Contributors
- Contributors
Ricardo D. Salvatore is professor of history at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires. He is coeditor, with Gilbert M. Joseph and Catherine C. LeGrand, of Close Encounters of Empire: Writing the Cultural History of U.S.–Latin American Relations (1998); and coeditor, with Carlos Aguirre, of The Birth of the Penitentiary in Latin America, 1830–1940 (1996), which is a collection of essays on the history of prisons, criminology, and social control. He is currently writing a book on the cultural and social history of peasants and workers in Buenos Aires province during the Rosas era (1829–52) and is also doing research on the narratives and images of South America produced by North Americans.
Cynthia Radding is associate professor of history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Wandering Peoples: Colonialism, Ethnic Spaces and Ecological Frontiers in Northwestern Mexico, 1700–1850 (1997) and Entre el desierto y la sierra: Las naciones o’odham y tegüima de Sonora, 1530–1840 (1995). She is currently working on a book manuscript that focuses on the comparative cultural environmental histories of Sonora (Mexico) and Chiquitos (Bolivia).
William Schell Jr. is associate professor of history at Murray State University, where he directs the World Civilizations and Cultures program. He is the author of Integral Outsiders: The American Colony in Mexico City, 1876–1913 (2001) and “Money as Commodity: Limantour and Mexico’s conversion to the Gold Standard, 1905,” Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos 12 (1996). He is currently working on a book manuscript entitled “Pacific Relations: China, Mexico, Japan, and the United States, 1867–1940.”
