Routledge Studies in the History of the Americas
Mexico, 1848-1853: Los Años Olvidados
1st Edition
Edited
By Pedro Santoni, Will Fowler
June 30, 2020
Historians have paid scant attention to the five years that span from the conclusion early in 1848 of Mexico’s disastrous conflict with the United States to the final return to power in April 1853 of General Antonio López de Santa Anna. This volume presents a more thorough understanding of this ...
Tuberculosis in the Americas, 1870-1945: Beneath the Anguish in Philadelphia and Buenos Aires
1st Edition
By Vera Blinn Reber
June 30, 2020
This book focuses on the era during which the cause of tuberculosis had been identified, and public health officials were seeking to prevent it, but scientists had not yet found a cure. By examining tuberculosis comparatively in two Atlantic port cities, Buenos Aires and Philadelphia, it explores ...
The Monroe Doctrine in a Contemporary Perspective
1st Edition
By Denneth M. Modeste
February 04, 2020
This book surveys the impact of the Monroe Doctrine on United States relations with Latin America, with a particular focus on the Caribbean Basin, since its proclamation in 1823. It explores the historical role of the Monroe Doctrine as the instrument to foreclose future European colonial ...
The Memory of the Argentina Disappearances: The Political History of Nunca Mas
1st Edition
By Emilio Crenzel
November 17, 2017
Memory of the Argentina Disappearances examines the history of the production, public circulation, and the interpretations and reinterpretations of the Nunca Más report issued by Argentina’s National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons (CONADEP). It was established in 1983 by constitutional ...
Projections of Power in the Americas
1st Edition
Edited
By Helene Balslev Clausen, Niels Bjerre-Poulsen, Jan Gustafsson
May 24, 2017
Two phenomena are of central interest in the nine contributions that make up this volume: one is the question of power and its multiple forms, and the other is that geographical, political and cultural multifaceted unity we call the ‘the Americas’. The book is a multidisciplinary effort, written by...