Routledge Studies in the History of the Americas
Writing Journalism History: The Press and Academia in Brazil
1st Edition
By Otávio Daros
August 19, 2024
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 ...
The Dominicans in the Americas and the Philippines (c. 1500–c. 1820): Devotional Life, Catholic Literary Culture, and Models of Holiness
1st Edition
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By David T. Orique, Rady Roldán-Figueroa, Cynthia Folquer
August 06, 2024
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
July 17, 2024
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 ...
Narratives against Enslavement from the Court Rooms of Nineteenth-Century Brazil: Fighting for Freedom
1st Edition
By Clara Lunow
May 27, 2024
This book examines the enslavement system in nineteenth-century Brazil, demonstrating the strategies that lawyers and plaintiffs used to fight for freedom in court. In nineteenth-century Brazil, countless enslaved and freed women and men appealed to court to claim their right to freedom or that of ...
Recasting the Nation in Twentieth-Century Argentina
1st Edition
Edited
By Benjamin Bryce, David Sheinin
May 27, 2024
Recasting the Nation in Twentieth-Century Argentina tackles the meaning of "the nation" by looking to the geographical, ideological, and political peripheries of society. What it means to be Argentine has long consumed writers, political leaders, and many others. For almost two centuries prominent ...
The Middle Classes in Latin America: Subjectivities, Practices, and Genealogies
1st Edition
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By Mario Barbosa Cruz, A. Ricardo López-Pedreros, Claudia Stern
May 27, 2024
As a collective effort, this volume locates the formation of the middle classes at the core of the histories of Latin America in the last two centuries. Featuring scholars from different places across the Americas, it is an interdisciplinary contribution to the world histories of the middle classes...
Histories of Perplexity: Colombia, 1970s-2010s
1st Edition
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By A. Ricardo López-Pedreros, Lina Britto
March 19, 2024
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 ...
Setbacks and Advances in the Modern Latin American Economy
1st Edition
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By Pablo A. Baisotti
September 25, 2023
This volume explores several notable themes related to the economy in Latin America and offers insightful historical perspectives to understand national, regional, and global issues in the continent since the beginning of the 20th century to the present day. The collected essays focus on economic ...
Social, Political, and Religious Movements in the Modern Americas
1st Edition
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By Pablo A. Baisotti
September 25, 2023
This volume explores several notable themes related to social, political, and religious movements in Latin America and offers insightful historical perspectives to understand national, regional, and global issues from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day. This volume’s ...
The New Pan-Americanism and the Structuring of Inter-American Relations
1st Edition
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By Juan Pablo Scarfi, David M. K. Sheinin
September 25, 2023
What is Pan-Americanism? People have been struggling with that problem for over a century. Pan-Americanism is (and has been) an amalgam of diplomatic, political, economic, and cultural projects under the umbrella of hemispheric cooperation and housed institutionally in the Pan-American Union, and ...
The Policy of the Ford Administration Toward Cuba: Carrot and Stick
1st Edition
By Håkan Karlsson, Tomás Diez Acosta
September 25, 2023
This book presents new aspects of the U.S. Cuba policy during Gerald R. Ford’s presidency (August 9, 1974‒January 20, 1977). Based in governmental and other sources from the U.S. and Cuba, the book examines how the Ford administration broke with Nixon’s hostile policy when the diplomatic and ...
A New Struggle for Independence in Modern Latin America
1st Edition
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By Pablo A. Baisotti
May 31, 2023
This volume explores several notable themes related to foreign affairs in Latin America and the reconfiguration of the power of the different states in the region. It offers insightful historical perspectives for understanding national, regional and global issues from the beginning of the 20th ...