David Bushnell
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Emeritus Professor of History, University of Florida, Gainesville. Author of The Emergence of Latin America in the Nineteenth Century; The Making of Modern Colombia: A Nation in Spite of Itself; Simón Bolívar: Liberation and Disappointment; and others.
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Central America, geographic region of the Americas, comprising Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Belize. Some geologists and physical geographers extend the northern boundary to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Mexico. This article covers the history of the area from…
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