Summary
Praise for the previous edition:
"...valuable..."—American Reference Books Annual
Central America is a tiny region, broken into seven even smaller nations. More than 5 million North Americans visit these countries every year, exploring Mayan ruins in Guatemala and Belize, discovering the rain forests of Nicaragua and Costa Rica, snorkeling in Honduras, and cruising through the Panama Canal.
A Brief History of Central America, Third Edition explores the history of the Central American isthmus from the pre-Columbian cultures to the contemporary nations that make up the region today: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama.
Coverage includes:
- The Land and Its First Peoples
- The Spanish Conquest
- Life in the Colony
- The Federation of Central America
- The Making of the Coffee Republics
- Challenge to the Old Order
- Civil Wars
- The Challenge of Peace and Democracy.
About the Author(s)
Lynn V. Foster is a writer, former research scholar, and adjunct faculty member in the Hispanic Studies Department of the University of Massachusetts at Boston. She is the author of several books, including Facts On File’s A Brief History of Mexico and Handbook to Life in the Ancient Maya World.