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Writing Journalism History The Press and Academia in Brazil

Writing Journalism History: The Press and Academia in Brazil

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By Otávio Daros
August 30, 2024

This book critically examines the transformations of historical knowledge about the journalism produced in Brazil. Beginning with an analysis of the first accounts, originating from the activities of the Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro and its provincial/state counterparts, in the 19th...

The Dominicans in the Americas and the Philippines (c. 1500–c. 1820) Devotional Life, Catholic Literary Culture, and Models of Holiness

The Dominicans in the Americas and the Philippines (c. 1500–c. 1820): Devotional Life, Catholic Literary Culture, and Models of Holiness

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By David Orique, Rady Roldán-Figueroa, Cynthia Folquer
August 02, 2024

The Dominicans in the Americas and the Philippines (c. 1500–c. 1820) is part of a renewal of interest in the global history of the Dominican Order. Many of the essays were carefully selected among some of the papers presented at the III International Conference on the History of the Order of ...

The Political Coexistence of the United States with Cuba, 1961-1975

The Political Coexistence of the United States with Cuba, 1961-1975

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By Krzysztof Siwek
July 17, 2024

This book investigates the phenomenon of the political coexistence of the United States with Cuba that developed between the beginning of the John F. Kennedy administration and the Cold War détente of the mid-1970s. It is revealed that due to the US global commitments, related to the Cold War and ...

Narratives against Enslavement from the Court Rooms of Nineteenth-Century Brazil Fighting for Freedom

Narratives against Enslavement from the Court Rooms of Nineteenth-Century Brazil: Fighting for Freedom

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By Clara Lunow
May 27, 2024

This book examines the enslavement system in nineteenth-century Brazil, demonstrating the strategies that lawyers and plaintiffs used to fight for freedom in court. In nineteenth-century Brazil, countless enslaved and freed women and men appealed to court to claim their right to freedom or that of ...

Recasting the Nation in Twentieth-Century Argentina

Recasting the Nation in Twentieth-Century Argentina

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Edited By Benjamin Bryce, David Sheinin
May 27, 2024

Recasting the Nation in Twentieth-Century Argentina tackles the meaning of "the nation" by looking to the geographical, ideological, and political peripheries of society. What it means to be Argentine has long consumed writers, political leaders, and many others. For almost two centuries prominent ...

The Middle Classes in Latin America Subjectivities, Practices, and Genealogies

The Middle Classes in Latin America: Subjectivities, Practices, and Genealogies

1st Edition

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Edited By Mario Barbosa Cruz, A. Ricardo López-Pedreros, Claudia Stern
May 27, 2024

As a collective effort, this volume locates the formation of the middle classes at the core of the histories of Latin America in the last two centuries. Featuring scholars from different places across the Americas, it is an interdisciplinary contribution to the world histories of the middle classes...

Fashioning Society in Eighteenth-Century British Jamaica

Fashioning Society in Eighteenth-Century British Jamaica

1st Edition

By Chloe Northrop
March 20, 2024

White women who inhabited the West Indies in the eighteenth century fascinated metropolitan observers. In popular prints, novels, and serial publications, these women appeared to stray from "proper" British societal norms. Although many women who lived in the Caribbean island of Jamaica might have ...

Histories of Perplexity Colombia, 1970s-2010s

Histories of Perplexity: Colombia, 1970s-2010s

1st Edition

Edited By A. Ricardo López-Pedreros, Lina Britto
March 19, 2024

By combining chronological coverage, analytical breadth, and interdisciplinary approaches, these two volumes—Histories of Solitude and Histories of Perplexity—study the histories of Colombia over the past two centuries as illustrations of the histories of democracy across the Americas. The volumes ...

Histories of Solitude Colombia, 1820s-1970s

Histories of Solitude: Colombia, 1820s-1970s

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Edited By A. Ricardo López-Pedreros, Lina Britto
March 19, 2024

By combining chronological coverage, analytical breadth, and interdisciplinary approaches, these two volumes—Histories of Solitude and Histories of Perplexity—study the histories of Colombia over the last two centuries as illustrations of the histories of democracy across the Americas. The volumes ...

Reterritorializing the Spaces of Violence in Colombia Collective Efforts

Reterritorializing the Spaces of Violence in Colombia: Collective Efforts

1st Edition

By Constanza López Baquero
February 05, 2024

This volume examines how violence and resilience is experienced in urban spaces, and explores the history of a variety of people told from the perspective of the margins. Reterritorializing the Spaces of Violence in Colombia provides critical and empirical examples of individuals and groups who ...

Remaking Indigeneity in the Amazon Christianity, Colonization and the State

Remaking Indigeneity in the Amazon: Christianity, Colonization and the State

1st Edition

By Esteban Rozo
September 28, 2023

Drawing on archival and ethnographic work, this book analyzes how indigeneity, Christianity and state-making became intertwined in the Colombian Amazon throughout the 20th century. At the end of the 19th century, the state gave Catholic missionaries tutelage over Indigenous groups and their ...

Setbacks and Advances in the Modern Latin American Economy

Setbacks and Advances in the Modern Latin American Economy

1st Edition

Edited By Pablo Baisotti
September 25, 2023

This volume explores several notable themes related to the economy in Latin America and offers insightful historical perspectives to understand national, regional, and global issues in the continent since the beginning of the 20th century to the present day. The collected essays focus on economic ...

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