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David Wheat, “Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570-1640” (UNC Press, 2016)
David Wheat
Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570-1640

University of North Carolina Press, 2016

New Books in African American StudiesNew Books in African StudiesNew Books in Caribbean StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network November 18, 2019 Lisette Varón Carvajal

David Wheat’s fantastic book Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570-1640 (University of North Carolina Press, 2016) argues that the extensive participation of Luso-Africans, Latinized Africans, and free people of color made possible Spain’s colonization of the Caribbean. For Wheat, the history of the region is entangled with older and deeper... Read More
Penelope Plaza Azuaje, “Culture as Renewable Oil: How Territory, Bureaucratic Power and Culture Coalesce in the Venezuelan Petrostate” (Routledge, 2018)
Penelope Plaza Azuaje
Culture as Renewable Oil
How Territory, Bureaucratic Power and Culture Coalesce in the Venezuelan Petrostate
Routledge, 2018

New Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in Environmental StudiesNew Books in GeographyNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books Network November 15, 2019 Dave O'Brien

How do states use cultural policy? In Culture as Renewable Oil: How Territory, Bureaucratic Power and Culture Coalesce in the Venezuelan Petrostate (Routledge, 2018), Penelope Plaza Azuaje, a lecturer in architecture at the University of Reading explores the case study of Venezuela to think through the relationship between states, territory,... Read More
S. Deborah Kang, “The INS on the Line: Making Immigration Law on the US-Mexico Border, 1917-1954” (Oxford UP, 2017)
S. Deborah Kang
The INS on the Line
Making Immigration Law on the US-Mexico Border, 1917-1954
Oxford University Press, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Latino StudiesNew Books in LawNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network November 11, 2019 Derek Litvak

Today I talked to S. Deborah Kang about her book The INS on the Line: Making Immigration Law on the US-Mexico Border, 1917-1954, published by Oxford University Press in 2017. The INS on the Line explores the history behind Immigration and Naturalization Service throughout the 20th Century, interrogating how this... Read More
Kathleen M. McIntyre, “Protestantism and State Formation in Postrevolutionary Oaxaca” (U New Mexico Press, 2019)
Kathleen M. McIntyre
Protestantism and State Formation in Postrevolutionary Oaxaca

University of New Mexico Press, 2019

New Books in Christian StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Native American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network October 30, 2019 Julian Dodson

Dr. Kathleen M. McIntyre’s Protestantism and State Formation in Postrevolutionary Oaxaca (University of New Mexico Press, 2019) explores the impact of Protestantism on Catholic indigenous communities in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca in the period directly following the Mexican Revolution 1910-1920. Dr. McIntyre’s work illustrates that conversion to Protestantism,... Read More
Gary J. Adler, Jr., “Empathy Beyond US Borders: The Challenges of Transnational Civic Engagement” (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Gary J. Adler, Jr.
Empathy Beyond US Borders
The Challenges of Transnational Civic Engagement
Cambridge University Press, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Latino StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network October 29, 2019 Sarah E. Patterson

Do immersion trips really transform those who participate and how so? In his new book Empathy Beyond US Borders: The Challenges of Transnational Civic Engagement (Cambridge University Press, 2019), Gary J. Adler, Jr. explores this question and more. Using mixed methods, including surveys, interviews, and ethnography, Adler investigates how an... Read More
Christina Jiménez, “Making an Urban Public: Popular Claims to the City in Mexico, 1879-1932” (U Pittsburgh Press, 2019)
Christina Jiménez
Making an Urban Public
Popular Claims to the City in Mexico, 1879-1932
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019

New Books in HistoryNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network October 28, 2019 Rachel Grace Newman

Making an Urban Public: Popular Claims to the City in Mexico, 1879-1932 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019) by Christina Jiménez is a social history of the city of Morelia, located in Western Mexico in the state of Michoacán. Set in an era of political and economic change in Mexico, this... Read More
Julia G. Young, “Mexican Exodus: Emigrants, Exiles, and Refugees of the Cristero War” (Oxford UP, 2019)
Julia G. Young
Mexican Exodus
Emigrants, Exiles, and Refugees of the Cristero War
Oxford University Press, 2015

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Latino StudiesNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network October 23, 2019 Ethan Fredrick

In Mexican Exodus: Emigrants, Exiles, and Refugees of the Cristero War (Oxford University Press, 2019), Julia G. Young reframes the Cristero War as a transnational conflict, using previously unexamined archival materials from both Mexico and the United States to investigate the intersections between Mexico’s Cristero War and Mexican migration to... Read More
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