Call for Papers for Two Panels Jointly Sponsored by the Hispanic American Historical Review and William and Mary Quarterly:   “Exploring Colonial Roots/Routes in North America and Latin America”   For the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory Pennsylvania State University, September 25-29, 2019 Abstracts due March 1, 2019 The Editors of the Hispanic American Historical Review and the William and Mary Quarterly invite paper proposals for two featured, jointly sponsored panels at the American Society for …

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Call for Proposals (a pdf of this CFP can be found at http://hahr.dukejournals.org/content/95/4/725.full.pdf+html) Guidelines for the Transfer of the Editorial Office of the HAHR The editorial office of the HAHR moved from the University of Pittsburgh to Duke University in July 2012 and will move to another institution in July 2017. The new editors will assume responsibility for the February 2018 issue. Bids for the five-year term beginning in July 2017 will be received during 2016 and made available to …

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Tommaso Koch. El País. Madrid. 17.12.2014 (http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2014/12/17/actualidad/1418825267_980492.html) El tiempo es un enemigo cruel. Tarde o temprano, sus ataques acaban con todo. Sin embargo, hay un búnker cerca de Madrid donde resisten miles de ancianas supervivientes. Algunas escaparon de una inundación, otras del olvido. Muchas llegaron descompuestas u oxidadas y muestran las arrugas de la edad. Una hasta estuvo a punto de ser vendida como si nada en el mercado del Rastro. Ahora, sin embargo, están a salvo, en el …

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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 …

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Nos hará falta Por Beatriz Sarlo   Foto: Mariano Soller   Ayer, 14 de noviembre, a la una de la madrugada, murió en Berkeley el más grande historiador argentino,Tulio Halperin Donghi. Hace menos de un mes, durante toda la tarde, leí su último libro, El enigma de Belgrano. Este hombre, nacido en 1926, me sorprendió una vez más con una especie de Idiota de la familia rioplatense cuyo protagonista, a diferencia del Flaubert de Sartre, fue formado por sus …

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We are pleased to announce the new website of the Hispanic American Historical Review. We launch the website with a new forum on the economist and intellectual and political historian, Albert Hirschman. This forum, based on reactions to Jeremy Adelman’s new biography, includes contributions from Peter Coclanis, Paul Gootenberg, Joseph Love, Richard Salvucci, and David Sartorius. We invite your comments on the forum, which has been curated by HAHR’s managing editor, Sean Mannion. Please also look at our new …

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