Routledge Studies in the History of the Americas
American Divergences in the Great Recession
1st Edition
By Daniele Pompejano
May 31, 2023
Globalization is quite different from internationalization: the by-now global market economy overwhelmed the sovereignty of the old national states. Close to the 2007 crisis, some de-coupling effects were consequent in most developed countries in comparison with the ex-Third World. Latin America ...
Problems and Alternatives in the Modern Americas
1st Edition
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By Pablo A. Baisotti
May 31, 2023
This volume explores several notable themes related to political processes in Latin America and offers insightful historical perspectives to understand national, regional, and global issues in the continent from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day. The collected essays focus on ...
Rio de Janeiro in the Global Meat Market, c. 1850 to c. 1930: How Fresh and Salted Meat Arrived at the Carioca Table
1st Edition
By Maria-Aparecida Lopes
May 31, 2023
This book examines the meat provision system of Rio de Janeiro from the 1850s to the 1930s. Until the 1920s, Rio was Brazil’s economic hub, main industrial city, and prime consumer market. Meat consumption was an indicator of living standards and a matter of public concern. The work unveils that in...
Social and Political Transitions During the Left Turn in Latin America
1st Edition
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By Karen Silva-Torres, Carolina Rozo-Higuera, Daniel S. Leon
May 31, 2023
Social and Political Transitions During the Left Turn in Latin America provides fourteen contributions to understand, from a multidisciplinary perspective, processes of socio-political reconfigurations in the region from the early 2000s to the mid-2010s. The Left Turn was the regional shift to ...
The Nixon Administration and Cuba: Continuity and Rupture
1st Edition
By Håkan Karlsson, Tomás Diez Acosta
January 09, 2023
This book presents a detailed analysis of the U.S. policy that was adopted toward Cuba by the Richard M. Nixon administration between January 20, 1969, and August 8, 1974. Based on governmental, as well as other, sources from both the U.S. and Cuba, this book examines the rupture where the policy ...
The Unheard Voice of Law in Bartolomé de Las Casas’s Brevísima Relación de la Destruición de las Indias
1st Edition
By David T. Orique
January 09, 2023
The Unheard Voice of Law in Bartolomé de las Casas’s Brevísima relación de la destruición de las Indias reinterprets Las Casas’s controversial treatise as a legal document, whose legal character is linked to civil and ecclesial genres of the Early Modern and late Renaissance juridical tradition. ...
Translating Cuba: Literature, Music, Film, Politics
1st Edition
By Robert S. Lesman
January 09, 2023
Cuban culture has long been available to English speakers via translation. This study examines the complex ways in which English renderings of Cuban texts from various domains—poetry, science fiction, political and military writing, music, film—have represented, reshaped, or amended original texts....
Cartographic Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth-Century Americas
1st Edition
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By Ernesto Capello, Julia B. Rosenbaum
August 01, 2022
During the nineteenth century, gridding, graphing, and surveying proliferated as never before as nations and empires expanded into hitherto "unknown" territories. Though nominally geared toward justifying territorial claims and collecting scientific data, expeditions also produced vast troves of ...
Education in Revolutionary Struggles: Iván Illich, Paulo Freire, Ernesto Guevara and Latin American Thought
1st Edition
By Andrés Donoso Romo
August 01, 2022
Education in Revolutionary Struggles introduces us to the fascinating world of Latin American educational thought in the third quarter of the 20th century. It discusses the contributions of three of the most distinguished intellectuals of the period – Iván Illich, Paulo Freire and Ernesto Guevara –...
Hearing Enslaved Voices: African and Indian Slave Testimony in British and French America, 1700–1848
1st Edition
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By Sophie White, Trevor Burnard
August 01, 2022
This book focuses on alternative types of slave narratives, especially courtroom testimony, and interrogates how such narratives were produced, the societies (both those that were majority slave societies and those in which slaves were a distinct minority of the population) in which testimony was ...
Kinship and Incestuous Crime in Colonial Guatemala
1st Edition
By Sarah N. Saffa
August 01, 2022
Kinship and Incestuous Crime in Colonial Guatemala examines social relations in colonial Guatemala through the lens of incest. Using a combination of qualitative and quantitative analyses of incest trials from the Spanish secular courts, this study shows that incest codes were not homogenous nor ...
The Johnson Administration's Cuba Policy: From "Dirty War" to Passive Containment
1st Edition
By Håkan Karlsson, Tomás Diez Acosta
August 01, 2022
This book presents the reader with a detailed analysis of the U.S. policy toward Cuba that was designed and adopted by the Lyndon B. Johnson administration. Based in governmental and other sources from both the U.S. and Cuba, the book analyzes the changes in the U.S. policy and its political and ...