Each year, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies works with faculty and scholars from around the world to produce books on various topics concerning Latin America. Throughout the last seven years, DRCLAS has helped produce over 15 books. Authors and editors include John H. Coatsworth, Jorge Dominguez, James E. Austin, and David Maybury-Lewis, in addition to many of the world's foremost Latin Americanists.
All publications are distributed by Harvard University Press. If you have any questions regarding the DRCLAS Publications department or the DRCLAS Book Series, please contact the DRCLAS Publications Manager.
In 2005, DRCLAS began co-publishing books with the Inter-American Development Bank. A long-standing initiative of the Latin American countries, the Inter-American Development Bank was established in 1959 as a development institution with novel mandates and tools. Its lending and technical cooperation programs for economic and social development projects went far beyond the mere financing of economic projects that was customary at the time. The IDB’s programs and tools proved so effective that soon the IDB became the model on which all other regional and sub-regional multilateral development banks were created. Today, the IDB is the oldest and largest regional development bank. It is the main source of multilateral financing for economic, social and institutional development projects as well as trade and regional integration programs in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Most recently, the publications program at DRCLAS has expanded to include books representing the arts of Latin America. Through co-publications with the Americas Society and catalogs of exhibitions at Harvard University, this program promises to bring the cultural richness of Latin American art to a wider audience.