Argentina
For overviews, see D. Rock, Argentina, 1516–1982:
From Spanish Colonization to the Falklands War*
(California, 1985) and, edited by the same author,
Argentina in the Twentieth Century(Pittsburgh, 1975).
See also G. I. Blanksten, Perón’s Argentina(Chicago,
1974).
Chile
E. Kaufman, Crisis in Allende’s Chile: New Perspectives
(Praeger, 1988). J. Valenzuela and A. Valenzuela,
Military Rule in Chile: Dictatorship and Oppositions
(Johns Hopkins, 1986).
Brazil
P. Flynn, Brazil: A Political Analysis(Ernest Benn,
1978) T. E. Skidmore, Politics in Brazil, 1930–1964: An
Experiment in Democracy(Oxford, NY, 1967); and by
the same author, Politics of Military Rule in Brazil,
1964–1985(Oxford, NY, 1988).
Two studies of general interest are S. Lindquist, Land
and Power in South America* (Penguin, 1979) and T.
Beeson and J. Pearce, A Vision of Hope: The Churches
and Change in Latin America* (Collins, 1984).
23 THE UNITED NATIONS AND THE
EUROPEAN COMMUNITY
See. D. Armstrong, The Rise of International Organisa-
tions(Macmillan, 1982) for a good general overview of
international organisations. See also E. Luard, The
United Nations(Macmillan, 1979); H. G. Nicholas The
United Nations as a Political Institution(Oxford,
1975); S. Bailey, The United Nations(Macmillan,
1989); S. Meisler, United Nations: The First Fifty Years*
(Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997); N. Bawles, The
Diplomacy of Hope: The United Nations since the Cold
War(I. B. Tauris, 2004).
For a general overview of the coming together of
Western Europe, see D. W. Urwin, The Community
of Europe: A History of European Integration since
1945 (Longman, 1991). See also J. Pinder, European
Community: The Building of a Union(Oxford, 1991);
D. Swann, The Economics of the Common Market* (6th
edn, Penguin, 1988). For an upbeat assessment of the
EC’s achievements and future needs by a former vice-
president of the European Commission from 1981 to
1985, see C. Tugendhat, Making Sense of Europe*
(Penguin, 1986).
24 SOME GENERAL REFERENCE WORKS
The Statesman’s Year Bookprovides annual updates of
pertinent information country by country. It is pub-
lished by Macmillan and in 1992–3 was in its 29th
edition. Another immensely useful reference work pro-
viding good factual accounts of a year’s events country
by country is The Annual Register of World Events,
which was first edited by Edmund Burke in 1758 and
since then there have been many distinguished editors;
vol. 245, 2003 was edited by D. S. Lewis; specialists
cover the events of the previous year in every country of
the world. For contemporary events there are the press
and documentary programmes on television, but for
good consistent reporting The Economistis invaluable, as
are the US weeklies Timeand Newsweek. The German
version is Der Spiegel.
A number of compendiums periodically updated pro-
vide detailed statistical information and more. The
Europa Publicationsare excellent; a series of volumes
devoted to institutions such as A Dictionary of the
European Union(2004) and on Arab–Israeli relations.
They are revised at regular intervals. The major ency-
clopaedias also add annual volumes to their most recent
editions. Also available is B. R. Mitchell and B. Redman,
International Historical Statistics. Europe 1750–2000
(5th edn, Macmillan, 2003).
Convenient brief accounts of political and economic
conditions with useful statistical data are published in a
handy paperback series, Spotlight on Politics, covering
a number of countries including Britain, the United
States, China, France and West Germany: I. Derbyshire,
Politics in West Germany from Schmidt to Kohl
(Chambers, 1987); I. Derbyshire, Politics in France
from Giscard to Mitterrand(Chambers, 1987); J. D.
Derbyshire and I. Derbyshire, Politics in Britain from
Callaghan to Thatcher(Chambers, 1990).
An invaluable guide to bibliographies is R. H. Fritze,
B. E. Coutts and L. A. Vyhnanek, Reference Sources in
History: An Introductory Guide(ABC-Clio, 1990). For
current affairs there are an increasing number of internet
sites too numerous to list.
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