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Senior Consulting Editor
James D. Henderson
is professor of
international studies at Coastal Carolina University. He is the
author of
Conservative Thought in Twentieth Century Latin America:
The Ideals of Laureano Gómez
(1988; Spanish edition
Las ideas de
Laureano Gómez
published in 1985);
When Colombia Bled: A History
of the Violence in Tolima
(1985; Spanish edition
Cuando Colombia se
desangró, una historia de la Violencia en metrópoli y provincia
, 1984);
and co-author of
A Reference Guide to Latin American History
(2000) and
Ten Notable Women of Latin America
(1978).
Mr. Henderson earned a bachelors degree in history from Centenary College of
Louisiana, and a masters degree in history from the University of Arizona. He then
spent three years in the Peace Corps, serving in Colombia, before earning his doctorate
in Latin American history in 1972 at Texas Christian University.
Charles J. Shields
, the author of all eight books in the
D
ISCOVERING
C
ENTRAL
A
MERICA
series, lives in Homewood, a
suburb of Chicago, with his wife Guadalupe, an elementary-
school principal. He has a degree in history from the University
of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, and was chairman of the
English department and the guidance department at
Homewood-Flossmoor High School in Flossmoor, Illinois.
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