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Emily Conroy-Krutz, "Missionary Diplomacy: Religion and Nineteenth-Century American Foreign Relations" (Cornell UP, 2024)

49 mins; March 24, 2024

Alke Jenss, "Selective Security in the War on Drugs: The Coloniality of State Power in Colombia and Mexico" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)

43 mins; March 18, 2024

Daniel Feierstein, "Memories and Representations of Terror: Working Through Genocide" (Routledge, 2024)

49 mins; March 16, 2024

Andrew J. Kirkendall, "Hemispheric Alliances: Liberal Democrats and Cold War Latin America" (UNC Press, 2022)

104 hours 4 mins; March 16, 2024

Yolanda Ariadne Collins, "Forests of Refuge: Decolonizing Environmental Governance in the Amazonian Guiana Shield" (U California Press, 2024)

42 mins; March 12, 2024

Laura Huttunen and Gerhild Perl, "An Anthropology of Disappearance: Politics, Intimacies and Alternative Ways of Knowing" (Berghahn Books, 2023)

67 hours 58 mins; March 10, 2024

Diego Javier Luis, "The First Asians in the Americas: A Transpacific History" (Harvard UP, 2024)

52 mins; March 05, 2024

Eline van Ommen, "Nicaragua Must Survive: Sandinista Revolutionary Diplomacy in the Global Cold War" (U California Press, 2024)

53 mins; March 02, 2024

Maxine Lowy, "Latent Memory: Human Rights and Jewish Identity in Chile" (U Wisconsin Press, 2022)

114 hours 41 mins; February 27, 2024

Ariel Mae Lambe, "No Barrier Can Contain It: Cuban Antifascism and the Spanish Civil War" (UNC Press, 2019)

70 hours 4 mins; February 25, 2024

Calla Hummel, "Why Informal Workers Organize: Contentious Politics, Enforcement, and the State" (Oxford UP, 2022)

53 mins; February 25, 2024

Raanan Rein, "Populism and Ethnicity: Peronism and the Jews of Argentina" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2020)

75 hours 49 mins; February 23, 2024

Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra, "The Dictator Novel: Writers and Politics in the Global South" (Northwestern UP, 2019)

75 hours 20 mins; February 18, 2024

Pablo Alonso González, "Cuban Cultural Heritage: A Rebel Past for a Revolutionary Nation" (UP of Florida, 2018)

51 mins; February 16, 2024

Diego Javier Luis, "The First Asians in the Americas: A Transpacific History" (Harvard UP, 2024)

57 mins; February 15, 2024

Marisol LeBrón, "Policing Life and Death: Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico" (U California Press, 2019)

65 hours 41 mins; February 14, 2024

Bryce Henson, "Emergent Quilombos: Black Life and Hip-Hop in Brazil" (U Texas Press, 2023)

71 hours 46 mins; February 07, 2024

Rachel Nolan, "Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala" (Harvard UP, 2024)

42 mins; January 28, 2024

Suzanne Oakdale, "Amazonian Cosmopolitans: Navigating a Shamanic Cosmos, Shifting Indigenous Policies, and Other Modern Projects" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)

54 mins; January 28, 2024

Marcia Stephenson, "Llamas beyond the Andes: Untold Histories of Camelids in the Modern World" (U Texas Press, 2023)

56 mins; January 27, 2024

Chelsea Schields, "Offshore Attachments: Oil and Intimacy in the Caribbean" (U California Press, 2023)

56 mins; January 21, 2024

Gustav Cederlof, "The Low-Carbon Contradiction: Energy Transition, Geopolitics, and the Infrastructural State in Cuba" (U California Press, 2023)

48 mins; January 15, 2024

Patricio Simonetto, "A Body of One's Own: A Trans History of Argentina" (U Texas Press, 2024)

54 mins; January 15, 2024

Eva van Roekel, "Phenomenal Justice: Violence and Morality in Argentina" (Rutgers UP, 2020)

66 hours 24 mins; January 11, 2024

Sandro R. Barros et al., "The Dissidence of Reinaldo Arenas: Queering Literature, Politics, and the Activist Curriculum" (U Florida Press, 2022)

61 hours 35 mins; January 09, 2024

Marcy Norton, "The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492" (Harvard UP, 2024)

