An invaluable guide with over 11,000 listings is David F. Trask, Michael C. Meyer and Roger R. Trask (eds.), A Bibliography of United States–Latin American Relations since 1810 (Lincoln, Nebr., 1968). See also Michael C. Meyer (ed.), Supplement to a Bibliography of United States–Latin American Relations since 1810 (Lincoln, Nebr., 1979). Several countries have guides to the secondary literature for their diplomatic history. One of the best is Daniel Cosío Villegas, Cuestiones internacionales de México (Mexico, D.F., 1966). A good overall introduction to the history of the international relations of Latin America is Harold Eugene David, John J. Finan and F. Taylor Peck, Latin American Diplomatic History: An Introduction (Baton Rouge, La., 1977). A more theoretical analysis of the international dilemma of Latin America is Leopoldo Zea, Latin America and the World, translated by Frances Hendricks and Beatrice Berler (Norman, Okla., 1969). This should be read in conjunction with another classic interpretation: Arthur P. Whitaker, The Western Hemisphere Idea: Its Rise and Decline (Ithaca, N.Y., 1954). For questions of international organization and law, see John C. Dreir et al., International Organization in the Western Hemisphere (Syracuse, N.Y., 1968), and C. Neale Ronning, Law and Politics in Inter-American Diplomacy (New York, 1963).

For a more detailed presentation of United States relations with Latin America, see Graham Stuart and James Tigner, Latin America and the United States, 6th ed. (Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1975). See also Gordon Connell-Smith, The United States and Latin America: An Historical Analysis of Inter-American Relations (London, 1974) and, a more general treatment from a different perspective, Lloyd C. Gardner, Walter LaFeber and T. McCormick, The Creation of the Modern American Empire: U.S. Diplomatic History (London, 1973), as well as the various works of William Appleman Williams.