“Transnational America” is a path-breaking study of the production of middle-class Indian and American citizens in the context of late-twentieth-century neoliberalism. Inderpal Grewal considers how the circulation and travels of …
Over the last decade, studies of the Cold War have mushroomed globally. Unfortunately, work on Latin America has not been well represented in either theoretical or empirical discussions of the …
Two centuries after Cortes and Pizarro seized the Aztec and Inca empires, Spain’s conquest of America remained unfinished. Indians retained control over most of the lands in Spain’s American empire. …
“The Forbidden Lands” concerns a pivotal but unexamined surge in frontier violence that engulfed the eastern forests of eighteenth-century Brazil’s most populous region, Minas Gerais. Focusing on social, cultural, and …
Why does Argentina’s national anthem describe its citizens as sons of the Inca? Why did patriots in nineteenth-century Chile name a battleship after the Aztec emperor Montezuma? Answers to both …
“Cultural agency” refers to a range of creative activities that contribute to society, including pedagogy, research, activism, and the arts. Focusing on the connections between creativity and social change in …
How was frontier expansion rationalized in the Americas during the late nineteenth century? As new states fleshed out expanded national maps, how did they represent their advances? Were there any …
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Neoliberalismo es, generalmente, sinónimo de un tipo de política o modelo económico. En este libro, neoliberalismo se refiere también a la configuración sociocultural que hace posible, y que resulta de, …
Una recopilación de los mejores artículos de Oppenheimer. Los artículos versan sobre los temas de mayor interés respecto al presente y al futuro de América Latina, abarcando un abanico de …
