New Books in Latin American Studies
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Tanya Harmer, "Beatriz Allende: A Revolutionary Life in Cold War Latin America" (UNC Press, 2020)
Harmer explores how a young Chilean woman pursued her political commitments and navigated patriarchal strictures as a militant leftist...
Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)
Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...
Donald Stevens, "Mexico in the Time of Cholera" (U New Mexico Press, 2019)
Stevens uses the 1833 Cholera epidemic that devastated independent Mexico as his his point of departure, this is not primarily a medical history...
Alexander L. Fattal, "Guerrilla Marketing: Counterinsurgency and Capitalism in Colombia" (U Chicago Press, 2018)
Fattal investigates the Colombian government’s campaign to turn Marxist guerrilla fighters in the FARC into consumer citizens...
Ben Nobbs-Thiessen, "Landscape of Migration: Mobility and Environmental Change on Bolivia's Tropical Frontier, 1952 to the Present" (UNC Press, 2020)
Nobbs-Thiessen traces the entwined histories of Andean, Mennonite, and Okinawan migrants to Amazonian Bolivia...
Louis A. Pérez, "Rice in the Time of Sugar: The Political Economy of Food in Cuba" (UNC Press, 2019)
Pérez explores how Cuba’s dependency on the sugar economy also made the island’s population dependent on food imports like rice.
Robert A. Karl, "Forgotten Peace: Reform, Violence and the Making of Contemporary Colombia" (U California Press 2017)
Karl explores how Colombians grappled with violence and peace during and after the period known as “La Violencia”—a period that many historians situate between 1946 and the mid 1960s...
Victor Uribe-Urán, "Fatal Love: Spousal Killers, Law, and Punishment in the Late Colonial Spanish Atlantic" (Stanford UP, 2016)
Uribe-Urán compares the cases of Spain, and the late-colonial societies of Mexico and Colombia, in a historical moment characterized by corporate patriarchy and enlightened punishment...
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?
Margaret Randall, "I Never Left Home: Poet, Feminist, Revolutionary" (Duke UP, 2020)
Randall focuses in this memoir on recreating the communities and historical moments in which she lived. Randall especially emphasizes how her encounter with feminist thinking reshaped how she understood not only her own life, but also the Latin American r