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Since its founding in 1944, The Americas (TAm) has been one of the principal English-language journals of Latin American history. It publishes articles on all chronological periods of Latin American, Spanish borderlands, and related Iberian scholarship. The journal includes an extensive book review section and a compilation of news and notes of general interest to Latin Americanists.
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Volume 76, Number 1, January 2019Table of Contents

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View Abolition, Chinese Indentured Labor, and the State: Cuba, Peru, and the United States during the Mid Nineteenth Century
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View The Neglected Narratives of Cuba's Partido Independiente de Color: Civil Rights, Popular Politics, and Emancipatory Reading Practices
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View The Press and Brazilian Narratives of Uncle Tom's Cabin: Slavery and the Public Sphere in Rio de Janeiro, ca. 1855
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View Counterrevolutionary Friends: Caribbean Basin Dictators and Guatemalan Exiles against the Guatemalan Revolution, 1945–50
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View Region, Nation, and Social Science: An Interview with Joseph L. Love on 50 Years of Studying Brazil
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View Before Kukulkán: Bioarcheology of Maya Life, Death, and Identity at Classic Period Yaxuná by Viera Tiesler et al. (review)
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View Smoke, Flames, and the Human Body in Mesoamerican Ritual Practice eds. by Vera Tiesler and Andrew K. Scherer (review)
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View The Oxford Handbook of the Aztecs eds. by Deborah L Nichols and Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría (review)
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View Building Yanhuitlan: Art, Politics and Religion in the Mixteca Alta since 1500 by Alessia Frassani (review)
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View Lettered Artists and the Languages of Empire: Painters and the Profession in Early Colonial Quito by Susan Verdi Webster (review)
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View Frontiers of Evangelization: Indians in the Sierra Gorda and Chiquitos Missions by Robert H. Jackson (review)
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View The Directory for Confessors, 1585. Implementing the Catholic Reformation in New Spain transed. by Stafford Poole (review)
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View In the Lands of Fire and Sun: Resistance and Accommodation in the Huichol Sierra, 1723–1930 by Michele McArdle Stephens (review)
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View The Mexican Heartland: How Communities Shaped Capitalism, a Nation, and World History, 1500–2000 by John Tutino (review)
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View Patriots, Prostitutes, and Spies: Women and the Mexican-American War by John M. Belohlavek (review)
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View The Science and Politics of Race in Mexico and the United States, 1910-1950 by Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt (review)
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View Demanding Justice and Security. Indigenous Women and Legal Pluralities in Latin America ed. by Rachel Sieder (review)
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View The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives by Macarena Gómez-Barris (review)
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View Latin American Women Filmmakers. Social and Cultural Perspectives by Traci Roberts-Camps (review)
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View Public Spectacles of Violence: Sensational Cinema and Journalism in Early Twentieth-Century Mexico and Brazil by Rielle Navitski (review)
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View Are We Not Foreigners Here? Indigenous Nationalism in the US-Mexican Borderlands by Jeffrey M. Schulze (review)
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View The Latina/o Midwest Reader eds. by Omar Valerio-Jiménez, Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez, and Claire F. Fox (review)
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View Most Scandalous Woman: Magda Portal and the Dream of Revolution in Peru by Myrna Ivonne Wallace Fuentes (review)
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View Mobility and Modernity: Panama in the Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Imagination by Robert D. Aguirre (review)
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View Culture and the Cuban State: Participation, Recognition, and Dissonance under Communism by Yvon Grenier (review)
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View Paradise Destroyed: Catastrophe and Citizenship in the French Caribbean by Christopher M. Church (review)
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View El verdadero anticomunismo: Política, género y Guerra Fría en Costa Rica (1948–1973) eds. by Iván Molina Jiménez and David Díaz Arias (review)
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View The Pinochet Generation: The Chilean Military in the Twentieth Century by John R. Bawden (review)
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View Watering the Revolution: An Environmental and Technological History of Agrarian Reform in Mexico by Mikael D. Wolfe (review)
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View Mujeres: en el cambio social en el siglo xx mexicano by María Teresa Fernández Aceves (review)
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ISSN | 1533-6247 |
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Print ISSN | 0003-1615 |
Launched on MUSE | 2019-02-23 |
Open Access | No |
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