Routledge Studies in the History of the Americas
Mutualism, Cooperation, and Solidarity in Chile: From National-Populism to Neoliberalism, 1920–2020
1st Edition
By Fernando Venegas Espinoza
September 01, 2026
This book offers a historical and critical analysis of mutualism in Chile between 1920 and 2020, challenging the conventional view that regards it as a residual phenomenon following the consolidation of the welfare state. Drawing on an approach that integrates social, cultural, and economic history...
Latin American Conservatism and the Rise of the Far Right
1st Edition
Edited
By Lenon Campos Maschette, Mark Garnett
August 10, 2026
Latin American Conservatism and the Rise of the Far-Right is a comparative study that focuses on contemporary conservatism in Latin America and its historical development, seeking to identify and analyze dialogues, similarities, and differences between countries in the Global South and North, as ...
New World Empires: Cultures of Power and Governance in the Americas
1st Edition
By Ilhan Niaz
May 21, 2026
This book is a sweeping reexamination of the evolution of the state, covering the indigenous orders of pre-Columbian America, the Spanish, Portuguese, and British Empires in the Americas, and their major successor states of Mexico, Brazil, and the United States. Exploring the mechanisms of colonial...
Police Writing and Radical Modernisation in the Porfiriato and the Conservative Republic (1870s-1910s)
1st Edition
By Agustina Carrizo de Reimann
December 25, 2025
This book explores the process of modernisation during the Porfiriato and the Conservative republic from the perspective of one of its most erratic agents: the urban police. Taking a pragmalinguistic approach, this book examines police bureaucratic, journalistic, and literary writing practices that...
The Dominicans in the Americas and the Philippines (c. 1500–c. 1820): Devotional Life, Catholic Literary Culture, and Models of Holiness
1st Edition
Edited
By David T. Orique, Rady Roldán-Figueroa, Cynthia Folquer
December 25, 2025
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
1st Edition
By Krzysztof Siwek
December 25, 2025
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 ...
Writing Journalism History: The Press and Academia in Brazil
1st Edition
By Otávio Daros
December 25, 2025
This book examines the trajectory of the historical knowledge about journalism produced by its scholars in Brazil, from the early accounts originating from the Brazilian Historical and Geographic Institute in the 19th century to the specialized academic field at the turn of the 21st century. The ...
Football and Oral History in Brazil
1st Edition
Edited
By Raphael Rajão Ribeiro, Bernardo Buarque de Hollanda
October 23, 2025
This book examines the popularity of football in Latin America and the importance of sound archives in a country in which orality is the basis of important social relations. The development of modern sports in the region is connected to wider national and state-building processes. In this ...
Histories of Perplexity: Colombia, 1970s-2010s
1st Edition
Edited
By A. Ricardo López-Pedreros, Lina Britto
September 28, 2025
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 ...
Fashioning Society in Eighteenth-Century British Jamaica
1st Edition
By Chloe Northrop
July 30, 2025
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 Solitude: Colombia, 1820s-1970s
1st Edition
Edited
By A. Ricardo López-Pedreros, Lina Britto
July 30, 2025
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 ...
Latin America and the World's Fairs, 1867-1939
1st Edition
Edited
By Paula Bruno, Sven Schuster
July 13, 2025
This book examines the World’s Fairs that took place from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1930s, with a particular emphasis on Latin America. It introduces the notion of "cultural world maps" to understand these events as reflections of the global landscape. The fairs played a crucial role in ...