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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 2, April 2019Table of Contents
Articles
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View The Workings of Calidad: Honor, Governance, and Social Hierarchies in the Corporations of the Spanish Empire
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The Workings of Calidad: Honor, Governance, and Social Hierarchies in the Corporations of the Spanish Empire
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View Cultivators, Domestics, and Slaves: Slavery in Santo Domingo Under Louverture and Napoleon, 1801–1803
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Cultivators, Domestics, and Slaves: Slavery in Santo Domingo Under Louverture and Napoleon, 1801–1803
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View Horror on the Periphery of Modernity: The Invention of the Baixada Fluminense and the Legendary Tenório Cavalcanti
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Horror on the Periphery of Modernity: The Invention of the Baixada Fluminense and the Legendary Tenório Cavalcanti
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View Making Friends and Making Out: The Social and Romantic Lives of Young Communists in Chile (1958–1973)
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Making Friends and Making Out: The Social and Romantic Lives of Young Communists in Chile (1958–1973)
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Research Note
Book Reviews
Itza Maya
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View Historical and Archaeological Perspectives on the Itzas of Petén, Guatemala ed. by Prudence M. Rice, Don S. Rice (review)
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Aztec History
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View Pueblos within Pueblos: Tlaxilacalli Communities in Acolhuacan, Mexico, ca. 1272–1692 by Benjamin D. Johnson (review)
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Pueblos within Pueblos: Tlaxilacalli Communities in Acolhuacan, Mexico, ca. 1272–1692 by Benjamin D. Johnson (review)
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Women Mystics
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View Embodying the Sacred: Women Mystics in Seventeenth-Century Lima by Nancy E. Van Deusen (review)
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Urban Slavery
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View Urban Slavery in Colonial Mexico: Puebla de los Ángeles, 1531–1706 by Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva (review)
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Urban Slavery in Colonial Mexico: Puebla de los Ángeles, 1531–1706 by Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva (review)
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The Inquisition
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View The Lima Inquisition: The Plight of Crypto-Jews in Seventeenth-Century Peru by Ana E. Schaposchnik (review)
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Privateers in the Caribbean
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View No Limits to Their Sway: Cartagena’s Privateers and the Masterless Caribbean in the Age of Revolution by Edgardo Peŕez Morales (review)
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No Limits to Their Sway: Cartagena’s Privateers and the Masterless Caribbean in the Age of Revolution by Edgardo Peŕez Morales (review)
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Frontier of Colonial New Mexico
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View Situational Identities along the Raiding Frontier of Colonial New Mexico by Jun Sunseri (review)
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The Pacific World
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View Art and War in the Pacific World: Making, Breaking, and Taking from Anson’s Voyage to the Philippine-American War by J. M. Mancini (review)
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Art and War in the Pacific World: Making, Breaking, and Taking from Anson’s Voyage to the Philippine-American War by J. M. Mancini (review)
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Mexican Antiquities
Ornamental Nationalism. Archaeology and Antiquities in Mexico, 1876–1911 by Seonaid Valiant (review)
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Mexican World Heritage Site
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View San Miguel de Allende: Mexicans, Foreigners, and the Making of a World Heritage Site by Lisa Pinley Covert (review)
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Politics of Religion
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View The Politics of Religion and the Rise of Social Catholicism in Peru (1884–1935): Faith, Workers and Race before Liberation Theology by Ricardo Daniel Cubas Ramacciotti (review)
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Manifest Destiny in Central America
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View Empire by Invitation: William Walker and Manifest Destiny in Central America by Michel Gobat (review)
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Baseball and the Dominican Republic
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View The Pitcher and the Dictator: Satchel Paige’s Unlikely Season in the Dominican Republic by Averell “Ace” Smith (review)
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Cuba’s Revolution
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View Heroes, Martyrs, and Political Messiahs in Revolutionary Cuba, 1946–1958 by By Lillian Guerra (review)
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View Cuban Revolution in America: Havana and the Making of a United States Left, 1968–1992 by Teishan A. Latner (review)
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Cuban Revolution in America: Havana and the Making of a United States Left, 1968–1992 by Teishan A. Latner (review)
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Puerto Rico and Health
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View Pushing in Silence: Modernizing Puerto Rico and the Medicalization of Childbirth by Isabel M. Córdoba (review)
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Mexican American Identity
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View Mestizos Come Home! Making and Claiming Mexican American Identity by Robert Con Davis-Undiano (review)
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Mestizos Come Home! Making and Claiming Mexican American Identity by Robert Con Davis-Undiano (review)
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Writing on Documentary Film
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View Telling Migrant Stories: Latin American Diaspora in Documentary Film ed. by Esteban E. Loustaunau, Lauren E. Shaw (review)
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Memory and Truth
Crime and Political Violence
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View Los Zetas Inc: Criminal Corporations, Energy, and Civil War in Mexico by Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera (review)
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Neoliberalism
Television Studies
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View Reimagining Brazilian Television: Luiz Fernando Carvalho’s Contemporary Vision by Eli Lee Carter (review)
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US Policy Toward Latin America
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View In Their Own Best Interest: A History of the U.S. Effort to Improve Latin Americans by Lars Schoultz (review)
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View Dollar Diplomacy by Force: Nation-Building and Resistance in the Dominican Republic by Ellen D. Tillman (review)
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Immigration and Migration
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View The Undocumented Everyday: Migrant Lives and the Politics of Visibility by Rebecca M. Schreiber (review)
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Mexico
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View A History of Boxing in Mexico: Masculinity, Modernity, and Nationalism by Stephen D. Allen (review)
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| ISSN | 1533-6247 |
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| Print ISSN | 0003-1615 |
| Launched on MUSE | 2019-04-15 |
| Open Access | No |
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