Historia contemporánea de América Latina

500 Years of the Essay in Hispanic America: an Annotated Anthology, this book is thought to be the first critical anthology of essays written in Hispanic America, and covers a period from the voyages of Columbus to the 1980s. The last essay is the speech which Gabriel Garcia Marquez read when he accepted his Nobel Prize in 1982.

"Random selection of 16th- and 17th-century descriptions of physical geography in the New World, including seas and rivers, climate and winds, mountains and volcanos, plants, animals, and fabled creatures"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

Content of t. 1-32 covers history of Spain and Spanish in Latin America. Beginning with t. 33-1 (2003) content covers history of any Spanish colony.