of its contents seem to overlap with Wilgus’ other bibliographies, notably Colonial Hispanic America and The Development of Hispanic America. For reviews of these two works see HAHR, XVII (1937), 83-85, and XXII (1942), 374-375, respectively. The present reprint is a partial list of early books about Latin American history, but it will be useful primarily to students of Latin American historiography and to researchers on nineteenthcentury history. So much has been written about Latin America during the last twenty-five years, and the quality of research in the field has improved so markedly during that time that most graduate students in and teachers of survey courses will prefer a more up-to-date bibliography.