60 hours 38 mins; January 04, 2024

Katherine M. Marino, "Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement" (UNC Press, 2019)

55 mins; January 03, 2024

Max Deardorff, "A Tale of Two Granadas: Custom, Community, and Citizenship in the Spanish Empire, 1568–1668" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

98 hours 20 mins; January 02, 2024

Laura Briggs, "Taking Children: A History of American Terror" (U California Press, 2020)

75 hours 31 mins; December 31, 2023

Sarah Sarzynski, "Revolution in the Terra Do Sol: The Cold War in Brazil" (Stanford UP, 2018)

82 hours 56 mins; December 30, 2023

Elena Schneider, "The Occupation of Havana: War, Trade and Slavery in the Atlantic World" (UNC Press, 2018)

50 mins; December 27, 2023

Marixa Lasso, "Erased: The Untold Story of the Panama Canal" (Harvard UP, 2019)

36 mins; December 26, 2023

Matt Garcia, "Eli and the Octopus: The CEO Who Tried to Reform One of the World’s Most Notorious Corporations" (Harvard UP, 2023)

54 mins; December 25, 2023

Nessette Falu, "Unseen Flesh: Gynecology and Black Queer Worth-Making in Brazil" (Duke UP, 2023)

58 mins; December 24, 2023

Trent Masiki, "The Afro-Latino Memoir: Race, Ethnicity, and Literary Interculturalism" (UNC Press, 2023)

35 mins; December 21, 2023

António Costa Pinto, "An Authoritarian Third Way in the Era of Fascism: Diffusion, Models and Interactions in Europe and Latin America" (Routledge, 2021)

93 hours 18 mins; December 19, 2023

Hugo Wong, "America's Lost Chinese: The Rise and Fall of a Migrant Family Dream" (Oxford UP, 2023)

44 mins; December 14, 2023

David Carey, Jr., "Health in the Highlands: Indigenous Healing and Scientific Medicine in Guatemala and Ecuador" (U California Press, 2023)

46 mins; December 13, 2023

Genealogies of Modernity Episode 6: A Medieval Anti-Racist

52 mins; December 10, 2023

Genealogies of Modernity Episode 5: Picturing Race in Colonial Mexico

60 hours 5 mins; December 09, 2023

Beatriz Nascimento, "The Dialectic Is in the Sea: The Black Radical Thought of Beatriz Nascimento" (Princeton UP, 2023)

48 mins; November 14, 2023

Alan R. Sandstrom and Pamela E. Sandstrom, "Pilgrimage to Broken Mountain: Nahua Sacred Journeys in Mexico's Huasteca Veracruzana" (UP of Colorado, 2023)

63 hours 16 mins; November 08, 2023

Graham Denyer Willis, "Keep the Bones Alive: Missing People and the Search for Life in Brazil" (U California Press, 2022)

99 hours 6 mins; November 03, 2023

Sharony Green, "The Chase and Ruins: Zora Neale Hurston in Honduras" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)

70 hours 57 mins; November 01, 2023

Robert C. Bradley, "Eating Peru: A Gastronomic Journey" (U Oklahoma Press, 2023)

65 hours 17 mins; October 28, 2023

Marisel C. Moreno, "Crossing Waters: Undocumented Migration in Hispanophone Caribbean and Latinx Literature and Art" (U Texas Press, 2022)

75 hours 37 mins; October 27, 2023

Lucy Swanson, "The Zombie in Contemporary French Caribbean Fiction" (Liverpool UP, 2023)

49 mins; October 25, 2023

Paul Clammer, "Black Crown: Henry Christophe, the Haitian Revolution and the Caribbean's Forgotten Kingdom" (Hurst, 2023)

52 mins; October 18, 2023

Katherine Jensen, "The Color of Asylum: The Racial Politics of Safe Haven in Brazil" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

47 mins; October 18, 2023

Carmen Haydée Rivera and Jorge Duany, "Cuba and Puerto Rico: Transdisciplinary Approaches to History, Literature, and Culture" (U Florida Press, 2023)

40 mins; October 15, 2023

John D. Garrigus, "A Secret Among the Blacks: Slave Resistance Before the Haitian Revolution" (Harvard UP, 2023)

