... The historical literature on Mexico during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is vast and growing at a dizzying pace. This brief essay lists some of the most important scholarly works in English. The references and bibliographies contained in these works provide points of departure for further...

... Nigeria Protectorate in the first half of the twentieth century. The chapter also explores how colonial rule set the framework for Muslim and Christian collective political action in this vast region by the end of the Second World War, when the British authorities embarked on a process of decolonization...

... the local communities in this vast and diverse region. Hausa-Fulani Muslims Sokoto Caliphate Church Missionary Society Christian-educated elites Yoruba region  ...

... This chapter reviews the way that new state programs of distribution intersect with existing processes and practices of distribution. There is a vast and rich regional literature on the multiple livelihood practices that are utilized by low-income people across the region, and on the social...

... from grappling with the vast geographical space from a variety of interactive assignments, whether they are making their own maps or using Google Earth to explore. Primary sources and novels are important ways to connect students to this history. The chapter details specific texts as well as techniques...

... Chapter 3 examines another vast televisual landscape, that of India. This chapter maps the shifting and varied constructions of place, space, and sociotemporalities that have shaped Indian TV, noting that questions of scale in India are strongly inflected by marked forms of social and cultural...

... about this “emergency” was the speed with which it occurred and the competition for visibility among aid organizations, as well as how quickly they assigned blame. The vast media attention and funding initially available pushed the humanitarian response into a maelstrom of visibility politics...

... of the nation. These communities reflected a traditional, hierarchical system of castes. While the new enclosures destabilized many agrarian communities through the contraction and privatization of vast tracts of communally held and managed lands, they also produced new distinctions between racialized farm...

...Written Cities Part VII, “Written Cities,” looks at the city’s vast archive of literature, visual arts, and nonfiction writing to highlight recurrent themes in efforts to represent and imagine Buenos Aires. Documents explore visual and written representations of the city and its neighborhoods...

... of the exposition, showing how the vast number of materials from all over the globe overwhelmed missionary organizers and visitors. By creating a visual regime, the exposition presented Indigenous culture as what Pope Pius XI termed “silent eloquence.” He positioned Indigenous belongings as trophies of his domain...

... This chapter situates Vallée’s appeal within the context of a more gender-fluid 1920s masculinity, drawing on his vast archive of news clippings and photographs, recordings, radio scripts, and films to affirm and analyze his status as a broadly popular American star across lines of class...

... of their distance from and disdain toward the vast majority of the territory’s rural residents. The introduction considers the state of Spanish empire at midcentury, as the Cuban governor plotted together with the Dominican president for annexation. Finally, the introduction presages the importance of the fighting...

..., they could present themselves as people who could mediate between the tourists’ everyday lives and Canada’s vast natural landscape. Chapter 4 addresses how this aura was produced through the deployment of fictive kinship terms and the development of quasi-family relationships in the transnational workers...

.... The androgynous, racially indeterminate legs of WalkingStick’s dancers, entwined in vines borrowed from Etruscan mosaics, claim a vast network of creative kin. modernist primitivism racial difference similitude Vanita Seth Renaissance art ...

... the federal government to pay off ethnic constituencies, but during the 1980s decreased amounts of oil revenues led to deepening authoritarianism and a normalization of corruption in the military. Nigeria became internationally notorious during the 1970s, when stories of vast sums squandered circled the globe...