John Charles Chasteen
John Charles Chasteen is a cultural historian of Latin America, active at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Selected works
- Americanos: The Struggle for Latin American Independence. New York and London: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
- National Rhythms, African Roots: The Deep History of Latin American Popular Dance. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004.
- Problems in Modern Latin American History: Sources and Interpretations Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 2004.
- 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.
- The Mystery of Samba: Popular Music and National Identity in Brazil, by Hermano Vianna. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.
- 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.
- The Contemporary History of Latin America, by Tulio Halperín Donghi. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1993.
- Problems in Modern Latin American History. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1993.
- Latin American Independence: A Documents Reader, editor and translator.
