Routledge Studies in the History of the Americas
Police Writing and Radical Modernisation in the Porfiriato and the Conservative Republic (1870s-1910s)
1st Edition
By Agustina Carrizo de Reimann
December 25, 2025
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...
The Dominicans in the Americas and the Philippines (c. 1500–c. 1820): Devotional Life, Catholic Literary Culture, and Models of Holiness
1st Edition
Edited
By David T. Orique, Rady Roldán-Figueroa, Cynthia Folquer
December 25, 2025
The Dominicans in the Americas and the Philippines (c. 1500–c. 1820) is part of a renewal of interest in the global history of the Dominican Order. Many of the essays were carefully selected among some of the papers presented at the III International Conference on the History of the Order of ...
The Political Coexistence of the United States with Cuba, 1961-1975
1st Edition
By Krzysztof Siwek
December 25, 2025
This book investigates the phenomenon of the political coexistence of the United States with Cuba that developed between the beginning of the John F. Kennedy administration and the Cold War détente of the mid-1970s. It is revealed that due to the US global commitments, related to the Cold War and ...
Writing Journalism History: The Press and Academia in Brazil
1st Edition
By Otávio Daros
December 25, 2025
This book examines the trajectory of the historical knowledge about journalism produced by its scholars in Brazil, from the early accounts originating from the Brazilian Historical and Geographic Institute in the 19th century to the specialized academic field at the turn of the 21st century. The ...
Football and Oral History in Brazil
1st Edition
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By Raphael Rajão Ribeiro, Bernardo Buarque de Hollanda
October 23, 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 ...
Histories of Perplexity: Colombia, 1970s-2010s
1st Edition
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By A. Ricardo López-Pedreros, Lina Britto
September 28, 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 past two centuries as illustrations of the histories of democracy across the Americas. The volumes ...
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 ...