Mapping the Country of Regions: The Chorographic Commission of Nineteenth-Century Colombia, Nancy P Applebaum, 2016, University of North Carolina Press
Categories: Colombia, South America
Tag: Social history
Shared dreams
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We Dream Together: Dominican Independence, Haiti, and the Fight for Caribbean Freedom, Anne Eller, 2016, Duke University Press
Categories: Caribbean, Dominican Republic, Haiti
Biblical border
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Migrating Faith: Pentecostalism in the United States and Mexico in the Twentieth Century, Daniel Ramírez, 2015, University of North Carolina Press
Categories: Mexico, North America, United States
Aquatic mobilisation
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The Geographies of Social Movements: Afro-Colombian Mobilization and the Aquatic Space, Ulrich Oslender, 2016, Duke University Press
Categories: Colombia, South America
A family affair
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Domesticating Organ Transplant: Familial Sacrifice and National Aspiration in Mexico, Megan Crowley-Matoka, 2016, Duke University Press
Categories: Mexico, North America
Exposed in the fields
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An exploitative labour programme undermined the parasitic relationship between Puerto Rican populism and US priorities in 1950 ––– ||| We Are Left Without A Father, Eileen Suárez Findlay (2015, Duke)
Categories: Caribbean, North America, Puerto Rico, United States
Keeping rights healthy
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Brazil offers important lessons about how some groups find it difficult to take advantage of the right to healthcare ––– ||| A Right to Health, Jessica Scott Jerome (2015, Texas)
Categories: Brazil, South America
The subversive screen
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Fidel Castro’s canny ability to use television played a transformative role in shaping Cuban visions of modernity following the revolution ––– ||| Broadcasting Modernity, Yeidy Rivero (2015, Duke)
Categories: Caribbean, Cuba, North America, United States
Virginal obsessions
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Reproduction has played a key role shaping ideas about female virtue in the development of modern Mexico ––– ||| Reproduction and Its Discontents in Mexico, Nora Jaffary (2016, North Carolina)
Categories: Mexico, North America
An informal violence
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Informalization of the economy due to neoliberal reform has fuelled violence in a poor Argentine barrio ––– ||| In Harm’s Way, Javier Auyero and María Fernanda Berti (2015, Princeton)
Categories: Argentina, South America