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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 81, Number 2, April 2024Table of Contents
Articles
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View Debating the Haitian Revolution and 'Kongomania': An African Rebellion on the Other Side of the Atlantic, or a French Creole Revolution in the Caribbean?
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View Defenders of Liberty: The Congos and the Question of African Agency in the Haitian Revolution
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Defenders of Liberty: The Congos and the Question of African Agency in the Haitian Revolution
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View Kongomania Redux, The Haitian Revolution: David Geggus Responds to John Thornton, Christina Mobley, and James Sweet
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Review Essay
Book Reviews
ANCESTRAL MEMORIES AS LEGITIMATE ALTERNATIVE SOURCES
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View Where We Belong: Chemehuevi and Caxcan Preservation of Sacred Mountains by Daisy Ocampo (review)
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Where We Belong: Chemehuevi and Caxcan Preservation of Sacred Mountains by Daisy Ocampo (review)
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EARLY COLONIAL URBAN HISTORY
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View A Tale of Two Granadas. Custom, Community, and Citizenship in the Spanish Empire, 1568–1668 by Max Deardoff (review)
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A Tale of Two Granadas. Custom, Community, and Citizenship in the Spanish Empire, 1568–1668 by Max Deardoff (review)
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HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND THE HISTORY OF CATHOLICISM AND COLONIZATION
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View Sacred Habitat: Nature and Catholicism in the Early Modern Spanish Atlantic by Ran Segev (review)
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HISTORY OF THE BOOK AND COLONIAL LITERATE CULTURE
A Colonial Book Market. Peruvian Print Culture in the Age of Enlightenment by Agnes Gehbald (review)
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NAHUATL VERSIONS OF THE PASSION PLAY AND THEIR CONTEXT
HISTORY OF EARLY CALIFORNIA IN THE SPANISH, MEXICAN, AND EARLY AMERICAN ERAS
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View Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo: Life in Spanish, Mexican, and American California by Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz (review)
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Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo: Life in Spanish, Mexican, and American California by Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz (review)
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CHILE DURING THE AGE OF REVOLUTIONS
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View The Age of Dissent: Revolution and the Power of Communication in Chile, 1780–1833 by Martín Bowen (review)
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POLICING, COURTS, AND PRISONS IN THE US SOUTHWEST
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View Borders of Violence and Justice: Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and Law Enforcement in the Southwest, 1835–1935 by Brian D. Behenken (review)
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Borders of Violence and Justice: Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and Law Enforcement in the Southwest, 1835–1935 by Brian D. Behenken (review)
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ABOLITION, MODERNIZATION, AND INCARCERATION
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View Policing Freedom: Illegal Enslavement, Labor, and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century Brazil by Martine Jean (review)
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Policing Freedom: Illegal Enslavement, Labor, and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century Brazil by Martine Jean (review)
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FEMINISM AND WOMEN’S ACTIVISM IN ARGENTINA
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View Gendering Antifascism. Women's Activism in Argentina and the World, 1918–1947 by Sandra McGee Deutsch (review)
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POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE PERUVIAN LEFT
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View The Fate of Peruvian Democracy: Political Violence, Human Rights, and the Legal Left by Tamara Feinstein (review)
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MEMORY AND LABOR HISTORY IN MODERN CHILE
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View Ránquil: Rural Rebellion, Political Violence, and Historical Memory in Chile by Thomas Miller Klubock (review)
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US-MEXICO RELATIONS AND FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE
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View The Dread Plague and the Cow Killers: The Politics of Animal Disease in Mexico and the World by Thomas Rath (review)
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DEMOCRATIZATION AND IMPUNITY FOR HUMAN RIGHTS CRIMES
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View Of Light and Struggle: Social Justice, Human Rights, and Accountability in Uruguay by Debbie Sharnak (review)
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POLITICIANS AND POPULAR MOBILIZATION AGAINST BRAZIL’S MILITARY DICTATORSHIP
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View Until the Storm Passes: Politicians, Democracy, and the Demise of Brazil's Military Dictatorship by Bryan Pitts (review)
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LOVE, RACE, AND SEX IN ARUBA AND CURAÇAO’S ENERGY ECONOMY
DISCOURSE AND ACTIONS IN CATHOLIC MISSIONS IN SOUTHERN ANDES
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View Landscapes of Liberation. Mission and Development in Peru's Southern Highlands (1958–1988) by Noah Oehri (review)
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RESISTANCE TO REAGAN’S IMMIGRATION POLICY
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View Detention Empire: Reagan's War on Immigrants & the Seeds of Resistance by Kristina Shull (review)
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Detention Empire: Reagan's War on Immigrants & the Seeds of Resistance by Kristina Shull (review)
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NEOLIBERALIZATION’S IMPACT IN CHILEAN SOCIETY
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View Identity Investments: Middle-class Responses to Precarious Privilege in Neoliberal Chile by Joel Phillip Stillerman (review)
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Identity Investments: Middle-class Responses to Precarious Privilege in Neoliberal Chile by Joel Phillip Stillerman (review)
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EXTRACTIVISM, INFORMALITY, AND THE COLOMBIAN GOLD BOOM
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View Shifting Livelihoods: Gold Mining and Subsistence in the Chocó, Colombia by Daniel Tubb (review)
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| ISSN | 1533-6247 |
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| Print ISSN | 0003-1615 |
| Launched on MUSE | 2024-10-15 |
| Open Access | No |
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