Routledge Studies in the History of the Americas
Football and Oral History in Brazil
1st Edition
Edited
By Raphael Rajão Ribeiro, Bernardo Buarque de Hollanda
October 24, 2025
This book examines the popularity of football in Latin America and the importance of sound archives in a country in which orality is the basis of important social relations. The development of modern sports in the region is connected to wider national and state-building processes. In this sense, ...
Fashioning Society in Eighteenth-Century British Jamaica
1st Edition
By Chloe Northrop
July 30, 2025
White women who inhabited the West Indies in the eighteenth century fascinated metropolitan observers. In popular prints, novels, and serial publications, these women appeared to stray from "proper" British societal norms. Although many women who lived in the Caribbean island of Jamaica might have ...
Histories of Solitude: Colombia, 1820s-1970s
1st Edition
Edited
By A. Ricardo López-Pedreros, Lina Britto
July 30, 2025
By combining chronological coverage, analytical breadth, and interdisciplinary approaches, these two volumes—Histories of Solitude and Histories of Perplexity—study the histories of Colombia over the last two centuries as illustrations of the histories of democracy across the Americas. The volumes ...
Latin America and the World's Fairs, 1867-1939
1st Edition
Edited
By Paula Bruno, Sven Schuster
July 13, 2025
This book examines the World’s Fairs that took place from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1930s, with a particular emphasis on Latin America. It introduces the notion of "cultural world maps" to understand these events as reflections of the global landscape. The fairs played a crucial role in ...
Reterritorializing the Spaces of Violence in Colombia: Collective Efforts
1st Edition
By Constanza López Baquero
June 26, 2025
This volume examines how violence and resilience is experienced in urban spaces, and explores the history of a variety of people told from the perspective of the margins. Reterritorializing the Spaces of Violence in Colombia provides critical and empirical examples of individuals and groups who ...
Uruguay in Transnational Perspective
1st Edition
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By Pedro Cameselle-Pesce, Debbie Sharnak
January 30, 2025
Most of the world knows Uruguay only for its soccer team, or its vaunted title as the "Switzerland of South America," an enduring moniker given to the country for its earlier social welfare policies and relative stability. Even many scholarly narratives of Latin America fail to integrate the ...
Remaking Indigeneity in the Amazon: Christianity, Colonization and the State
1st Edition
By Esteban Rozo
December 18, 2024
Drawing on archival and ethnographic work, this book analyzes how indigeneity, Christianity and state-making became intertwined in the Colombian Amazon throughout the 20th century. At the end of the 19th century, the state gave Catholic missionaries tutelage over Indigenous groups and their ...
A Plurilingual History of the Portuguese Language in the Luso-Brazilian Empire
1st Edition
By Luciane Scarato
November 28, 2024
This book investigates the diverse ways in which the Portuguese language expanded in Brazil, despite the multilingual landscape that predominated before and after the arrival of the Europeans and the African diaspora. Challenging the assumption that the prevalence of Portuguese was a natural ...
An International History of South America in the Era of Military Rule: Geared for War
1st Edition
By Sebastián Hurtado-Torres, Joaquín Fermandois
November 28, 2024
Based on research conducted in archives in six countries, An International History of South America in the Era of Military Rule: Geared for War offers a detailed account of the tensions and fears of war that engulfed South America in the 1970s, when most countries of the region were ruled by ...
New World Empires: Cultures of Power and Governance in the Americas
1st Edition
By Ilhan Niaz
November 15, 2024
This book is a sweeping reexamination of the evolution of the state, covering the indigenous orders of pre-Columbian America, the Spanish, Portuguese, and British Empires in the Americas, and their major successor states of Mexico, Brazil, and the United States. Exploring the mechanisms of colonial...
Social Struggle and Civil Society in Nineteenth Century Cuba
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard E. Morris
October 08, 2024
This collection of research from Cuba scholars explores key conflicts, episodes, currents, and tensions that helped shape Cuba as a modern, independent nation. Cuba in the nineteenth century was characterized by social struggle. Slavery, Spanish colonial rule, and racial tension permeated every ...
Police Writing and Radical Modernisation in the Porfiriato and the Conservative Republic (1870s-1910s)
1st Edition
By Agustina Carrizo de Reimann
August 28, 2024
This book explores the process of modernisation during the Porfiriato and the Conservative republic from the perspective of one of its most erratic agents: the urban police. Taking a pragmalinguistic approach, this book examines police bureaucratic, journalistic, and literary writing practices that...