Urban exiles flocking to Brazil’s hinterland are seeking freedom. Return from the World: Economic Growth and Reverse Migration in Brazil, Gregory Duff Morton
Categories: Brazil, South America
Tag: Economic history
Argentina’s blind spot
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If nations had psychotherapists, Argentina would be visiting weekly. A History of Argentina: From the Spanish Conquest to the Present, Ezequiel Adamovsky, translated by Rebecca Wolpin, 2024, Duke University Press
Categories: Argentina, South America
Trigger unhappy
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Is the narrative about cartel bloodshed in Mexico finally changing? Exit Wounds: How America’s Guns Fuel Violence across the Border, Ieva Jusionyte, 2024, University of California Press
Categories: Caribbean, Haiti, Mexico, North America, United States
Fashion victims
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Regions such as Patagonia have been transformed by the commodification of animals. Creatures of Fashion: Animals, Global Markets, and the Transformation of Patagonia, John Soluri, 2024, University of North Carolina Press
Categories: Argentina, South America
Camelid colonialism
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A stuffed llama can tell a powerful story about imperial duplicity. Llamas beyond the Andes: Untold Histories of Camelids in the Modern World, Marcia Stephenson, 2023, University of Texas Press
Categories: Argentina, Bolivia, North America, Peru, South America, United States
Paradise found
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An Australian exile’s adventures in Colombia are a perfect cure for the malady of stereotypes. Better Than Cocaine: Learning to grow coffee, and live, in Colombia, Barry Max Wills, 2023, Fuller Vigil
Categories: Colombia, South America
Emotional surplus value
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Maids were not made to serve—they are workers like everyone else, whose emotional labours take a toll. Paid to Care: Domestic Workers in Contemporary Latin American Culture, Rachel Randall, 2023, University of Texas Press
Categories: Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, North America, South America
Goliath’s global David
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Nicaragua wrong-footed the empire by attracting international support. Review: The Sandinista Revolution: A Global Latin American History, by Mateo Jarquín
Categories: Caribbean, Central America, Costa Rica, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, North America, Panama, United States
The imperial frontier
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The Border Reader, eds Gilberto Rosas and Mireya Loza, 2023, Duke University Press
Categories: Caribbean, Central America, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Europe, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, International, Mexico, North America, Peru, South America, United States, Venezuela
Animal apocalypse
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The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492, Marcy Norton, 2024, Harvard University Press
Categories: Brazil, Caribbean, Central America, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Europe, Guatemala, Honduras, International, Mexico, Nicaragua, North America, Panama, South America, Venezuela