An updated history of independence reminds us how Latin American states are still battling to be rid of imperialism
Categories: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Caribbean, Central America, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Europe, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, International, Mexico, Nicaragua, North America, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, South America, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela
A groundbreaking study into the economics of imperialism reveals the domestic forces driving US policy abroad
Categories: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Caribbean, Central America, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, North America, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, South America, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela
A stimulating – and tasty – reflection on the relationship between Puerto Rico’s national cuisine and global trends
Categories: Caribbean, Puerto Rico
Gad Heuman’s updated historical synthesis of the Caribbean combines literary with analytical verve that makes for a compelling narrative
Categories: Caribbean, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, North America, Puerto Rico, United States
Latin Americans become the subjects and the US becomes the object in a snapshot of the North taken from the South
Categories: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Caribbean, Central America, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, North America, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, South America, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela
There is no shortage of indigenous scientific genius in Latin America, but the state’s stranglehold over higher education has led to a comprehensive ‘academic dependence’ on US and European scholarship
Categories: Argentina, Brazil, Caribbean, Central America, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, North America, Panama, Puerto Rico, South America, United States
Carlos Alvarado’s novel Las Posesiones throws light on Costa Rica’s internment of ethnic Germans during the second world war at the behest of the US
Categories: Caribbean, Central America, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, South America
Ordinary Lives in the Early Caribbean: Religion, Colonial Competition, and the Politics of Profit, Kristen Block, 2012, University of Georgia Press
Categories: Caribbean, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Puerto Rico
Latin America in the 21st Century: Nations, Regionalism, Globalization, Gian Luca Gardini, 2012, Zed Books
Categories: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Caribbean, Central America, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, North America, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, South America, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela
John Beverley considers how subaltern studies and the very concept of Latin America itself might respond to a rapidly shifting intellectual and political landscape
Categories: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Caribbean, Central America, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, North America, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, South America, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela
