A fascinating history of chicle production sheds light on the fragility of extractive industries in Latin America
Categories: Central America, Guatemala, Mexico, North America, United States
Tag: Social history
Chopping and chewing: Q&A with Jennifer Mathews
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The author of Chicle: The Chewing Gum of the Americas, from the Ancient Maya to William Wrigley answers questions about gum use over the ages and the magnates who built fortunes upon it
Categories: Central America, Guatemala, Mexico, North America, United States
Gender and the Mexican Revolution
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Revolutionary patriarchs prioritised their vision of social revolution over female emancipation
Categories: Mexico, North America
Imperial Subjects: Race and Identity in Colonial Latin America
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Categories: South America, Venezuela
Terror’s celluloid legacy
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Constanza Burucúa’s study of how Argentine film-makers grappled with the ‘Dirty War’ confirms cinema’s importance to democratic culture
Categories: Argentina, South America
Creole Subjects in the Colonial Americas
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Categories: North America, United States
Open Veins of Latin America
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Categories: North America, South America, United States, Uruguay
Salt in the Sand
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Categories: Chile, South America
Sugarlandia Revisited
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Categories: Caribbean, Cuba, North America, Puerto Rico, United States
An American utopia
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Alexander Missal demonstrates that the construction site of the Panama Canal was not just filled with mud and water – but with meaning for the US as it began to assert itself on the world stage
Categories: Central America, North America, Panama, United States