Sarah Hines is an assistant professor of history at the University of Oklahoma. You can read her new article, “The Power and Ethics of Vernacular Modernism: The Misicuni Dam Project in Cochabamba, Bolivia, 1944–2017,” in HAHR 98.2.
John French is a professor of history and African and African American studies at Duke University. He has published on to class, race, and politics in Brazil, Latin America, and beyond through 42 refereed articles and 3 books: The Brazilian Workers’ ABC (1992), Drowning in Laws (2004), and the coedited volume The Gendered Worlds of Latin American Women Workers (1997). This interview is part of a broader collection of interviews with previous editors of HAHR in celebration of the journal’s …
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Curated by Christopher Valesey Thematic Collections are assortments of 3-5 past and recently released articles in HAHR about key issues, events, individuals, or historiographical trends. These collections can be used as gateways into a specific historical subject, demonstrations of methodology, or sources for classroom discussion. With concerns about climate change, waste, and conservation mounting in the twenty-first century, historical research on the environment is flourishing. Using a range of methods, this growing literature highlights the multitude of ways that …
Corinna Zeltsman is an Assistant Professor of History at Georgia Southern University. You can read her article, “Defining Responsibility: Printers, Politics, and Law in Early Republican Mexico City,” in HAHR 98.2.
Jaymie Patricia Heilman is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Alberta. Her work focuses on indigenous political activism and radical politics in twentieth-century Peru. You can read her new article, “Peruvian Cocaine Triangles: Arrests and Assertions of Innocence in Ayacucho’s Drug Trade, 1976–1981,” in HAHR 98.2.
Coleman, Kevin. A Camera in the Garden of Eden. The Self-Forging of a Banana Republic, University of Texas Press, Texas, 2016. As I read this book, I was surprised by Kevin Coleman’s command over multiple lines of inquiry. The book develops a new way of thinking about issues that the historiography of Latin America has long been concerned with, and that Coleman is consolidating in several initiatives (http://kevincoleman.org/). The questions that I posed to him revolve around his …
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EL INDIO COMO EL “OTRO”. REPRESENTACIONES Y PARTICIPACIÓN POLÍTICA INDÍGENA EN LOS SIGLOS XIX Y XX. Eddy W. Romero Meza Las representaciones negativas del indio en el siglo XIX, provienen de la herencia colonial, pero también de los prejuicios sociales o de clase de la Europa de la época. La burguesía o proto-burguesía peruana, adoptó maneras que mezclaban tanto la exclusión colonial y los “modernos” prejuicios de clase (como autotitularse la“gente decente”). El indio es visto como el “Otro” …
En 1990, el Perú estaba inmerso en la peor crisis económica de su historia reciente, llegando a un 5,149% de inflación, en la que fue la parte final de una crisis que provenía de décadas anteriores y tenía como causas principales al alto endeudamiento y déficit alcanzado durante los gobiernos militares de la década de 1970 y el pésimo manejo económico de los gobiernos de la década de 1980, especialmente el de Alan García Pérez (1985 -1990). Sumado a …
LA AMÉRICA COLONIAL. ENTRE LA CONQUISTA, LOS DEBATES Y LA LEGISLACIÓN INDIANA Eddy W. Romero Meza «Hemos purgado el error de haber descubierto América, de haberla colonizado más generosamente de lo que cuentan los historiadores extranjeros con un criterio protestante imbécil, y tan fanático o más que el del católico». Pío Baroja La categoría “Indio” surge con la conquista española sobre América. Los diversos pueblos de esta parte del mundo fueron reducidos a la generalidad de “indios”, …
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