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New Books in Latin American Studies
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Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
59 mins; April 28, 2020
Margaret Randall, "I Never Left Home: Poet, Feminist, Revolutionary" (Duke UP, 2020)
50 mins; April 24, 2020
A. B. Chastain and T. W. Lorek, "Itineraries of Expertise: Science, Technology, and the Environment in Latin America" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2020)
48 mins; April 23, 2020
Jacob Blanc, "Before the Flood: The Itaipu Dam and the Visibility of Rural Brazil" (Duke UP, 2019)
50 mins; April 22, 2020
Lina Britto, "Marijuana Boom: The Rise and Fall of Colombia's First Drug Paradise" (U California Press, 2020)
68 hours 46 mins; April 15, 2020
Cassia Roth, "A Miscarriage of Justice: Women’s Reproductive Lives and the Law in Early Twentieth-Century Brazil" (Stanford UP, 2020)
72 hours 35 mins; April 10, 2020
Oliver Kaplan, "Resisting War: How Communities Protect Themselves" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
44 mins; April 07, 2020
Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020)
51 mins; March 30, 2020
Tobie Stein, "Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Performing Arts Workforce" (Routledge, 2020)
33 mins; March 26, 2020
Nancy Appelbaum, "Mapping the Country of Regions: The Chorographic Commission of Nineteenth-Century Colombia" (UNC Press, 2016)
59 mins; March 13, 2020
Alex Hidalgo, "Trail of Footprints: A History of Indigenous Maps from Viceregal Mexico" (U Texas Press, 2019)
49 mins; March 04, 2020
Eva van Roekel, "Phenomenal Justice: Violence and Morality in Argentina" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
66 hours 24 mins; February 26, 2020
Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)
42 mins; February 25, 2020
Erika Denise Edwards, "Hiding in Plain Sight: Black Women, the Law, and the Making of a White Argentine Republic" (U Alabama Press, 2020)
69 hours 43 mins; February 21, 2020
Pilar M. Herr, "Contested Nation: The Mapuche, Bandits, and State Formation in 19th-Century Chile" (U New Mexico Press, 2019)
58 mins; February 18, 2020
James N. Green, "Exile Within Exiles: Herbert Daniel Gay Brazilian Revolutionary" (Duke UP, 2018)
62 hours 25 mins; February 18, 2020
MartĂ­n Prechtel, "The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun" (North Atlantic Books, 2005)
71 hours 43 mins; February 12, 2020
Mario T. GarcĂ­a, "Father Luis Olivares, A Biography: Faith Politics and the Origins of the Sanctuary Movement in Los Angeles" (UNC Press, 2018)
68 hours 30 mins; February 11, 2020
Roberto Strongman, "Queering Black Atlantic Religions: Transcorporeality in Candomblé, Santería, and Vodou" (Duke UP, 2019)
44 mins; February 04, 2020
K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020)
36 mins; January 30, 2020
Salvador Salinas, "Land, Liberty, and Water: Morelos After Zapata, 1920-1940" (U Arizona Press, 2018)
43 mins; January 29, 2020
Lindsay Mayka, "Building Participatory Institutions in Latin America: Reform Coalitions and Institutional Change" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
56 mins; January 27, 2020
Benjamin Dangl, "The Five Hundred Year Rebellion: Indigenous Movements and the Decolonization of History in Bolivia" (AK Press, 2019)
53 mins; January 17, 2020
Gonzalo Lamana, "How 'Indians' Think: Colonial Indigenous Intellectuals and the Question of Critical Race Theory" (U Arizona Press, 2019)
48 mins; January 14, 2020
Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier, "Aerial Imagination in Cuba: Stories from Above the Rooftops" (Routledge, 2019)