56 mins; October 15, 2023

James J. A. Blair, "Salvaging Empire: Sovereignty, Natural Resources, and Environmental Science in the South Atlantic" (Cornell UP, 2023)

43 mins; October 13, 2023

Lisandro Pérez, "The House on G Street: A Cuban Family Saga" (NYU Press, 2023)

59 mins; October 13, 2023

Evan C. Rothera, "Civil Wars and Reconstructions in the Americas: The United States, Mexico, and Argentina, 1860–1880" (LSU Press, 2022)

84 hours 27 mins; October 10, 2023

Angie Lederach, "Feel the Grass Grow: Ecologies of Slow Peace in Colombia" (Stanford UP, 2023)

77 hours 48 mins; October 06, 2023

Daniel R. Reichman, "Progress in the Balance: Mythologies of Development in Santos, Brazil" (Cornell UP, 2023)

45 mins; September 30, 2023

Alba Griffin, "Reading the Walls of Bogota: Graffiti, Street Art, and the Urban Imaginary of Violence" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2023)

76 hours 44 mins; September 22, 2023

Kevin Funk, "Rooted Globalism: Arab–Latin American Business Elites and the Politics of Global Imaginaries" (Indiana UP, 2022)

55 mins; September 20, 2023

Moisés Kopper, "Architectures of Hope: Infrastructural Citizenship and Class Mobility in Brazil's Public Housing" (U Michigan Press, 2022)

50 mins; September 19, 2023

Oscar Webber, "Negotiating Relief and Freedom: Responses to Disaster in the British Caribbean, 1812-1907" (Manchester UP, 2023)

61 hours 12 mins; September 17, 2023

Edgar Garcia, "Emergency: Reading the Popol Vuh in a Time of Crisis" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

71 hours 37 mins; September 16, 2023

Debbie Sharnak, "Of Light and Struggle: Social Justice, Human Rights, and Accountability in Uruguay" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)

76 hours 7 mins; September 15, 2023

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32 mins; September 12, 2023

Kathleen M. Osberger, "I Surrender: A Memoir of Chile's Dictatorship, 1975" (Oribis Books, 2023)

18 mins; September 05, 2023

Yanna Yannakakis, "Since Time Immemorial: Native Custom and Law in Colonial Mexico" (Duke UP, 2023)

62 hours 12 mins; September 04, 2023

Bryan Pitts, "Until the Storm Passes: Politicians, Democracy, and the Demise of Brazil's Military Dictatorship" (U California Press, 2023)

70 hours 9 mins; September 03, 2023

Romina Yalonetzky, "Gente Como Uno: Class, Belonging, and Transnationalism in Jewish Life in Lima" (Academic Studies Press, 2021)

108 hours 3 mins; September 02, 2023

Jaime M. Pensado, "Love and Despair: How Catholic Activism Shaped Politics and the Counterculture in Modern Mexico" (U California Press, 2023)

57 mins; September 01, 2023

Jonathan Ablard, "Madness in Buenos Aires: Patients, Psychiatrists, and the Argentine State, 1880-1983" (Ohio UP, 2008)

28 mins; August 31, 2023

James S. Damico et al., "Commemorative Literacies and Labors of Justice: Resistance, Reconciliation, and Recovery in Buenos Aires and Beyond" (Routledge, 2021)

67 hours 0 mins; August 30, 2023

Ana Lucia Araujo, "Museums and Atlantic Slavery" (Routledge, 2021)

55 mins; August 29, 2023

Christina Heatherton, "Arise!: Global Radicalism in the Era of the Mexican Revolution" (U California Press, 2022)

61 hours 38 mins; August 25, 2023

Jennifer Cearns, "Circulating Culture: Transnational Cuban Networks of Exchange" (UP of Florida, 2023)

58 mins; August 20, 2023

Andrew Johnson, "If I Give My Soul: Faith Behind Bars in Rio de Janeiro" (Oxford UP, 2017)

48 mins; August 16, 2023

Sarah Muir, "Routine Crisis: An Ethnography of Disillusion" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

45 mins; August 11, 2023

Cindy McCulligh, "Sewer of Progress: Corporations, Institutionalized Corruption, and the Struggle for the Santiago River" (MIT Press, 2023)

