Table of Contents
Thematic Index
Preface
Introduction: “Doing” Latin American History in the Age of Nation States
Maps
Section I: The Age of Transformation and Revolt, 1780-1825
Introduction to Section
1) Father José María Morelos and Visions of Mexican Independence, Erin E. O’Connor, Bridgewater State College
2) The Many Views of Simón Bolivar, Erin E. O’Connor, Bridgewater State College
3) Forging a Guerrilla Republic, Javier F. Marión, Emmanuel College, Boston
4) Slavery, Race, and Citizenship in the Empire of Brazil: Debates in the Constituent Assembly of 1823, Kirsten Schultz, Seton Hall University
Section II: Nineteenth-Century Elite Views of the Nation
Introduction to Section
5) Argentine Domingo Faustino Sarmiento’s Views on Civilization and Barbarism, Erin E. O’Connor, Bridgewater State College
6) Citizenship through Marriage: De Facto Naturalization in 1840s El Salvador, Jordana Dym, Skidmore College
7) Liberalism and its Limits: Guillermo Prieto on Patriarchy, Politics, and Provincial Peoples, John Tutino, Georgetown University
8) Marriage Laws and Nation in Ecuador, 1860-1911, Erin E. O’Connor, Bridgewater State College
9) Debating the “Free Womb” Law in Brazil, 1871, Erin E. O’Connor, Bridgewater State College
Section III: Ordinary People and State Officials in the Nineteenth Century
Introduction to Section
10) Invoking the State’s Support: Estranged Spouses, In-laws and Justices of the Peace in Peru, Tanja Christiansen, Independent Scholar
11) The Death of Francisco Bravo: Marriage, Violence, and Indians in Nineteenth-Century Ecuador, Erin E. O’Connor, Bridgewater State College
12) Minors, Marriage, and the State: “Habilitación de edad” in Nineteenth-Century Mexico, Daniel Haworth, University of Houston-Clear Lake
13) Memories of Rebellion and Subjugation in Southern Chile, Joanna Crow, University of Bristol
Section IV: Changing notions of Race, Gender, and Nation, ca. 1900-1950
Introduction to Section
14) José Martí and Gilberto Freyre Claim “Raceless Nationalism” in Cuba and Brazil, Erin E. O’Connor, Bridgewater State College
15) We Must Civilize Our Cayapa: Padre Antonio Metalli’s Assessment of Race and Gender in Coastal Ecuador, Nicola Foote, Florida Gulf Coast University
16) Peasants, Gender, and the Mexican Revolutionary Conflict, Erin E. O’Connor, Bridgewater State College
17) “Bettering the Tarahumara Race:” Indigenismo in Mexico, 1906-1945, Julia Cummings O’Hara, Xavier University
18) Rescuing the Sacred Mission of Motherhood: Brazil’s Campaign for Healthy Babies and Educated Mothers, Okeizi Otovo, University of Vermont
Section V: Women’s Struggles with Gender Conformity in the Twentieth Century
Introduction to Section
19) Maria Lacerda de Moura Advocates Women’s Self-Realization Through Free Love and Conscientious Maternity, Susan Besse, City University of New York
20) Eva Perón’s Views of Women and Society in Argentina, Erin E. O’Connor, Bridgewater State College
21) Gender and Socialism in Cuba, Erin E. O’Connor, Bridgewater State College
22) A Bolivian Tin Miner’s Wife Goes to the International Women’s Tribunal in 1975, Erin E. O’Connor, Bridgewater State College
Section VI: Foundations of Modern Indigenous Movements
Introduction to Section
23) Socialism and Indigenous Rights in Allende’s Chile, Joanna Crow, University of Bristol
24) Indigenous Integration and Legal Changes in Paraguay, René Harder Horst, Appalachian State University
25) For Land and Dignity: Zapatista Goals in Mexico in the 1990s, Erin E. O’Connor, Bridgewater State College
26) International Indigenous Alliances for Global Justice, Marc Becker, Truman State University
Section VII: Power and Politics at the Transition into the Twenty-First Century
Introduction to Section
27) Rigoberta Menchú Tum: From Indigenous Peasant to Nobel Laureate, Erin O’Connor, Bridgewater State College
28) An Afro-Brazilian Activist Advances from the Favela to the Senate, Leo J. Garofalo, Connecticut College
29) Verónica Michelle Bachelet Jeria: Chile’s First Woman President, Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt, University of Maryland
30) “We Are all Presidents:” Evo Morales and the Challenges of an Indigenous-Popular Government in Bolivia (2006), José Antonio Lucero, University of Washington
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