New Books in Latin American Studies

New Books in Latin American Studies


Latest Episodes

S. Deborah Kang, "The INS on the Line: Making Immigration Law on the US-Mexico Border, 1917-1954" (Oxford UP, 2017)
November 11, 2019

Kang explores the history behind Immigration and Naturalization Service throughout the 20th Century,..

Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
November 03, 2019

What do university presses do, and how do they do it?

Kathleen M. McIntyre, "Protestantism and State Formation in Postrevolutionary Oaxaca" (U New Mexico Press, 2019)
October 30, 2019

McIntyre explores the impact of Protestantism on Catholic indigenous communities in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca in the period directly following the Mexican Revolution 1910-1920...

Gary J. Adler, Jr., "Empathy Beyond US Borders: The Challenges of Transnational Civic Engagement" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
October 29, 2019

Do immersion trips really transform those who participate and how so?

Christina Jiménez, "Making an Urban Public: Popular Claims to the City in Mexico, 1879-1932" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2019)
October 28, 2019

"Making an Urban Public" is a social history of the city of Morelia, located in Western Mexico in the state of Michoacán...

J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers" (West Virginia UP, 2019)
October 24, 2019

The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...

Julia Young, "Mexican Exodus: Emigrants, Exiles, and Refugees of the Cristero War" (Oxford UP, 2019)
October 23, 2019

Young reframes the Cristero war as a transnational conflict...

Tyson Reeder, "Smugglers, Pirates, and Patriots: Free Trade in the Age of Revolution" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
September 26, 2019

Reeder delineates the differences between the British and Portuguese empires as they struggled with revolutionary tumult...

Nora Jaffary, "Reproduction and its Discontents in Mexico: Childbirth and Contraception from 1750 to 1905" (UNC Press, 2016)
September 26, 2019

Jaffary tracks how medical ideas, practices, and policies surrounding reproduction changed between the late eighteenth and early twentieth centuries in Mexico...

Claudia Leal, "Landscapes of Freedom: Building a Postemancipation Society in the Rainforests of Western Colombia" (U Arizona Press, 2018)
September 23, 2019

Leal narrates the unknown history of the transition from slavery to freedom in the Pacific lowlands of Colombia...