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Curated by Jocelyn Olcott and Sean Mannion, Duke University Ever since their opening to the public in 2002, the archives of the Dirección Federal de Seguridad (DFS) have proven to be both an invaluable trove for researchers and a political lightning rod. In January of this year, new restrictions on access to this source were announced, threatening a burgeoning historiography on Mexico’s dirty war and on the country’s social and political movements from the 1950s to the 1980s, in …

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Tulio Halperin Donghi, a towering figure in the fields of Argentine and Latin American history who authored 24 books, including pioneering monographs, major works of synthesis, essay collections, and a powerful memoir of his formative years, died on November 14, 2014, in Berkeley, California. Historians Diego Armus and Mark Healey have commemorated Prof. Donghi’s life and career for HAHR, which can be read at: http://hahr.dukejournals.org/content/95/3/493.full We invite all readers to comment on and add to this obituary here.

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TRAYECTORIA DEL DESENCANTO EN LA HISTORIA PERUANA Como todos los soñadores, confundí el desencanto con la verdad. Jean Paul Sartre Uno de los historiadores más influyentes en el Perú, ha sido sin duda Heraclio Bonilla. Textos como “Guano y Burguesía” (1974) o “La independencia en el Perú: las palabras y los hechos” (1972), han sido importantes aportaciones en su momento, tanto por el contenido en sí como por la apertura de debates historiográficos. Sin embargo, el tono crítico y …

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Cinco décadas após o Golpe Militar de 1964, duas de ditadura e três de democracia, o país vive a publicização dos trabalhos de apuração do período ditatorial. São os relatórios das comissões da verdade em suas várias instâncias. No último dia 12 de março foi lançado o Relatório da Comissão da Verdade Rubens Paiva, do Estado de São Paulo. Em pouco mais de dois anos de trabalhos, especialmente focados nos casos de mortos e desaparecidos, a Comissão teve como …

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Los elementos culturales han constituido históricamente parte de nuestra identidad. Estos elementos que incluyen desde el patrimonio material como los lugares arqueológicos hasta las muestras gastronómicas, sin dejar de lado el denominado patrimonio inmaterial como danzas y otras representaciones intangibles, han sido causantes de disputas entre países por sus denominaciones de origen. En el Perú los conflictos por objetos y muestras culturales están presentes desde hace varias décadas, uno de los primeros y más recordados, fue la denominada “Guerra …

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¿EXISTE NACIÓN EN EL PERÚ? Tras casi dos siglos de la independencia, la pregunta aún sigue vigente en el imaginario peruano. No poder afirmar hoy que somos una nación, representaría el fracaso del proyecto republicano. La idea de nación es muy antigua, con significados similares a pueblo, comunidad, colectividad o etnia. Sin embargo, su significado actual es deudor de los siglos XVIII y XIX, época de la conformación de una nueva conciencia política, cultural y social que dará origen …

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By Geoff Baker One of the most interesting books I’ve read in a while is Manuel Silva-Ferrer’s just-published El cuerpo dócil de la cultura: Poder, cultura y comunicación en la Venezuela de Chávez. It’s a must-read for anyone interested in recent Venezuelan culture and its relationship to politics and economics. Direct references to Abreu and El Sistema are scarce, but the overall arguments are highly relevant, and I’m going to put them into dialogue here with my own research …

Abreu, Chávez and Oil. A review of Silva-Ferrer’s El cuerpo dócil de la cultura: poder, cultura y comunicación en la Venezuela de Chávez. Read more »

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Curated by Farren Yero, Duke University Drugs, broadly conceived, have been central to Latin American history from the pre-Columbian era to the present. Over the last three decades, illicit drugs in particular have come to be associated with the region, and with them, tremendous violence and political instability. In this introductory essay, Paul Gootenberg and Isaac Campos consider the possibilities for a “new drug history of the Americas,” offering a long-term periodization of drugs to uncover and analyze their …

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James Lockhart, the eminent historian of colonial Latin America, passed away on January 17, 2014. In recognition of Professor Lockhart’s position in the community as one of the foremost scholars of colonial Latin America, one who blazed the way forward in the leading subfields of social history and ethnohistory, the editors asked four of Lockhart’s former students to compose an obituary, which can be read here: http://hahr.dukejournals.org/content/95/2/335.full We invite all readers to comment on and add to this obituary …

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The Kellogg Institute has lost a dear friend and colleague with the sudden death on June 16 of Faculty Fellow Sabine MacCormack, who suffered a heart attack while gardening, one of her favorite pursuits. She was 71. “Sabine was one of Notre Dame’s most distinguished faculty members,” said Kellogg Institute Director Scott Mainwaring. “Beyond that, she was a person of great generosity and warmth. She was tireless and fearless in working for the collective good, and touched many lives …

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