46 mins; January 09, 2020
Matthew D. O'Hara, "The History of the Future in Colonial Mexico" (Yale UP, 2018)
35 mins; January 06, 2020
C. J. Alvarez, "Border Land, Border Water: A History of Construction on the US-Mexico Divide" (U Texas Press, 2019)
60 hours 38 mins; January 03, 2020
Jorge Canizares-Esguerra, "Nature, Empire, And Nation: Explorations of the History of Science in the Iberian World" (Stanford UP, 2006)
37 mins; January 03, 2020
Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, "Banned: Immigration Enforcement in the Time of Trump" (NYU Press, 2019)
40 mins; December 30, 2019
Benjamin Breen, "The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade" (U Penn Press, 2019)
61 hours 47 mins; December 26, 2019
Lennox Honychurch, "In the Forests of Freedom: The Fighting Maroons of Dominica" (UP Mississippi, 2017)
51 mins; December 12, 2019
Joshua Simon, "The Ideology of the Creole Revolution" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
68 hours 43 mins; December 11, 2019
Luis Martínez-Fernández, "Key to the New World: A History of Early Colonial Cuba" (U Florida Press, 2018)
71 hours 6 mins; December 10, 2019
William D. Lopez, "Separated: Family & Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2019)
25 mins; December 09, 2019
Donna Guy, "Creating Charismatic Bonds in Argentina: Letters to Juan and Eva PerĂłn" (U New Mexico Press, 2016)
56 mins; December 04, 2019
Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)
57 mins; December 03, 2019
Amy Offner, "Sorting Out the Mixed Economy: The Rise and Fall of Welfare and Developmental States in the Americas" (Princeton UP, 2019)
61 hours 30 mins; November 22, 2019
David Wheat, "Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570-1640" (UNC Press, 2016)
61 hours 38 mins; November 18, 2019
Penelope Plaza Azuaje, “Culture as Renewable Oil: How Territory, Bureaucratic Power and Culture Coalesce in the Venezuelan Petrostate" (Routledge, 2018)
35 mins; November 15, 2019
S. Deborah Kang, "The INS on the Line: Making Immigration Law on the US-Mexico Border, 1917-1954" (Oxford UP, 2017)
49 mins; November 11, 2019
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
37 mins; November 03, 2019
Kathleen M. McIntyre, "Protestantism and State Formation in Postrevolutionary Oaxaca" (U New Mexico Press, 2019)
55 mins; October 30, 2019
Gary J. Adler, Jr., "Empathy Beyond US Borders: The Challenges of Transnational Civic Engagement" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
54 mins; October 29, 2019
Christina Jiménez, "Making an Urban Public: Popular Claims to the City in Mexico, 1879-1932" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2019)
50 mins; October 28, 2019
J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers" (West Virginia UP, 2019)
29 mins; October 24, 2019
Julia Young, "Mexican Exodus: Emigrants, Exiles, and Refugees of the Cristero War" (Oxford UP, 2019)
52 mins; October 23, 2019
Lorena Oropeza, "The King of Adobe: Reies LĂłpez Tijerina, Lost Prophet of the Chicano Movement" (UNC Press, 2019)
69 hours 55 mins; October 22, 2019
Elena Albarrán, "Seen and Heard in Mexico: Children and Revolutionary Cultural Nationalism" (U Nebraska Press, 2014)
50 mins; October 16, 2019
Nora Jaffary, "Reproduction and its Discontents in Mexico: Childbirth and Contraception from 1750 to 1905" (UNC Press, 2016)
70 hours 19 mins; September 26, 2019
Tyson Reeder, "Smugglers, Pirates, and Patriots: Free Trade in the Age of Revolution" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
77 hours 40 mins; September 26, 2019
