Soriano examines the links between the spread of radical ideas, literacy, and the circulation of information in a society without a printing press...

Reyes examines the ways Colombian artist Beatriz González and Argentine-born art critic Marta Traba railed against international forms of modernism...

Harmer explores how a young Chilean woman pursued her political commitments and navigated patriarchal strictures as a militant leftist...

Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...

Stevens uses the 1833 Cholera epidemic that devastated independent Mexico as his his point of departure, this is not primarily a medical history...

Fattal investigates the Colombian government’s campaign to turn Marxist guerrilla fighters in the FARC into consumer citizens...

Nobbs-Thiessen traces the entwined histories of Andean, Mennonite, and Okinawan migrants to Amazonian Bolivia...

Pérez explores how Cuba’s dependency on the sugar economy also made the island’s population dependent on food imports like rice.

Karl explores how Colombians grappled with violence and peace during and after the period known as “La Violencia”—a period that many historians situate between 1946 and the mid 1960s...

Uribe-Urán compares the cases of Spain, and the late-colonial societies of Mexico and Colombia, in a historical moment characterized by corporate patriarchy and enlightened punishment...

How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?

Randall focuses in this memoir on recreating the communities and historical moments in which she lived. Randall especially emphasizes how her encounter with feminist thinking reshaped how she understood not only her own life, but also the Latin American revolutions she saw up from up close...

The essays in this volume reshape our understanding of Latin America's Long Cold War.

Blanc tells the story of the the Itaipu dam, a massive hydroelectric complex built on the Brazil-Paraguay border in the 1970s and 1980s...

Britto tells the forgotten story of the first boom in illicit drugs in the Greater Magdalena region of Colombia...

Roth examines women's reproductive health in relation to legal and medical policy in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil...

Stauffer reconstructs the history of Mexico's forgotten "Religionero" rebellion of 1873-1877, an armed Catholic challenge to the government of Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada...

Kaplan’s case studies of Columbia – with extensions to Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, and the Philippines – demonstrates how, why, and when civilians effectively resist the influence of armed actors and limit violence...

According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...

Stein analyses the longstanding failure of America’s theatre industry to address issues of diversity...

Appelbaum reconstructs how elites, through visual and textual methodologies, envisioned the nation and its component parts...

Hidalgo sheds new light on the purpose, production, and preservation of maps as well as the lives of Indigenous peoples and Spaniards alike involved in their production...

Van Roekel approaches the question: how do survivors, victims, and perpetrators of political violence experience justice on their own terms?

How does the world of book reviews work?

Edwards has produced the first comprehensive study in English of the history of African descendants outside of Buenos Aires in the late colonial and early republican periods...