In The Color of Modernity, Barbara Weinstein focuses on race, gender, and regionalism in
the formation of national identities in Brazil; this focus allows her to explore how uneven …

This book is an original exploration into the history of material culture and consumption in
Latin America over the past 500 years with special attention to the categories of food …

The dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo, who ruled the Dominican Republic from 1930 until his
assassination in 1961, was one of the longest and bloodiest in Latin American history. The …

Chile was the first major Latin American nation to carry out a complete neoliberal
transformation. Its policies—encouraging foreign investment, privatizing public sector …

Recent research on food history has challenged the Cartesian mind-body dualism, revealing
important connections between the material-sensory properties of foods and the mental …

Este ensaio examina a emergência da “virada transnacional” dentro da profissão de
historiador a partir dos anos 1990. Defendo que os historiadores da América Latina …

1. On the mobilizations of the early 2000s see especially Gutiérrez Aguilar, Los ritmos del
Pachakuti; Hylton and Thomson, Revolutionary Horizons, 101–126; Mamani Ramírez …

This essay argues that bringing animals into the study of Latin American and Caribbean
environmental history could serve several purposes. It would forge a point of entry into the …

This paper offers some perspectives concerning the centrality of food for the way Dominican
immigrants in New York City negotiate the micro-politics of place and community. It …

What is' authoritarian rule'and is it best studied? Using the Dominican Republic, this book
investigates new methods of analysis, arguing that it should be imperative to approach …