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Latin American Studies
November 21, 2024
Without Parents or Papers
Today’s book is: Sin Padres, Ni Papeles: Unaccompanied Migrant Youth Coming of Age in the United States (U California Press, 2024), which explores how…
November 11, 2024
Good Victims
In the latest edition of Ethnographic Marginalia, we talk with Roxani Krystalli about her new book Good Victims: The Political as a Feminist Question …
November 10, 2024
An Unholy Rebellion, Killing the Gods
An Unholy Rebellion, Killing the Gods: Political Ideology and Insurrection in the Mayan Popul Vuh and the Andean Huarochiri Manuscript (University of …
November 5, 2024
A Third Path
Following the Great Depression, as the world searched for new economic models, Brazil and Portugal experimented with corporatism as a “third path” bet…
October 29, 2024
The Neomercantilists
At a time when critiques of free trade policies are gaining currency, The Neomercantilists: A Global Intellectual History (Cornell UP, 2021) helps mak…
October 28, 2024
Cattle in the Postcolumbian Americas
In Cattle in the Postcolumbian Americas: A Zooarchaeological Historical Study (University Press of Florida, 2024), Nicolas Delsol compares zooarchaeol…
October 17, 2024
Reunited: Family Separation and Central American Youth Migration
Today’s book is: Reunited: Family Separation and Central American Youth Migration (Russell Sage Foundation, 2024), by Dr. Ernesto Castañeda and Daniel…
October 15, 2024
Riding with the Revolution
Dan La Botz's book Riding with the Revolution: The American Left in the Mexican Revolution, 1900-1925 (Brill, 2024) tells the story of Americans who f…
October 7, 2024
The Capital Market of Manila and the Pacific Trade, 1668-1838
Economic history has always emphasized the importance of long-distance trade in the emergence of modern financial markets, yet almost nothing is known…
October 6, 2024
Transnational Communicative Care
How do families care for each when they are divided over generations by powerful geopolitical forces beyond their control? In this episode, Hanna Tors…
September 30, 2024
The Holocaust and New World Slavery
The Holocaust and New World Slavery: A Comparative History (Cambridge UP, 2019) offers the first, in-depth comparison of the Holocaust and new world s…
September 29, 2024
Holocaust Consciousness and Cold War Violence in Latin America
Holocaust Consciousness and Cold War Violence in Latin America (SUNY Press, 2022) proposes the existence of a recognizably distinct Holocaust consciou…
September 26, 2024
A New Antiquity
We tend to think of sixteenth-century European artistic theory as separate from the artworks displayed in the non-European sections of museums. In A N…
September 22, 2024
Repertoires of Terrorism
Why do armed groups employ terrorism in markedly different ways during civil wars? Drawing on more than a decade of fieldwork, Dr. Andreas E. Feldmann…
September 21, 2024
More Auspicious Shores
Caree A. Banton's book More Auspicious Shores: Barbadian Migration to Liberia, Blackness, and the Making of an African Republic (Cambridge UP, 2019) c…
September 19, 2024
Immigration Realities: Challenging Common Misperceptions
Today’s book is: Immigration Realities: Challenging Common Misperceptions (Columbia UP, 2024), by Ernesto Castaneda and Carina Cione, which is a pract…
September 17, 2024
Reckoning with Change in Yucatán
A perpetual tension exists between history and change, which is an issue long explored by historians and social scientists. Reckoning with Change in Y…
September 17, 2024
Populista
Today I talked to Will Grant about his book Populista: The Rise of Latin America's 21st Century Strongman (Bloomsbury, 2021). or more than six decade…
September 14, 2024
Entwined Homelands, Empowered Diasporas
Dr. Aviad Moreno is himself an incarnation of entwined homelands. He is an Israeli whose grandfather moved from Morocco to Venezuela, sent his son bac…
September 13, 2024
The Subject of Revolution
From television to travel bans, geopolitics to popular dance, The Subject of Revolution: Between Political and Popular Culture in Cuba (UNC Press, 202…