Routledge Studies in Global Latin America
About the Book Series
Routledge Studies in Global Latin America publishes critical, post-Area Studies scholarship that connects local histories with the global history of modernity. The editors are keen to publish in those areas where Latin or Iberian America has played a pioneering role in global history.
Toward an Intercultural Natural History of Brazil: The Historia Naturalis Brasiliae Reconsidered
1st Edition
By Mariana Françozo
August 26, 2024
This volume presents the first extensive census of the surviving copies of the treatise Historia Naturalis Brasiliae in libraries worldwide and examines the book from a variety of interdisciplinary viewpoints. The chapters in this volume are written by scholars from different fields of knowledge, ...
The Invention of Humboldt: On the Geopolitics of Knowledge
1st Edition
Edited
By Mark Thurner, Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra
December 28, 2022
The Invention of Humboldt is a game-changing volume of essays by leading scholars of the Hispanic world that explodes many myths about Alexander von Humboldt and his world. Rather than ‘follow in Humboldt’s footsteps,’ this book outlines the new critical horizon of post-Humboldtian Humboldt studies...
A History of Book Publishing in Contemporary Latin America
1st Edition
By Gustavo Sorá
September 26, 2022
This book presents a cultural history of Latin America as seen through a symbolic good and a practice – the book, and the act of publication – two elements that have had an irrefutable power in shaping the modern world. The volume combines multiple theoretical approaches and empirical landscapes ...