Colombian Youth and Educational Bureaucracies in Ecuador
A review of The Refugee Label: Mapping the Trajectories of Colombian Youth and Families through Educational Bureaucracies in Ecuador by Diana Rodríguez Gómez Rodriguez’s dissertation…
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Public Health and Citizenship in Colombia, 1930-1940
A review of Curing a Sick Nation: Public Health and Citizenship in Colombia, 1930-1940 by Hanni Jalil In 1930, Colombia entered a new period of…
The Spanish Imperial Archives
Rethinking The Spanish Imperial Archives There are manifold challenges a scholar faces when studying the political consequences of the intense worldwide mobility of the seventeenth-century…
Gay Poetics in Post-WWII U. S.
A review of Homosexuality Is A Poem: How Gay Poets Remodeled The Lyric, Community And The Ideology Of Sex To Theorize A Gay Poetic, by…
Social Difference and Culinary Education in Peru
A review of The Taste of Distinction: Culinary Education and the Production of Social Difference in Lima, Peru, by Amy Lasater-Wille The thesis illustrates how…
Queer Marronage and Caribbean Writing
A review of Queer Marronage and Caribbean Writing, by Ronald Bancroft Cummings. Traditionally, marronage is the slave’s flight from the plantation to communities built in…
Supersized Christianity: Protestant Megachurches in America
A review of Supersized Christianity: The Origins and Consequences of Protestant Megachurches in America, by David Edwin Eagle. Megachurches are one of the most visible…
Partisan Banking and the Emergence of Free Banking in early 19th-cent Massachusetts
A review of From Partisan Banking to Open Access: A Study on the Emergence of Free Banking in Early Nineteenth-Century Massachusetts, by Qian Lu. How…
Peruvian Agrarian Reform, 1968–1975
A review of Representations of the Peruvian Agrarian Reform, 1968–1975, by Anna Cant. More than four decades on, the Peruvian agrarian reform of 1969 remains…
Marine Insurance, Governance, and the Early American State
A review of Underwritten States: Marine Insurance and the Making of Bodies Politic in America, 1622-1815, by Hannah Atlee Farber. Marine insurance companies played a…