62 hours 43 mins; August 06, 2023

Christine Keiner, "Deep Cut: Science, Power, and the Unbuilt Interoceanic Canal" (U Georgia Press, 2020)

31 mins; August 05, 2023

Borges and Memory: Encounters with the Human Brain

14 mins; August 03, 2023

Gilbert M. Joseph and Timothy J. Henderson, "The Mexico Reader: History, Culture, Politics" (Duke UP, 2022)

40 mins; August 02, 2023

Margaret M. Power, "Solidarity Across the Americas: The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and Anti-Imperialism" (UNC Press, 2023)

55 mins; July 29, 2023

Irina Carlota Silber, "After Stories: Transnational Intimacies of Postwar El Salvador" (Stanford UP, 2022)

61 hours 37 mins; July 29, 2023

Sarah E. Vaughn, "Engineering Vulnerability: In Pursuit of Climate Adaptation" (Duke UP, 2022)

61 hours 30 mins; July 29, 2023

Eric Van Young, "Stormy Passage: Mexico from Colony to Republic, 1750-1850" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)

89 hours 48 mins; July 27, 2023

Anthony Russell Jerry, "Blackness in Mexico: Afro-Mexican Recognition and the Production of Citizenship in the Costa Chica" (UP of Florida, 2023)

47 mins; July 26, 2023

Stefan Rinke, "Conquistadors and Aztecs: A History of the Fall of Tenochtitlan" (Oxford UP, 2023)

63 hours 15 mins; July 22, 2023

Vivian Nun Halloran, "Caribbean American Narratives of Belonging" (Ohio State UP, 2023)

80 hours 7 mins; July 16, 2023

Jessica P. Cerdeña, "Pressing Onward: The Imperative Resilience of Latina Migrant Mothers" (U California Press, 2023)

58 mins; July 10, 2023

Linda J. Seligmann, "Quinoa: Food Politics and Agrarian Life in the Andean Highlands" (U Illinois Press, 2022)

44 mins; July 08, 2023

David Tavárez, "Rethinking Zapotec Time: Cosmology, Ritual, and Resistance in Colonial Mexico" (U Texas Press, 2022)

76 hours 18 mins; July 05, 2023

Andrew Snyder, "Critical Brass: Street Carnival and Musical Activism in Olympic Rio de Janeiro" (Wesleyan UP, 2022)

58 mins; June 09, 2023

Gladys L. Mitchell-Walthour, "The Politics of Survival: Black Women Social Welfare Beneficiaries in Brazil and the United States" (Columbia UP, 2023)

90 hours 34 mins; June 04, 2023

Adrian Masters, "We, the King: Creating Royal Legislation in the Sixteenth-Century Spanish New World" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

69 hours 38 mins; June 03, 2023

César Ernesto Abadía-Barrero, "Health in Ruins: The Capitalist Destruction of Medical Care at a Colombian Maternity Hospital" (Duke UP, 2022)

72 hours 54 mins; June 03, 2023

Elizabeth Reddy, "¡Alerta!: Engineering on Shaky Ground" (MIT Press, 2023)

52 mins; June 02, 2023

Rebeca L. Hey-Colón, "Channeling Knowledges: Water and Afro-Diasporic Spirits in Latinx and Caribbean Worlds" (U Texas Press, 2023)

38 mins; May 30, 2023

Learning for Liberation: The Life and Legacy of Paulo Freire

65 hours 30 mins; May 29, 2023

Samantha Nogueira Joyce, "Afro-Brazilians in Telenovelas: Social, Political, and Economic Realities" (Lexington Books, 2022)

76 hours 5 mins; May 22, 2023

Ailton Krenak, "Life Is Not Useful" (Polity Press, 2023)

53 mins; May 17, 2023

Aarie Glas, "Practicing Peace: Conflict Management in Southeast Asia and South America" (Oxford UP, 2022)

61 hours 19 mins; May 15, 2023

Daniel Ruiz-Serna, "When Forests Run Amok: War and Its Afterlives in Indigenous and Afro-Colombian Territories" (Duke UP, 2023)

75 hours 23 mins; May 13, 2023

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