Forgotten Continent: A History of the New Latin America

A newly updated edition of the best-selling primer on the social, political, and economic challenges facing Central and South America

Ten years after its first publication, Michael Reid’s best-selling survey of the state of contemporary Latin America has been wholly updated to reflect the new realities of the “Forgotten Continent.” The former Americas editor for the Economist, Reid suggests that much of Central and South America, though less poor, less unequal, and better educated than before, faces harder economic times now that the commodities boom of the 2000s is over. His revised, in-depth account of the region reveals dynamic societies more concerned about corruption and climate change, the uncertainties of a Donald Trump-led United States, and a political cycle that, in many cases, is turning from left-wing populism to center-right governments. This essential new edition provides important insights into the sweeping changes that have occurred in Latin America in recent years and indicates priorities for the future.

• Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
• Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism (American Empire Project)
• The History of Latin America: Collision of Cultures (Palgrave Essential Histories Series)
• Left Behind: Latin America and the False Promise of Populism
• Brazil: The Troubled Rise of a Global Power
• The Next Africa: An Emerging Continent Becomes a Global Powerhouse
• Industrial Development in Africa
• The Penguin History of Latin America
• Modern Latin America
• The Sound of Things Falling