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Andean Cosmopolitans: Seeking Justice and Reward at the Spanish Royal Court
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2019) 99 (2): 357–359.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Adrian Masters Andean Cosmopolitans: Seeking Justice and Reward at the Spanish Royal Court . By José Carlos de la Puente Luna . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2018 . Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xii, 345 pp. Paper , $29.95 . Copyright © 2019 by Duke University...
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Serious Maricas and Their Male Concubines: Seeking Trans History and Intimacy in Argentine Police and Prison Records, 1921–1945
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (4): 651–678.
Published: 01 November 2023
... with a feminine identity. Historians seeking the genealogy of trans before the terms transexual and transgender were invented thus might fruitfully join scholars of homosexuality in interpreting these archives, while remaining aware of the dangers of anachronistic labeling in both trans and gay/lesbian...
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The Ecclesiastical Sources and Historical Research on the African Diaspora ...
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Figure 2 The Ecclesiastical Sources and Historical Research on the African Diaspora in Brazil and Cuba project seeks to preserve and disseminate slave records from the circum-Caribbean.
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Hurricane Winds: Vallenato Music and Marijuana Traffic in Colombia's First Illegal Drugs Boom
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2015) 95 (1): 71–102.
Published: 01 February 2015
... music. That process helped marimberos to open space for themselves in regional society and to turn vallenato into a supreme expression of Colombian popular culture. This essay examines that cultural-political process while seeking to explain why the marimberos' role in vallenato's history has been...
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Photographs of a Prayer: The (Neglected) Visual Archive and Latin American Labor History
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2015) 95 (3): 459–492.
Published: 01 August 2015
...Kevin Coleman Abstract Drawing on photographs of the 1954 banana workers' strike in Honduras, this article seeks to demonstrate the potential of the visual archive for recovering the historical agency of the working class. Photos from the archive of a studio photographer named Rafael Platero Paz...
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New Viceroyalty, New Nation, New Empire: A Transnational Imaginary for Peruvian Independence
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2011) 91 (2): 203–235.
Published: 01 May 2011
... of government or “national peak.” While there is a significant historiography on the Revolution of 1814–15, it has been largely overlooked in several key Latin American independence syntheses. This essay therefore also seeks to restore the movement to the center of wider historiographic debates on Latin...
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From the Beginnings: Debates on the History of Science in Brazil
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2011) 91 (3): 391–408.
Published: 01 August 2011
..., with a broader policy debate in Brazil and Spanish America on the particular features of science, and of the history of science, in the so-called developing countries. We also seek to show the extent to which some of the questions posed in The Beginnings of Brazilian Science are still richly relevant to academic...
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Migration and Labor in the Americas: Praxis, Knowledge, and Nations
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2012) 92 (2): 245–267.
Published: 01 May 2012
..., concerns over the future of labor organizing, and efforts to seek social justice. Drawing on the work of Paulo Freire in Pedagogy of the Oppressed , students in the seminars engage in praxis and work to deconstruct four interrelated and seemingly fixed binaries: structure and agency, theory and practice...
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Were Women and Young People the Heart of the Pinochet Regime? Rise and Decline of the Secretariats
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2013) 93 (4): 547–583.
Published: 01 November 2013
... that privilege the influence of foreign models in their formation, highlighting instead factors internal to Chile and seeking a more complete understanding of the dictatorship’s actions in regard to the secretariats. This analysis portrays the Chilean secretariats as different from their counterparts in other...
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The Bandeirantes of Freedom: The Prestes Column and the Myth of Brazil's Interior
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (1): 101–132.
Published: 01 February 2021
... of some of Brazil's most important figures, and for nearly a century it has attained a mythic status in folklore and political history. Seeking to both explain and intervene in this legend, I argue that the myth of the Prestes Column emerged from and remained tethered to the stigmatized image...
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Object, Room, Dwelling: Material Culture and the Indigenous City in the Colonial Andes
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2025) 105 (1): 35–63.
Published: 01 February 2025
...Jane E. Mangan Abstract This article analyzes objects and abodes to further the understanding of lived experience in colonial Andean cities. It builds on existing scholarship on women's dress by analyzing household objects and even domestic structures themselves. Seeking to elaborate on Indigenous...
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El Negro Raúl: Lives and Afterlives of an Afro-Argentine Celebrity, 1886 to the Present
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2016) 96 (4): 669–710.
Published: 01 November 2016
... the early 1900s to the present, reflected and reproduced ideas about degraded and disappearing blackness, and triumphant whiteness, in Argentina. Reading these racial stories alongside information about Raúl's life gleaned from archival sources, the article not only seeks to highlight the power...
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Between the “Old Law” And the New: Christian Translation, Indian Jurisdiction, and Criminal Justice in Colonial Oaxaca
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2016) 96 (3): 517–548.
Published: 01 August 2016
... seeking justice in Spanish courts, native judges and litigants—in conflict and alliance with Spanish civil and ecclesiastical officials—engaged in a spiraling process of translation that vernacularized colonial criminal justice. By putting the histories of Christian translation and of law and empire...
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Depopulation, Fascism, and Eugenics in 1930s Argentina
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (2): 283–318.
Published: 01 May 2010
... state archives, the essay seeks to revise conventional “neo-Lamarckian” explanations about Latin America’s (and Argentina’s) alleged immunity to negative eugenics. By examining the activities of the Asociación de Biotipología, the debates of the Second Pan-American Conference on Eugenics...
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The Rites of Statehood: Violence and Sovereignty in Spanish America, 1789–1821
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (3): 391–422.
Published: 01 August 2010
... that created a means, or space, to push vindictive patterns of violence into more vindictive directions. Violence was not of a piece, a constant display of carnage. The essay accordingly seeks to illustrate the varieties of uses of political violence and its changes over time, from the first crises...
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“This England and This Now”: British Cultural and Intellectual Influence in the Spanish American Independence Era
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (3): 423–454.
Published: 01 August 2010
...Karen Racine Abstract This essay argues that Great Britain provided the strongest and most relevant contemporary model for the Spanish American independence leaders. Over the course of two eventful decades, 1808 to 1826, over 70 patriot leaders made the long and difficult journey to London to seek...
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The Church and the National Security State
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1982) 62 (3): 538–540.
Published: 01 August 1982
...” or “church-state relations” must now be seen. Comblin closes with a striking discussion of the geopolitics of the churches. Until recently, these were founded on anticommunism and alignments in the “East-West” struggle, seeking the protection of governments to keep the churches going. Now, he argues...
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Tropical Capitalism: The Industrialization of Belo Horizonte, Brazil
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2003) 83 (4): 763–764.
Published: 01 November 2003
... political figures have taken power in countries such as Venezuela and Brazil—Eakin’s analysis of a successful state-driven program of industrialization suddenly takes on a special relevance for those seeking to solve Latin America’s most recent economic crisis or to understand the failure of the latest...
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Territories of Difference: Place, Movements, Life, Redes
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (2): 354–355.
Published: 01 May 2010
..., development, identity, and networks (the six main chapter titles). It was well worth waiting for. Escobar grounds his discussion of theory in the lived realities of Colombia’s Pacific coastal region and the Afro-Colombian social movements there that seek to protect territories, livelihoods (and indeed lives...
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Historia mínima de la expansión ferroviaria en América Latina
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2017) 97 (2): 361–362.
Published: 01 May 2017
... history specialists seeking comparative case studies of railway development. This relates to a second weakness in the volume—namely, that the chapters rarely provide any comparative analysis between the case studies, something that would have been useful for the readers most interested in this topic...
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