Routledge Studies in the History of the Americas
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 ...
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
Edited
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...
Setbacks and Advances in the Modern Latin American Economy
1st Edition
Edited
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
Edited
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
Edited
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
Edited
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 ...