Claudia Leal, "Landscapes of Freedom: Building a Postemancipation Society in the Rainforests of Western Colombia" (U Arizona Press, 2018)
66 hours 39 mins; September 23, 2019
Miroslava Chávez-García, "Migrant Longing: Letter Writing across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands" (UNC Press, 2018)
56 mins; September 17, 2019
Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer, "Wind and Power in the Anthropocene" (Duke UP, 2019)
39 mins; September 10, 2019
Dominic Boyer, "Energopolitics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene" (Duke UP, 2019)
44 mins; September 03, 2019
Bianca Premo, "The Enlightenment on Trial: Ordinary Litigants and Colonialism in the Spanish Empire" (Oxford UP, 2017)
71 hours 36 mins; September 02, 2019
Jesse Cromwell, "The Smugglers’ World: Illicit Trade and Atlantic Communities in Eighteenth-Century Venezuela" (UNC Press, 2018)
52 mins; August 28, 2019
Cymene Howe, "Ecologics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene (Duke UP, 2019)
43 mins; August 27, 2019
Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, "Racial Migrations: New York City and the Revolutionary Politics of the Spanish Caribbean" (Princeton UP, 2019)
89 hours 44 mins; August 27, 2019
Joseph U. Lenti, "Redeeming the Revolution: The State and Organized Labor in Post-Tlatelolco Mexico" (U Nebraska Press, 2017)
52 mins; August 13, 2019
Juan Javier Rivera AndĂ­a, "Non-Humans in Amerindian South America" (Berghahn, 2018)
60 hours 38 mins; August 12, 2019
Jaime Alves, "Anti-Black City: Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil (U Minnesota Press, 2018)
65 hours 30 mins; August 02, 2019
A. Ricardo LĂłpez-Pedreros, "Makers of Democracy: A Transnational History of the Middle Classes in Colombia" (Duke UP, 2019)
39 mins; August 01, 2019
Okezi Otovo, "Progressive Mothers, Better Babies: Race, Public Health, and the State in Brazil, 1850-1945" (U Texas Press, 2016)
73 hours 50 mins; July 30, 2019
Monica Muñoz Martinez, "The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas" (Harvard UP, 2018)
70 hours 1 min; July 29, 2019
Gabriela González, "Redeeming La Raza: Transborder Modernity, Race, Respectability and Rights" (Oxford UP, 2018)
66 hours 43 mins; July 29, 2019
Casey Lurtz, "From the Grounds Up: Building an Export Economy in Southern Mexico" (Stanford UP, 2019)
60 hours 38 mins; July 25, 2019
Jennifer A. Jones, "The Browning of the New South" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
56 mins; July 24, 2019
Andrew Torget, "Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850" (UNC Press, 2015)
53 mins; July 24, 2019
Susan Ellison, "Domesticating Democracy: The Politics of Conflict Resolution in Bolivia" (Duke UP, 2018)
62 hours 20 mins; July 23, 2019
Ricardo Cubas Ramacciotti, "The Politics of Religion and the Rise of Social Catholicism in Peru (1884-1935)" (Brill, 2018)
58 mins; July 23, 2019
Carlos Garrido Castellano, "Beyond Representation in Contemporary Caribbean Art" (Rutgers UP, 2019)
36 mins; July 17, 2019
Chinyere K. Osuji, "Boundaries of Love: Interracial Marriage and the Meaning of Race" (NYU Press, 2019)
55 mins; July 11, 2019
Lina del Castillo, "Crafting a Republic for the World: Scientific, Geographic and Historiographic Inventions of Colombia" (U Nebraska Press, 2018)
65 hours 54 mins; July 09, 2019
Yuko Miki, "Frontiers of Citizenship: A Black and Indigenous History of Postcolonial Brazil" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
67 hours 14 mins; July 05, 2019
Anna Rose Alexander, "City on Fire: Technology, Social Change, and the Hazards of Progress in Mexico City, 1860-1910" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2016)
40 mins; July 03, 2019
