Latin American Studies - Oxford Bibliographies
16th-Century New Spain
Matthew Restall
Subject: Latin American Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
16th-Century New Spain Introduction The 16th century was a period of dramatic change in Mesoamerica. Beginning with first contacts in the 1510s...
Abolition
Christopher Schmidt-Nowara
Subject: Latin American Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Abolition Introduction The abolition of slavery in Latin America took place between the Wars of Independence of the 1810s and 1820s and the 188...
Andean Contributions to Rethinking the State and the Nation
Marc Becker
Subject: Latin American Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Andean Contributions to Rethinking the State and the Nation Introduction The Andean region of South America is alternatively understood as a ge...
Antislavery Narratives
William Luis
Subject: Latin American Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Antislavery Narratives Introduction The antislavery narratives refer to a group of works written in Cuba during the late 1830s under the tutela...
Asian Art and Its Impact in the Americas, 1565–1840
Dennis Carr
Subject: Latin American Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Asian Art and Its Impact in the Americas, 1565–1840 Introduction Between 1565 and 1815, the Spanish viceroyalties of New Spain and Peru import...
Asian-Peruvian Literature
Ignacio López-Calvo
Subject: Latin American Studies »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
Asian-Peruvian Literature Introduction In the early 21st century most people of Asian descent in Peru are of Chinese, Japanese, or Korean orig...
Bello, Andrés
Iván Jaksic
Subject: Latin American Studies »
Date Added: 2012-10-25
Andrés Bello Introduction Andrés Bello (b. 1781–d. 1865) is widely recognized as a leading Latin American intellectual whose life spanned the ...
Black Experience in Colonial Latin America, The
Ben Vinson
Subject: Latin American Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
The Black Experience in Colonial Latin America Introduction Between the 1490s and the 1850s, Latin America, including the Spanish-speaking Cari...
Black Experience in Modern Latin America, The
Ben Vinson
Subject: Latin American Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
The Black Experience in Modern Latin America Introduction The concept of race has been profoundly important to the development of Latin America...
Borderlands in Latin America, Conquest of
J. Michael Francis
Subject: Latin American Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Conquest of Borderlands in Latin America Introduction The Spanish Borderlands occupy a vibrant, though relatively recent, field of historical i...
Bourbon Reforms, The
Kenneth J. Andrien
Subject: Latin American Studies »
Date Added: 2012-10-25
The Bourbon Reforms Introduction After the Spanish Bourbon King Philip V (b. 1700–1746) acceded to the throne, he and his successors, Ferdinan...
Cárdenas and Cardenismo
Benjamin T. Smith
Subject: Latin American Studies »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
Cárdenas and Cardenismo Introduction The presidency of Lázaro Cárdenas was characterized by far-reaching socioeconomic, political, and cultura...
Caribbean Philosophical Association, The
Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Lewis Gordon
Subject: Latin American Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
The Caribbean Philosophical Association Introduction The Caribbean Philosophical Association (CPA) is an organization of scholars and lay-intel...
Caste War of Yucatán, The
Terry Rugeley
Subject: Latin American Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
The Caste War of Yucatán Introduction On 30 July 1847 an armed group of Maya peasants under the leadership of one Cecilio Chi entered the easte...
Cinema, Latin American
Maria Helena Rueda
Subject: Latin American Studies »
Date Added: 2012-12-19
Latin American Cinema Introduction Moving pictures arrived in Latin America soon after the Lumière Brothers created their first projection in ...
Colonial Central America
David Carey
Subject: Latin American Studies »
Date Added: 2012-11-21
Colonial Central America Introduction Throughout the colonial period, Central America existed in the shadow of Mexico. The Spanish Empire’s pr...
Contemporary Maya, The
Paul Eiss
Subject: Latin American Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
The Contemporary Maya Introduction Any consideration of the subject of the “contemporary Maya” must begin by recognizing that the people groupe...
Development of Painting in Peru, 1520–1820, The
Maya Stanfield-Mazzi
Subject: Latin American Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
The Development of Painting in Peru, 1520–1820 Introduction The artistic traditions of Peru were transformed after the Spanish conquest of the ...
Enlightenment and its Visual Manifestations in Spanish America, The
Daniela Bleichmar
Subject: Latin American Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
The Enlightenment and its Visual Manifestations in Spanish America Introduction The Spanish American Enlightenment is loosely dated as the peri...
Era of Porfirio Díaz, 1876–1911, The
William Beezley
Subject: Latin American Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
The Era of Porfirio Díaz, 1876–1911 Introduction Porfirio Díaz (b. 1830–d. 1915) had a brilliant military career that included participating in...
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