Selected works
* ''Americanos: The Struggle for Latin American Independence''. New York and London: Oxford University Press, 2008. * ''National Rhythms, African Roots: The Deep History of Latin American Popular Dance''. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004. * (Co-Editor with James Wood) ''Problems in Modern Latin American History: Sources and Interpretations'' Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 2004. * (Co-Editor with Sara Castro Klarén) ''Beyond Imagined Communities: Reading and Writing the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Latin America''. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2003. * '' Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America''. New York: W.W. Norton, 2001. (2nd edition, 2006; History Book Club Alternate Selection) * (Editor and translator) ''The Mystery of Samba: Popular Music and National Identity in Brazil'', by Hermano Vianna. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. * (Editor and translator) ''The Lettered City'', by Angel Rama. Duke University Press, 1996. * ''Heroes on Horseback: A Life and Times of the Last Gaucho Caudillos''. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995. * (Editor and translator) ''The Contemporary History of Latin America'', by Tulio Halperín Donghi. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1993. * (Editor, contributor, and translator) ''Problems in Modern Latin American History''. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1993. * (under contract with Hackett Publishers) ''Latin American Independence: A Documents Reader'', editor and translator.References