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Telenovelas and Melodrama in Latin America
Adriana Estill
Subject: Latin American Studies »
Date Added: 2019-01-15
Telenovelas and Melodrama in Latin AmericaIntroductionTelenovelas are a television genre developed and produced originally in Latin America since the ...
Textile Traditions of the Andes
Maya Stanfield-Mazzi
Subject: Latin American Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Textile Traditions of the Andes Introduction The Andean region boasts one of the world’s oldest, most continuous, and best-preserved textile tr...
Tourism in Modern Latin America
Evan Ward
Subject: Latin American Studies »
Date Added: 2021-10-27
Tourism in Modern Latin AmericaIntroductionAside from a handful of travelers (including the intrepid Maria Graham in Brazil and Chile), explorers (lik...
Transculturation and Literature
Luis Duno-Gottberg
Subject: Latin American Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Transculturation and Literature Introduction In 1940, Cuban ethnographer Fernando Ortiz coined the concept of “transculturation” for the sphere...
Trujillo, Rafael
Eric Paul Roorda
Subject: Latin American Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Rafael Trujillo Introduction Rafael Trujillo (b. 24 October 1891–d. 30 May 1961) was the archetypal Latin American dictator. In control of the ...
Tupac Amaru Rebellion, The
Charles F. Walker
Subject: Latin American Studies »
Date Added: 2016-07-27
The Tupac Amaru RebellionIntroductionThe Tupac Amaru Rebellion raged across the Andes from 1780 to 1783. Centered in southern Peru, from Cuzco to Lake...
United States and Castro's Cuba in the Cold War, The
Piero Gleijeses
Subject: Latin American Studies »
Date Added: 2013-07-24
The United States and Castro’s Cuba in the Cold War Introduction President Dwight Eisenhower did not hesitate to recognize the government ...
United States and the Guatemalan Revolution, The
Piero Gleijeses
Subject: Latin American Studies »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
The United States and the Guatemalan Revolution Introduction “It wasn’t a great conspiracy, and it wasn’t a child’s game. We were just a group...
United States Invasion of the Dominican Republic, 1961–1966, The
Piero Gleijeses
Subject: Latin American Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
The United States Invasion of the Dominican Republic, 1961–1966 Introduction On 24 April 1965, young military officers rose in revolt in the Do...
Urban History
Brodwyn Fischer
Subject: Latin American Studies »
Date Added: 2013-08-26
Urban History Introduction Latin American urban history is a capacious field. “Urban history” can refer both to the history of cities and to h...
Urbanization in the 20th Century, Latin America’s
Arturo Almandoz Marte
Subject: Latin American Studies »
Date Added: 2017-05-24
Latin America’s Urbanization in the 20th CenturyIntroductionA demographic, economic, social, cultural, and territorial process, urbanization involves ...
Uruguay
Alex Borucki
Subject: Latin American Studies »
Date Added: 2017-06-27
UruguayIntroductionUruguayans living in the country and abroad have written most of the books listed here. Thus, most of these works are written in Sp...
US–Latin American Relations during the Cold War
Jeffrey F. Taffet, Felipe Loureiro
Subject: Latin American Studies »
Date Added: 2013-08-26
US–Latin American Relations during the Cold WarIntroductionUS involvement in Latin American affairs during the Cold War period was extraordinarily dee...
Vargas, Getúlio
Joel Wolfe
Subject: Latin American Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Getúlio Vargas Introduction Getúlio Dornelles Vargas (b. 1882–d. 1954) was perhaps the single most dominant figure in 20th-century Brazilian po...
Venezuela
Daniel Hellinger
Subject: Latin American Studies »
Date Added: 2019-06-26
VenezuelaIntroductionBefore a succession of violent events that took place between 1989 and 1992, most observers regarded Venezuela as an exceptionall...
Venezuelan Literature
Irina Troconis
Subject: Latin American Studies »
Date Added: 2019-05-29
Venezuelan LiteratureIntroductionThis article presents an overview of some of the most representative and influential writers and works from Venezuela...
Women and Labor in 20th-Century Latin America
Susie Porter
Subject: Latin American Studies »
Date Added: 2014-05-29
Women and Labor in 20th-Century Latin America Introduction A robust field of study emerged in the late 1970s, primarily in the social sciences...
Women in Colonial Latin American History
Susan M. Socolow
Subject: Latin American Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Women in Colonial Latin American History Introduction The history of women in colonial Latin America has been a productive and exciting field ...
Women in Modern Latin American History
Elizabeth Quay Hutchison
Subject: Latin American Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Women in Modern Latin American History Introduction Sources for the study of the history of women in Latin America’s national period grew expon...
Women's Property Rights, Asset Ownership, and Wealth in Latin America
Carmen Diana Deere
Subject: Latin American Studies »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
Women's Property Rights, Asset Ownership, and Wealth in Latin AmericaIntroductionIn the 1970s and 1980s, feminist historians began focusing attention ...
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