Carolina Alonso Bejarano, "Decolonizing Ethnography: Undocumented Immigrants and New Directions in Social Science" (Duke UP, 2019)
60 hours 38 mins; July 01, 2019
Laura R. Barraclough, "Charros: How Mexican Cowboys Are Remapping Race and American Identity" (U California Press, 2019)
70 hours 5 mins; July 01, 2019
Daniel Nemser, "Infrastructures of Race: Concentration and Biopolitics in Colonial Mexico" (U Texas Press, 2017)
63 hours 26 mins; June 28, 2019
P. L. Caballero and A. Acevedo-Rodrigo, "Beyond Alterity: Destabilizing the Indigenous Other in Mexico" (U Arizona Press, 2018)
83 hours 19 mins; June 27, 2019
Nancy Mirabal, "Suspect Freedoms: The Racial and Sexual Politics of Cubanidad in New York, 1823-1957" (NYU Press, 2017)
51 mins; June 27, 2019
Brenda Elsey and Joshua Nadel, "Futbolera: A History of Women and Sports in Latin America" (U Texas Press, 2019)
61 hours 56 mins; June 25, 2019
Paul Ramírez, "Enlightened Immunity: Mexico’s Experiments with Disease Prevention in the Age of Reason" (Stanford UP, 2018)
57 mins; June 24, 2019
Rebecca Janzen, "Liminal Sovereignty: Mennonites and Mormons in Mexican Culture" (SUNY Press, 2018)
54 mins; June 21, 2019
Melanie A. Medeiros, "Marriage, Divorce, and Distress in Northeast Brazil: Black Women’s Perspectives on Love, Respect, and Kinship" (Rutgers UP, 2018)
60 hours 35 mins; June 18, 2019
Katherine M. Marino, "Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement" (UNC Press, 2019)
55 mins; June 14, 2019
Christina Proenza-Coles, "American Founders: How People of African Descent Established Freedom in the New World" (NewSouth Books, 2019)
51 mins; June 11, 2019
Peter Guardino, "The Dead March: A History of the Mexican-American War" (Harvard UP, 2017)
67 hours 49 mins; June 07, 2019
Scott Wallace, "The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon’s Last Uncontacted Tribes" (Broadway Books, 2012)
35 mins; June 03, 2019
Gregg Bocketti, "The Invention of the Beautiful Game: Football and the Making of Modern Brazil" (UP of Florida, 2016)
65 hours 11 mins; May 31, 2019
Sandra Mendiola GarcĂ­a, "Street Democracy: Vendors, Violence, and Public Space in Late Twentieth-Century Mexico" (U Nebraska Press, 2017)
55 mins; May 23, 2019
Kris Lane, "Potosí: The Silver City That Changed the World" (U California Press, 2019)
61 hours 9 mins; May 20, 2019
Marixa Lasso, "Erased: The Untold Story of the Panama Canal" (Harvard UP, 2019)
36 mins; May 20, 2019
Jessica A. J. Rich, "State-Sponsored Activism: Bureaucrats and Social Movements in Democratic Brazil" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
52 mins; May 03, 2019
Melissa Johnson, "Becoming Creole: Nature and Race in Belize" (Rutgers UP, 2018)
47 mins; April 26, 2019
Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Open Access Publishing
32 mins; March 19, 2019
Alfredo Toro Hardy, "The Crossroads of Globalization. A Latin American View" (World Scientific Publishing. 2019)
77 hours 1 min; February 21, 2019
Jessica Trisko Darden, Alexis Henshaw, and Ora Szekley, "Insurgent Women: Female Combatants in Civil Wars" (Georgetown UP, 2019)
54 mins; February 11, 2019
Zeb Tortorici, "Sins Against Nature: Sex and Archives in Colonial New Spain" (Duke UP, 2018)
62 hours 31 mins; February 01, 2019
Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie Harris, "Sexuality and Slavery: Reclaiming Intimate Histories in the Americas" (U Georgia Press, 2018)
59 mins; January 24, 2019
Alexander S. Dawson, "The Peyote Effect: From the Inquisition to the War on Drugs" (U California Press, 2018)
59 mins; January 17, 2019
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