With the return to democracy in 1983, Argentines experienced new freedoms, including sexual freedoms...

Beckett offers an examination of “crisis” in Haiti, and pushes back against the widespread racist idea that Haiti is inherently lawless by showing the ongoing production of disorder, the scripting of crisis, and the concatenation of disaster...

Scarfi shows the central role of a coterie of elite Latin American jurists and intellectuals in constructing a Pan-American inflected conception of international law...

Drinot studies the interplay of sexuality, society, and the state in Peru in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries...

Mexico today is one of the most dangerous places in the world to report the news, and Mexicans have taken to the street to defend freedom of expression...

Zien examines the ways politicians, activists, artists, and residents performed and interpreted sovereignty in the Canal Zone...

Shesko an intimate and rich history of the militarization of Bolivia over the course of the twentieth century through the lives of the men conscripted to serve...

Soreanu formulates a theory of collective trauma, drawing on the work of Sándor Ferenczi...

Sáenz follows the trajectory of physicians in their quest for the professionalization of medicine in Mexico...

Hetherington dives into the fate of Paraguay’s Pink Tide regime...

Hanna Garth examines the processes of acquiring food and preparing meals in the midst of food shortages...

Pettway examines how the portrayal of African ideas of spirit and cosmos in otherwise conventional texts recur throughout early Cuban literature and became the basis for Manzano and Plácido’s antislavery philosophy...

The Spanish Empire in particular was created for and founded upon the mining and coining of silver ore from its colonies...

Rueda offers a history of student organizing against dictatorship in twentieth-century Nicaragua...

Carballo provides a deep history of the encounter, one that considers temporal depth in the richly layered cultures of Mexico and Spain...

Kimball argues that, despite stigma and continued legal prohibitions, practices and attitudes surrounding abortion have changed in urban Bolivia since the 1950s..

Bronfman traces the emergence and growth of telecommunications technologies in Haiti, Jamaica, and Cuba during the first half of the twentieth century...

Kerr argues that Argentine scientific projects of the era were not just racial encounters, but were also conditioned by sexual relationships in all their messy, physical reality...

Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, has been ranked as one of the most violent cities in the world...

Haenn tells the stories of five women in rural Mexico, each navigating the tricky terrain that is men’s international migration...

The Cold War is not exactly over in Latin America...

Harambour examines the explosion of foreign-owned sheep farming, the fitful expansion of Argentine and Chilean sovereignty, and the violence of primitive accumulation and genocide in southern Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego...

Garcia sets sparks flying by inviting us to explore the literature and theory created by 20th and 21st century writers who deploy sign systems...

Employing traditional historical scholarship, oral history, creative nonfiction and original art, the book provides a radical new history of El Monte and South El Monte...

The authors draw on eight years of feminist participatory action research conducted with fifty-four Q’eqchi’, Kaqchikel, Chuj, and Mam women to explore Mayan women’s agency in their search for truth, justice, and reparation...