Routledge Studies in the History of the Americas
The Last Year of President Kennedy and the "Multiple Path" Policy Toward Cuba
1st Edition
By Håkan Karlsson, Tomás Diez Acosta
December 13, 2021
This book presents new aspects of the U.S. "multiple path" policy toward Cuba that was designed and adopted after the Missile Crisis (October 1962) until the assassination of President Kennedy on November 22, 1963, from a Cuban perspective. The policy was characterized by its contradictory profile,...
Transnational Perspectives on the Conquest and Colonization of Latin America
1st Edition
Edited
By Jenny Mander, David Midgley, Christine Beaule
December 13, 2021
Ranging geographically from Tierra del Fuego to California and the Caribbean, and historically from early European sightings and the utopian projects of would-be colonizers to the present-day cultural politics of migrant communities and international relations, this volume presents a rich variety ...
Science and Society in Latin America: Peripheral Modernities
1st Edition
By Pablo Kreimer
June 30, 2021
In the form of a sociological pilgrimage, this book approaches some topics essential to understanding the role of science in Latin America, juxtaposing several approaches and exploring three main lines: First, the production and use of knowledge in these countries, viewed from a historical and ...
The Global Perspective of Urban Labor in Mexico City, 1910–1929: El Mundo al Revés
1st Edition
By Stephan Fender
June 30, 2021
The Global Perspective of Urban Labor in Mexico City, 1910–1929 examines the global entanglement of the Mexican labor movement during the Mexican Revolution. It describes how global influences made their entry into labor culture through the cinema, the theater, and labor festivals as well as into ...
Traces and Memories of Slavery in the Atlantic World
1st Edition
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By Lawrence Aje, Nicolas Gachon
June 30, 2021
Traces and Memories deals with the foundation, mechanisms and scope of slavery-related memorial processes, interrogating how descendants of enslaved populations reconstruct the history of their ancestors when transatlantic slavery is one of the variables of the memorial process. While memory ...
Negotiating Freedom in the Circum-Caribbean: The Jamaican Maroons and Creek Nation Compared
1st Edition
By Helen M. McKee
September 30, 2020
Bringing together Jamaican Maroons and indigenous communities into one framework – for the first time – McKee compares and contrasts how these non-white, semi-autonomous communities were ultimately reduced by Anglophone colonists. In particular, questions are asked about Maroon and Creek ...
The Missile Crisis from a Cuban Perspective: Historical, Archaeological and Anthropological Reflections
1st Edition
By Håkan Karlsson, Tomás Diez Acosta
September 30, 2020
Previous works on the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) have approached the topic from the point of view of the U.S. and its allies, while Cuban experiences have still not been sufficiently discussed. This book presents new aspects which have seldom – or never – been offered before, giving a detailed ...
Mexico, 1848-1853: Los Años Olvidados
1st Edition
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By Pedro Santoni, Will Fowler
June 30, 2020
Historians have paid scant attention to the five years that span from the conclusion early in 1848 of Mexico’s disastrous conflict with the United States to the final return to power in April 1853 of General Antonio López de Santa Anna. This volume presents a more thorough understanding of this ...
Tuberculosis in the Americas, 1870-1945: Beneath the Anguish in Philadelphia and Buenos Aires
1st Edition
By Vera Blinn Reber
June 30, 2020
This book focuses on the era during which the cause of tuberculosis had been identified, and public health officials were seeking to prevent it, but scientists had not yet found a cure. By examining tuberculosis comparatively in two Atlantic port cities, Buenos Aires and Philadelphia, it explores ...
The Monroe Doctrine in a Contemporary Perspective
1st Edition
By Denneth M. Modeste
February 04, 2020
This book surveys the impact of the Monroe Doctrine on United States relations with Latin America, with a particular focus on the Caribbean Basin, since its proclamation in 1823. It explores the historical role of the Monroe Doctrine as the instrument to foreclose future European colonial ...
The Memory of the Argentina Disappearances: The Political History of Nunca Mas
1st Edition
By Emilio Crenzel
November 17, 2017
Memory of the Argentina Disappearances examines the history of the production, public circulation, and the interpretations and reinterpretations of the Nunca Más report issued by Argentina’s National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons (CONADEP). It was established in 1983 by constitutional ...
Projections of Power in the Americas
1st Edition
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By Helene Balslev Clausen, Niels Bjerre-Poulsen, Jan Gustafsson
May 24, 2017
Two phenomena are of central interest in the nine contributions that make up this volume: one is the question of power and its multiple forms, and the other is that geographical, political and cultural multifaceted unity we call the ‘the Americas’. The book is a multidisciplinary effort, written by...