Latin American History Books

New and Published Books

1. History, Memory, and State-Sponsored Violence

   Time and Justice

   By Berber Bevernage

   Series: Routledge Approaches to History

   Modern historiography embraces the notion that time is irreversible, implying that the past should be imagined as something ‘absent’ or ‘distant.’ Victims of historical injustice, however, in contrast, often claim that the past got ‘stuck’ in the present and that it retains a haunting presence....

   Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
2. The Caribbean History Reader

   Edited by Nicola Foote

   Series: Routledge Readers in History

   The Caribbean is a region that has been at the heart of world history and global development for centuries. Despite its small geographic size, it is the lynchpin of the Atlantic economy. Further, through a series of migrations, Caribbean people are represented in most of the major cities of...

   Published December 16th 2012 by Routledge
3. Transpacific Revolutionaries

   The Chinese Revolution in Latin America

   By Matthew Rothwell

   Series: Routledge Studies in Modern History

   This book shows how Maoism was globalized during the 1949-1976 period, highlighting the agency of both Latin American and Chinese actors. While Maoism has long been known to have been influential in many social movements and guerrilla groups in Latin America, author Matthew Rothwell is the first to...

   Published December 12th 2012 by Routledge
4. North American Borderlands

   Edited by Brian DeLay

   Series: Rewriting Histories

   Since the early colonial period, historians have been fascinated with North America’s borderlands – places where people interacted across multiple, independent political and legal systems. Today the scholarship on these regions is more robust and innovative than ever before. North American...

   Published December 6th 2012 by Routledge
5. Globalization and the Decolonial Option

   Edited by Walter D. Mignolo, Arturo Escobar

   This is the first book in English profiling the work of a research collective that evolved around the notion of "coloniality", understood as the hidden agenda and the darker side of modernity and whose members are based in South America and the United States. The project called for an...

   Published August 29th 2012 by Routledge
6. Haitian History

   New Perspectives

   Edited by Alyssa Sepinwall

   Series: Rewriting Histories

   Despite Haiti's proximity to the United States, and its considerable importance to our own history, Haiti barely registered in the historic consciousness of most Americans until recently. Those who struggled to understand Haiti's suffering in the earthquake of 2010 often spoke of it as the poorest...

   Published August 26th 2012 by Routledge
7. Latin American Modern Architectures

   Ambiguous Territories

   Edited by Patricio del Real, Helen Gyger

   Latin American Modern Architectures: Ambiguous Territories has thirteen new essays from a range of distinguished architectural historians to help you understand the region’s rich and varied architecture. It will also introduce you to major projects that have not been written about in English. A...

   Published August 23rd 2012 by Routledge
8. Mexico-United States Relations

   The Semantics of Sovereignty

   By Arturo Santa-Cruz

   Series: Routledge Studies in North American Politics

   Sovereignty is a key factor to consider when studying the Mexico-United States relationship. During most of the twentieth century, as a result of the new character of the Mexican post-revolutionary regime, there was a decoupling between the state’s maximalist discourse on sovereignty, and its...

   Published July 25th 2012 by Routledge
9. Cinema and Inter-American Relations

   Tracking Transnational Affect

   By Adrián Pérez Melgosa

   Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

   Cinema and Inter-American Relations studies the key role that commercial narrative films have played in the articulation of the political and cultural relationship between the United States and Latin America since the onset of the Good Neighbor policy (1933). Pérez Melgosa analyzes the evolution of...

   Published July 25th 2012 by Routledge
10. Youth and Social Change in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

    Edited by Charles Walker, Svetlana Stephenson

    Two decades have now passed since the revolutions of 1989 swept through Eastern Europe and precipitated the collapse of state socialism across the region, engendering a period of massive social, economic and political transformation. This book explores the ways in which young people growing up in...

    Published April 19th 2012 by Routledge