Peter H. Smith (Latin America scholar)
- Peter H. Smith (Latin America scholar)
Peter H. Smith is a scholar on United States and Latin American relations, and the Simon Bolivar Professor of Latin American Studies at University of California in San Diego.
He has been president of the Latin American Studies Association (1989-2001). He has also been director of the Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies (1989-2001) and director of Latin American Studies (1994-2001) at UCSD.
Publications
Some of his publications include:
* Politics and Beef in Argentina: Patterns of Conflict and Change (1969)
* Argentina and the Failure of Democracy: Conflict among Political Elites, 1904-1955 (1974)
* Labyrinths of Power: Political Recruitment in Twentieth-Century Mexico (1979)
* Talons of the Eagle: Dynamics of U.S.-Latin American Relations (1996; 2nd edition, 2000)
* Democracy in Latin America: Political Change in Comparative Perspective (2005)
* Modern Latin America, co-authored (1984), now in its sixth edition (2005)
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