THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF LATIN AMERICA VOLUME I (original) (raw)

history in Latin America

2016

Vol. 2, n°2 (1998) Histoire de la criminalité et de la justice pénale en Amérique latine / Criminal justice

An indispensable book for understanding why Latin America has been, until now, an

2013

Quotations were translated from the author’s Spanish and were not taken from the original English, in the case that the text had been written in English, or from published English translations of texts written in another language. The titles that appear in English of publications that were originally written in another language were either already in existence or were a direct translation from a simple title. For other, more difficult titles, they either appear only in the original language or, in the case of Spanish titles, they appear in the original Spanish and my own translation. The word “liberal ” to refer to a political inclination is used to mean favoring little government intervention in the economy. 2 For Beatriz Bernal, to whom this book and I owe so much 3 “We live in difficult times during which we can neither speak nor refrain from speaking without running some danger. ”-- Juan Luis Vives (Letter to Erasmus, 1540) “We are all but heart and soul. Remote from us is the d...

Modern Latin America Since 1800

Springer eBooks, 2022

Modern Latin America: Everyday Life and Politics 1800 to the Present. Covering the sweep of Latin American history from the perspective of the everyday experiences of the people who made it, Modern Latin America, tells the story of the forces that shaped the region and how people from various walks of life negotiated the changing dynamics of race, class, gender, political conflict and power to create the societies of today. Integrating current scholarship, the book covers the major themes and events of Latin American history while breaking away from a dry history of states and institutions to provide a window on the dynamics of how people shaped, were impacted by, and lived their history.

History in Latin America (1968-2008)

This paper sums up a broader analysis I have made on the dominant trends of historical writing in Latin America since the epistemological breaking of mid 1960’s, when post-structuralism blossomed in the Humanities and Social Sciences of the hegemonic centers of Western culture. Its gradual reception with relative chronological delay in Latin American intellectual environments partially explains why economic and social history still remained for almost two decades as the most important historiographical fields amongst the historians of the region until the mid 1980’s. By this time, the vertiginous flow of new thematic and theoretical trends influenced by the so-called “cultural turn” had begun to change Latin American historiographical scenarios as well.

Syllabus- Goods, Ideas, and People: Modern Latin America from a Global Perspective (1810-1910)

2024

This module examines the political, social, and cultural history of Modern Latin America (1810-1910) from a connected and global perspective. It invites us to explore the history of the region, through the hemispheric and transatlantic circulation of goods, ideas, and people. Studying the history of Latin America from this perspective will allow us to counterbalance scholarly interpretations that place excessive emphasis on individual processes of nation-building and reconsider Latin America’s role within larger global frameworks. The exploration of a range of primary sources alongside a survey of recent historiography will be a particular feature of this course. Thus, drawing on a great variety of primary sources —including commercial correspondence, consular reports, travel writing, literature, visual sources, and objects— as well as a comprehensive selection of secondary material, the module invites us to critically question not just the bounty by the costs of interdependence for the region’s socially, ethnically, and racially divided societies. Among some of the topics to be considered are: the region’s revolutionary experience from an Atlantic perspective, the scope and impact of Latin America’s liberalism and republicanism in a global context, the development of transatlantic intellectual networks in the region and beyond, the place of Latin America within global economic systems, the impact of transatlantic migrations during the second half of the nineteenth century, the reconfiguration of ideas about race in the Americas and Europe, and the emergence of imperial and anti-imperial discourses in the hemisphere.

Latin American Literature in Transition, pre 1492-1800 (Book, ToC & paratexts)

Latin American Literature in Transition, 2022

The year 1492 invokes many instances of transition in a variety of ways that intersected, overlapped and shaped the emergence of Latin America. For the diverse Native inhabitants of the Americas as well as the people of Europe, Africa, and Asia who crossed the Atlantic and Pacific as part of the early-modern global movements, their lived experiences were defined by transitions. The Iberian territories from approximately 1492–1800 extended from what is now the US Southwest to Tierra del Fuego, and from the Iberian coasts to the Philippines and China. Built around six thematic areas that underline key processes that shaped the colonial period and its legacies – space, body, belief systems, literacies, languages, and identities – this innovative volume (introduction plus 24 essays) goes beyond the traditional European understanding of the lettered canon. It examines a range of texts including books published in Europe and the New World and manuscripts stored in repositories around the globe that represent poetry, prose, judicial proceedings, sermons, letters, grammars, and dictionaries.

