- Not of Pure Blood: The Free People of Color and Racial Prejudice in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico
- Independence in Spanish America: Civil Wars, Revolutions, and Underdevelopment (Dialogos (Albuquerque, N.M.).)
- The Colonial Spanish-American City: Urban Life in the Age of Atlantic Capitalism
- Diego Portales: Interpretative Essays on the Man and Times
- Chile: a historical interpretation (Crosscurrents in Latin America)