The Oxford Handbook of Latin American History

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The Oxford Handbook of Latin American History

Edited by Jose C. Moya

Abstract

The Oxford Handbook of Latin American History brings together seventeen articles that survey the recent historiography of the colonial era, independence movements, and postcolonial periods. The articles span Mexico, Spanish South America, and Brazil. They begin by questioning the limitations and meaning of Latin America as a conceptual organization of space within the Americas and how the region became excluded from broader studies of the Western hemisphere. Subsequent articles address indigenous peoples of the region; rural and urban history; slavery and race; African, European, and Asian immigration; labor; gender and sexuality; religion; family and childhood; economics; politics; and disease and medicine. In so doing, they bring together traditional approaches to politics and power, while examining the quotidian concerns of workers, women and children, peasants, and racial and ethnic minorities.

Keywords: colonial era, independence movements, postcolonial periods, Mexico, Spanish South America, Brazil, indigenous peoples, rural history, urban history, slavery

Bibliographic Information

Publisher:: Oxford University Press

Print Publication Date:: Dec 2010

ISBN:: 9780195166217

Published online:: Sep 2012

DOI:: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195166217.001.0001

Editor

Jose C. Moya, editor
Jose C. Moya is Professor Emeritus at UCLA and Professor of History at Barnard College, Columbia University, where he also directs the Forum on Migration. He has been a visiting professor at the universities of San Andrés in Buenos Aires, Santiago de Compostela in Spain, and Paris VII. His book Cousins and Strangers:Spanish Immigrants in Buenos Aires, 1850–1930 (Berkeley, 1998) received the Bolton Prize and four other awards, and the journal Historical Methods (Winter 2001) devoted a forum to its theoretical contributions to migration studies. Moya writes extensively on global migrations and anarchism.

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Front Matter
Introduction: Latin America—The Limitations and Meaning of A Historical CategoryJose C. Moya
Historiography of New SpainKevin Terraciano and Lisa Sousa
Colonial Spanish South AmericaLyman L. Johnson and Susan M. Socolow
The Historiography of Early Modern BrazilStuart B. Schwartz
Sexuality in Colonial Spanish AmericaAsunción Lavrin
Independence in Latin AmericaJeremy Adelman
Slavery in BrazilJoão José Reis and Herbert S. Klein
Postcolonial BrazilBarbara Weinstein
Race in Postabolition Afro-Latin AmericaKim D. Butler and Aline Helg
Indigenous Peoples and Nation-States in Spanish America, 1780–2000Florencia E. Mallon
Rural HistoryEric Van Young
Latin American Labor HistoryJames P. Brennan
Gender and Sexuality in Latin America Donna J. Guy
The Historiography of Latin American FamiliesNara Milanich
The New Economic History of Latin America: Evolution and Recent ContributionsJohn H. Coatsworth and William R. Summerhill
Disease, Medicine, and HealthDiego Armus and Adrián López Denis
Popular Religion in Latin American HistoriographyReinaldo L. Román and Pamela Voekel
End Matter
- Selected Bibliography
- Index

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