...Dan Hazen 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Archival Research and the Program for Latin American Libraries and Archives Dan Hazen The Program for Latin American Libraries and Archives, based at Harvard University, has, since 1996, awarded more than one hundred small grants to...

... three decades tremendous violence, instability, and public controversy. Yet historians are just starting to seriously research the topic. Psychoactive drugs, broadly conceived, have been central in Latin American history from pre-Columbian times to the present; this piece offers a long-term...

...Steven C. Topik 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 HAHR 80.2_03.topik.JO 4/13/00 4:45 PM Page 225 Coffee Anyone? Recent Research on Latin American Coffee Societies Steven C. Topik The recent explosion of the popularity of...

...Steven Palmer The paper reassesses the model of scientific success on the periphery advanced in Nancy Leys Stepan's analysis of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute in Beginnings of Brazilian Science by looking at a comparable, though ultimately less successful, bacteriological research facility in Havana...

... historical contingencies of reproductive labor with particular attention to the specificities of social relations, the impact of modernization and industrialization, and the role of policy makers and state agencies. These studies underscore the challenges of defining and researching this understudied area of...

...Stefan Pohl-Valero In Colombia early in the twentieth century, a field of research began to take shape that looked at work and the physiology of diet, centered on the analogy of the human body as a heat engine that transforms energy. Starting with the energy unit of calories, foods were translated...

... create, consume, and contest them. Over the last decade, the maps themselves have become increasingly accessible, as important research libraries and archives digitize their holdings. Yet these graphic texts are not yet staples of college curricula or documentary readers. This essay provides a brief...

...Paulo Drinot Recent research has reminded us of the centrality of anti-Communism to the politics of the Cold War in Latin America. This article focuses on a form of anti-Communism that I call creole anti-Communism, which predated the Cold War and was not imposed from abroad or indeed from above. In...

... project. This article argues that the dominant vision of Argentina as a white nation was built on not only transatlantic immigration but also Asian exclusion. Drawing on archival research in Buenos Aires and London, it casts new light on both Argentine nationalism and the language of racial hierarchies...

... criminal cases, indigenous, casta, and even creole witnesses and suspects required interpreters to translate their statements. This article builds on earlier research into indigenous-language documentation but shifts its emphasis to mundane genres produced by non-Mayas, demonstrating that the linguistic...

... Bordoy—and countless other domestic pairs—were (and continue to be) more maternalistic in nature. Her research suggests that middle-class or elite women, as opposed to their male partners, have often taken the lead in negotiating the affective terms of these relationships as well as the work to be done...

... population to improve the Brazilian nation. Analysis of a broad range of archival and published primary sources reveals the gradual racialization of the DGE's institutional definition of “progress.” The study contributes to a growing body of research that examines how racial thought influenced the...

...Simone Petraglia Kropf; Gilberto Hochman This article analyzes the ways in which the book Beginnings of Brazilian Science : Oswaldo Cruz, Medical Research and Policy, 1890 – 1920 , published by Nancy Leys Stepan in 1976, has been received in the debates on science and the history of science in...

... Americas, the authors focus on a range of subjects that have substantially engaged contemporary historians while opening up still more research avenues. These include the health of diverse populations; new perspectives on religion and on women's health; the historicizing of health systems, health politics...

...—concepts that researchers have identified as key in Peronist ideology—through a new focus on food. An increase in per capita beef consumption, beyond serving as a symbol of popular well-being, undermined the images of Argentina as an export economy subservient to foreign capitalism. By favoring internal...

... credibility to practices which, as recent research has shown, many of them had adopted on allegedly therapeutic grounds. Copyright 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Depopulation, Fascism, and Eugenics in 1930s Argentina Andrés H. Reggiani In August 1941 Lord Winterton asked the Argentine...

... his superiors. Officials from the diocese began to gather witness depositions on May 5, 1890—only five days before the vicar-general handed down his decision. 83 Ecclesial justifications for the dissolution had likely already been formulated, researched, and perhaps even drafted before the...