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Heidi Tinsman is professor of history and gender and sexuality studies at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Buying into the Regime: Grapes and Consumption in Cold War Chile and the United States and Partners in Conflict: The Politics of Gender, Sexuality, and Labor in the Chilean Agrarian Reform, 1950–1973. You can read her new article “Rebel Coolies, Citizen Warriors, and Sworn Brothers: The Chinese Loyalty Oath and Alliance with Chile in the War of the Pacific” …

Interview with Heidi Tinsman, author of “Rebel Coolies, Citizen Warriors, and Sworn Brothers: The Chinese Loyalty Oath and Alliance with Chile in the War of the Pacific” Read more »

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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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Este texto es una transcripción de la conferencia pronunciada en la Mesa de Cierre del IV Simposio Internacional: Delitos, Policías y Justicias en América Latina Instituto de Historia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (IH/UFRJ) Río de Janeiro, 4 de marzo de 2016. Conferencia de Diego Galeano (PUC-Rio) Después de tres días de mesas y trabajos que reunieron cerca de 50 colegas de distintos países, hemos llegado al final de este Simposio. En la mesa de abertura, Marcos Bretas abrió este encuentro con …

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Lo árabe es, desde el punto de vista occidental, un mundo desconocido que se asocia más con lo violento, lo primitivo y hasta lo salvaje, además de otros adjetivos. En las últimas décadas las pantallas de televisión del mundo entero han mostrado a los ojos occidentales un sinfín de conflictos bélicos en el medio oriente, sin dar una clara explicación de sus causas, hecho que ha influenciado sobremanera en crear esta imagen distorsionada del Islam, y de lo árabe. …

Latinoamérica y el mundo árabe Read more »

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Probablemente sea esta nota de la British Pathé el único registro fílmico existente del famoso incendio de Lagunillas de Aguas. Un accidente que el 13 de noviembre de 1939 arrasó con el pequeño pueblo ubicado en la costa oriental del Lago de Maracaibo, en el extremo occidental de Venezuela. Durante la segunda y tercera década del siglo XX, tras el descubrimiento en 1914 del primer gran pozo en la hacienda Zumaque, en el estado Zulia, la zona este del …

Venezuela Oil Fire. El incendio y destrucción de Lagunillas de Aguas en 1939 Read more »

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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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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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  Como parte del proceso del documental El Antillano -ya culminado-, como continuación estarán presentando la producción del disco.  Puede escuchar como adelanto algunos artistas haciendo click.   El concierto será el sábado 9 de mayo de 2015 en el Teatro de la UPR, Río Piedras.