Routledge Studies in the History of the Americas
Reterritorializing the Spaces of Violence in Colombia: Collective Efforts
1st Edition
By Constanza López Baquero
June 26, 2025
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 ...
Uruguay in Transnational Perspective
1st Edition
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By Pedro Cameselle-Pesce, Debbie Sharnak
January 30, 2025
Most of the world knows Uruguay only for its soccer team, or its vaunted title as the "Switzerland of South America," an enduring moniker given to the country for its earlier social welfare policies and relative stability. Even many scholarly narratives of Latin America fail to integrate the ...
Remaking Indigeneity in the Amazon: Christianity, Colonization and the State
1st Edition
By Esteban Rozo
December 18, 2024
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 ...
A Plurilingual History of the Portuguese Language in the Luso-Brazilian Empire
1st Edition
By Luciane Scarato
November 28, 2024
This book investigates the diverse ways in which the Portuguese language expanded in Brazil, despite the multilingual landscape that predominated before and after the arrival of the Europeans and the African diaspora. Challenging the assumption that the prevalence of Portuguese was a natural ...
An International History of South America in the Era of Military Rule: Geared for War
1st Edition
By Sebastián Hurtado-Torres, Joaquín Fermandois
November 28, 2024
Based on research conducted in archives in six countries, An International History of South America in the Era of Military Rule: Geared for War offers a detailed account of the tensions and fears of war that engulfed South America in the 1970s, when most countries of the region were ruled by ...
Social Struggle and Civil Society in Nineteenth Century Cuba
1st Edition
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By Richard E. Morris
October 08, 2024
This collection of research from Cuba scholars explores key conflicts, episodes, currents, and tensions that helped shape Cuba as a modern, independent nation. Cuba in the nineteenth century was characterized by social struggle. Slavery, Spanish colonial rule, and racial tension permeated every ...
Narratives against Enslavement from the Court Rooms of Nineteenth-Century Brazil: Fighting for Freedom
1st Edition
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
1st Edition
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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
1st Edition
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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...
Setbacks and Advances in the Modern Latin American Economy
1st Edition
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By Pablo A. 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 ...
Social, Political, and Religious Movements in the Modern Americas
1st Edition
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By Pablo A. Baisotti
September 25, 2023
This volume explores several notable themes related to social, political, and religious movements in Latin America and offers insightful historical perspectives to understand national, regional, and global issues from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day. This volume’s ...
The New Pan-Americanism and the Structuring of Inter-American Relations
1st Edition
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By Juan Pablo Scarfi, David M. K. Sheinin
September 25, 2023
What is Pan-Americanism? People have been struggling with that problem for over a century. Pan-Americanism is (and has been) an amalgam of diplomatic, political, economic, and cultural projects under the umbrella of hemispheric cooperation and housed institutionally in the Pan-American Union, and ...