New Books in Latin American Studies
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Jorge Canizares-Esguerra, "Nature, Empire, And ...
In the late 1500s, the mines of Potosí –a mountain in southern Bolivia — produced 60% of the world’s silver...
34 min
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C. J. Alvarez, "Border Land, Border Water: A Hi...
Alvarez offers an over one-hundred-year history that extends to before the building of a border wall in 1990...
57 min
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Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, "Banned: Immigration E...
Immigration is one of the most complex issues of our time in the United States...
40 min
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Benjamin Breen, "The Age of Intoxication: Origi...
Focusing in on the Portuguese colonies in Brazil and Angola and on the imperial capital of Lisbon, Breen deftly explores the process by which novel drugs were located, commodified, and consumed...
59 min
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Lennox Honychurch, "In the Forests of Freedom: ...
Maroons—enslaved Africans who escaped and formed autonomous communities—dominated Dominica’s hilly interior for centuries...
48 min
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Joshua Simon, "The Ideology of the Creole Revol...
Simon compares the political thought of three Creole revolutionary leaders: Alexander Hamilton, Simón Bolívar and Lucas Alamán...
65 min
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Luis Martínez-Fernández, "Key to the New World:...
Martínez-Fernández talks about his Latin American upbringing, the history of pre-contact Cuba, the historical context of Western Europe in 1492, the deep connection between sugar production and slavery, and so much more...
68 min
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William D. Lopez, "Separated: Family & Communit...
What happens to families and communities after immigration raids?
25 min
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Donna Guy, "Creating Charismatic Bonds in Argen...
Using letters written by Argentine citizens to the Perón couple between 1946 and 1955, Guy offers a nuanced approach to understand charisma...
54 min
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Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter...
We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?
54 min
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Amy Offner, "Sorting Out the Mixed Economy: The...
Offner shows how strategies such as self-help housing, for-profit privatized state-functions, and austere social programs were well-trodded decades earlier in the mid-century “mixed economy"...
58 min
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David Wheat, "Atlantic Africa and the Spanish C...
Wheat argues that the extensive participation of Luso-Africans, Latinized Africans, and free people of color made possible Spain’s colonization of the Caribbean...
58 min
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Penelope Plaza Azuaje, “Culture as Renewable Oi...
How do states use cultural policy?
32 min
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S. Deborah Kang, "The INS on the Line: Making I...
Kang explores the history behind Immigration and Naturalization Service throughout the 20th Century,..
47 min
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Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
What do university presses do, and how do they do it?
37 min
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Kathleen M. McIntyre, "Protestantism and State ...
McIntyre explores the impact of Protestantism on Catholic indigenous communities in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca in the period directly following the Mexican Revolution 1910-1920...
52 min
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Gary J. Adler, Jr., "Empathy Beyond US Borders:...
Do immersion trips really transform those who participate and how so?
54 min
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Christina Jiménez, "Making an Urban Public: Pop...
"Making an Urban Public" is a social history of the city of Morelia, located in Western Mexico in the state of Michoacán...
48 min
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J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intell...
The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...
29 min
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Julia Young, "Mexican Exodus: Emigrants, Exiles...
Young reframes the Cristero war as a transnational conflict...
49 min
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Lorena Oropeza, "The King of Adobe: Reies López...
Oropeza sheds new light on one of Chicano history’s most notorious figures...
67 min
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Elena Albarrán, "Seen and Heard in Mexico: Chil...
Albarran explores the changing politics of childhood during the period 1920-1940, in the wake of the Mexican Revolution...
48 min
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Nora Jaffary, "Reproduction and its Discontents...
Jaffary tracks how medical ideas, practices, and policies surrounding reproduction changed between the late eighteenth and early twentieth centuries in Mexico...
67 min
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Tyson Reeder, "Smugglers, Pirates, and Patriots...
Reeder delineates the differences between the British and Portuguese empires as they struggled with revolutionary tumult...
74 min
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Claudia Leal, "Landscapes of Freedom: Building ...
Leal narrates the unknown history of the transition from slavery to freedom in the Pacific lowlands of Colombia...
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