HIST3213: Modern Latin America Syllabus

In her Nobel Lecture, Nobel Laureate Rigoberta Menchu, stated, "It is not possible to conceive a democratic Guatemala, free and independent, without the indigenous identity shaping its character into all aspects of national existence." While Menchu was specifically referring to the struggles of her home country of Guatemala, her remarks demonstrate a fundamental truth of Latin America more broadly-the history of Latin America and its struggles to create free, democratic societies are inevitably shaped by the culture of those who have called Latin America home for centuries. This course seeks to expand our thinking about Latin American history by examining processes of transculturation, state building, economic liberalism, and globalization. This course will tell the history of North, South, and Central America and the Caribbean from the nineteenth century to today. The story of Latin America is not one of glorious triumph and success, but a story that is filled with the gamut of human experiences. We will honestly and openly discuss this history and the legacy of Latin America's past struggles. It is my hope that by the end of this course, you will have a better understanding not just of the facts, but of the processes and circumstances that have led Latin America to its present.

Colonial Latin America Syllabus

This course covers the history of Latin America from the pre-conquest era to independence in the early nineteenth-century. Through lectures, discussions, and a few audio-visual presentations, we will study the indigenous past, including the history of the Aztecs and other groups; the Spanish conquest of native American empires in the 16th century; how Spain and Portugal managed their overseas empires from a great distance; how colonists from all social groups created their identities; the importance of race and racial identity in colonial society; the role of honor, gender, and patriarchy in shaping women's experiences in colonial Latin America; and finally the root cause for independence.

Latin American Materials in the Comintern Archive

Latin American Research Review

With the collapse of the Soviet Union, restrictions on archives in Russia have diminished markedly. Some of the repositories have potential interest for Latin Americanists, including the Comintern Archive. This research note discusses the objectives of the archive and the types of material it contains. A list of the major collections relevant to Latin America is followed by comments on how to use the archive and websites that will facilitate research in Russia. Also provided are bibliographic references to academic studies on Latin America based on Comintern materials.

Library accumulation and the emergence of Latin American studies

Comparative American Studies, 2005

During the age of Pan-Americanism (1890-1940, US universities built impressive collections of books, periodicals, government papers, and manuscripts relating to Latin America. Collectors showed great interest in documents and books of the early Spanish colonial period, and they also gathered materials that could help account for the contemporary progress of Latin American societies. Implicit in these early library collections was the assumption that, in order to facilitate commerce and investment in the region, a prior understanding of Latin American culture, society and politics was needed. Hence, humanist and material interests converged in the building of comprehensive collections of 'Latin Americana', well before the formation of Latin American studies. The collective enterprise of building Latin American collections is placed in relation to the parallel and interwoven processes of development of mass-consumer capitalism and the emergence of research universities. Placing the origins of a regional knowledge within the context of capital accumulation and the materiality of 'book accumulation' contributes towards a better understanding of US-Latin American relations and, indirectly, towards a re-thinking of the true origins of multi-disciplinarity and area studies. Much before the Cold War, book-collectors, librarians and bibliographers had contributed to frame the foundations (the questions, interests and arguments) of what would become later the field called 'Latin American studies'.

Book Review- Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies

Celso Thomas Castilho. 2016. Slave Emancipation and Transformations in Brazilian Political Citizenship. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press. Current trends in the studies of abolitionism in Brazil have explored the agency of enslaved populations in their fight for emancipation. They have also developed important insights into the shaping of citizenship during the nineteenth century through debates on race, social belonging, and nation building. Celso Thomas Castilho, Assistant Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, in his most recent work titled Slave Emancipation and Transformations in Brazilian Political Citizenship (2016), greatly contributes to this field through the analysis of the social dynamics of rights-claiming during the contentious abolitionist debates of late nineteenth-century Recife. By focusing his research on the Northeast of Brazil, Castilho enriches studies of slavery and abolition which, according to Petrônio Domingues and Flávio Gomes, 1 lack greater investigation beyond the country's Southeastern region. Castilho's focus on Recife, however, does not limit the research to the experiences of its population during the abolitionist period, as he includes regional, national, and international debates involving slavery and emancipation, placing Recife in a complex web of political, social, economic, and ideological decisions. He situates the reader into that heated historical moment between the 1860s and 1880s, providing an invigorating perspective on the interplay of power, influence, and the defining of citizenship between the slaveholders, abolitionists, state officials, the press, and ordinary people of the city. Through analysis of social actors from such varied backgrounds Castilho utilizes a historiographical approach that Jeffrey Needell defended as essential to understanding the " nature and timing of many of the phenomena " of late nineteenth century Brazil. 2 This approach, by focusing on the social aspects of slavery and abolition, does not, however, overlook the role of elites and politics during this period.