Bøger i Dialogos Series serien

Famous for its majestic ruins, Mexico has gone to great lengths to preserve and display the remains of its pre-Hispanic past. The Pursuit of Ruins argues that the government effort to take control of the ancient remains took off in the late nineteenth century during the dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz.

Unlike most books on slavery in the Americas, this social history of Africans and their enslaved descendants in colonial Costa Rica recounts the journey of specific people from West Africa to the New World.

The 1946 Mexican presidential election signaled the ascent of a new generation of cosmopolitan civilian government officials, led by the magnetic lawyer Miguel Aleman. Sons of the Mexican Revolution traces the socialization of this ruling generation's members, from their earliest education through their rise to national prominence.

Crime has played a complicated role in the history of human social relations. This volume focuses on Mexico's social and cultural history through the lens of celebrated cases of social deviance from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Each essay centers on a different crime story and explores the documentary record of each case.

A collection of essays that addresses issues including contested historiography, social and economic contributions of Afro-Mexicans, social construction of race and ethnic identity, forms of agency and resistance, and contemporary inquiry into ethnographic work on Afro-Mexican communities.

Focusing on the time period from the intensification of slave importation in 1580 to 1700, this work explores how Afro-Mexicans worked within the limitations imposed on them by the Church and the Spanish Crown in order to develop relationships with peers and superiors, defend themselves against unjust treatment, make money, and gain prestige.

Brings together scholars from across disciplines to offer an interdisciplinary examination of Argentina's Conquest of the Desert (1878-1885) and its legacies. The collection explores issues of settler colonialism, Indigenous-state relations, genocide, borderlands, and Indigenous cultures and land rights.

HIghlights the importance of transatlantic and intra-American slave trafficking in the development of colonial Spanish America, highlighting the Spanish colonies' previously underestimated significance within the broader history of the slave trade.

Describes the lives of native leaders whose resilience and creativity allowed them to survive and prosper in the traumatic era of European conquest and colonial rule. In a comparative study that spans more than three centuries, McEnroe challenges common assumptions about the relationships among victors, vanquished, and their shared progeny.

HIghlights the importance of transatlantic and intra-American slave trafficking in the development of colonial Spanish America, highlighting the Spanish colonies' previously underestimated significance within the broader history of the slave trade.

This captivating study tells Mexico's best untold stories. The book takes the devastating 1833 cholera epidemic as its dramatic centre and expands beyond this episode to explore love, lust, lies, and midwives.

Basing the study of colonial Mexican masculinity on the experiences of mainstream men, Lipsett-Rivera traces the genesis of the Mexican macho by looking at daily interactions between Mexican men in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In doing so she establishes an important foundation for gender studies in Mexico and Latin America.

Offers a new vision of the political violence and social conflicts that led to the fall of silver capitalism and Mexican independence in 1821. People demanding rights faced military defenders of power and privilege - the legacy of 1808 that shaped Mexican history.

Explores the links between politics and literacy, and about how radical ideas spread in a world without printing presses. This book offers an in-depth analysis of one of the crucial processes that allowed Venezuela to become one of the first regions in Spanish America to declare independence from Iberia and turn into an influential force for South American independence.

Tells the remarkable story of a group of nuns who travelled halfway around the globe in the seventeenth century to establish the first female Franciscan convent in the Far East. Drawing from a manuscript from one of the nuns, other archival sources, and rare books, this study offers a fascinating view of travel, evangelization, and empire.

During the summer of 1792, a man wearing the rough garb of a vaquero stepped out of the night shadows of Merida, Yucatan, and murdered the province's top royal official, don Lucas de Galvez. This book recounts the mystery of the Galvez murder and its resolution, an event that captured contemporaries' imaginations throughout the Hispanic world.

In this synthesis, Wasserman shows the link between ordinary Mexican men and women from Independence to the Revolution, combining explanations of social history, political and economic change, and gender relations.

In this expansive and engaging narrative William Acree guides readers through the deep history of popular entertainment before turning to circus culture and rural dramas that celebrated the countryside on stage.

In collecting hundreds of letters to Juan and Eva by everyday people as well as from correspondence solicited by Juan Peron, this book promotes a view that charismatic bonds in Argentina have been formed as much by Argentines as by their leaders, demonstrating how letter writing at that time instilled a sense of nationalism and unity, particularly during the first Five Year Plan campaign.

Between 1778 and 1784 the Spanish Crown transported more than 1,900 peasants, including 875 women and girls, from northern Spain to South America in an ill-fated scheme to colonize Patagonia. Gendered Crossings brings to life the diverse settings of the Iberian Atlantic and the transformations in the peasants' gendered experiences as they moved around the Spanish Empire.

In 1837 Mariquita Sanchez de Mendeville was so fed up with governor Juan Manuel de Rosas that she chose to leave her beloved city of Buenos Aires. Juan Manuel de Rosas's version of order alienated Mariquita, who chose self-imposed exile. Their lives provide an overarching narrative for Argentine history for both scholars and students.

Divided into 4 parts, this book examines the cause of the demise of the slave trade to Bahia (a province of Brazil) by 1851. It traces Bahia's abolitionist movement through the enactment of the Law of the Free Womb in 1871, and focuses on the role of Candomble, an African religion practiced by the Africans of Brazil, in ending slavery in the area.

The effects of floods, droughts, hurricanes, and earthquakes and tsunamis have destroyed people's lives and their built environments, and changed land forms, such as mountains, rivers, forests, and canyons. This collection of essays focuses on earthquakes in Latin America since the mid-nineteenth century.

A collection of essays that places Jewish-Latin Americans within the context of Latin American and ethnic studies. It emphasizes human actors and accounts of lived experiences.

Shows that although plantation slavery was a horrible reality for many Africans and their descendants in Latin America, blacks experienced many other realities in Iberian colonies. This work analyses a treatise by a seventeenth-century Muslim scholar in Morocco and argues it shaped the slave trade to Latin America.

An imbalance of power and a sense of unresolved tension have plagued relations between the United States and Latin America. This book offers a synthesis of that relationship by studying how actions and policies of the United States have been interpreted and played out in Latin America.

Takes you on a journey into the world of children and childhood in early modern Ibero-America. This book challenges the conventional notion that children are invisible in the historical record. It contains essays that present their small subjects - elite maidens, abandoned babies, Indian servants, slave apprentices - through their lives and times.

Boyer lets these Mexican people speak for themselves about how they got into trouble with the Inquisition.

In overturning Spain's control of the Americas, such great military leaders as Simon Bolivar and Jose de San Martin unleashed both civil wars and revolutions between 1810 and 1824. Sixteen nations emerged from these violent and cataclysmic wars.