Book List for Modern Latin America Field with Sidney Chalhoub

Survey

  1. Chasteen, John Charles. Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America (2011)

Slavery, Abolition, and their Legacies

  1. Frazier, E. Franklin. “The Negro Family in Bahia, Brazil.” American Sociological Review 7, no 4. (August, 1942): 465-478.
  2. Herskovits, Melville J. “The Negro in Bahia, Brazil: A Problem in Method.” American Sociological Review 8, no. 4 (1943): 394–404.
  3. de la Fuente, Alejandro. A Nation for All: Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Cuba. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.
  4. Andrews, George Reid. Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
  5. Scott, Rebecca J. Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery.Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005.
  6. Cowling, Camillia. Conceiving Freedom: Women of Color, Gender and the Abolition of Slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2013.
  7. Reis, João. Divining Slavery and Freedom: The Story of Domingos Sodré, An African Priest in Nineteenth Century Brazil. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
  8. Weinstein, Barbara. The Color of Modernity: São Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil. Durham: Duke University Press, 2015.
  9. Fraga, Walter. Crossroads of Freedom: Slaves and Freed People in Bahia, Brazil, 1870-1910, Duke University Press, 2016.

Science, Medicine, and Modernity

  1. Stepan, Nancy. The Hour of Eugenics: Race, Gender, and Nation in Latin America. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1991.
  2. Guy, Donna J. Sex & Danger in Buenos Aires: Prostitution, Family and Nation in Argentina. Lincoln, Neb.: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1995.
  3. Chalhoub, Sidney. Cidade febril: cortic̦os e epidemias na Corte imperial. São Paulo: Companhia das letras, 1996.
  4. Green, James Naylor. Beyond Carnival: Male Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century Brazil. Worlds of Desire. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.
  5. Corrales, Javier and Mario Pecheny. The Politics of Sexuality in Latin America: A Reader on GLBT Rights. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010.
  6. Javier Corrales and Mario Pecheny, “Introduction: The Comparative Politics of Sexuality in Latin America”
  7. Pablo Ben, “Male Same-Sex Sexuality and the Argentine State, 1880-1930” (2009)
  8. Stephen O. Murray, “Mexico” (2004)
  9. Emilio Bejel, “Cuban CondemNation of Queer Bodies” (2000)
  10. Roger Raupp Rios, “Sexual Rights of Gays, lesbians, and Transgender Persons in Latin America: A Judge’s View”
  11. Otovo, Okezi T. Progressive Mothers, Better Babies: Race, Public Health, and the State in Brazil, 1850-1945. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2016

State Formation and Political Struggle

  1. Joseph, Gilbert M., and Daniel Nugent, eds. Everyday Forms of State Formation: Revolution and the Negotiation of Rule in Modern Mexico. Durham: Duke University Press, 1994.
  2. Walker, Charles. Smoldering Ashes: Cuzco and the Creation of Republican Peru, 1780-1940 (1999).
  3. Drake, Paul W. Between Tyranny and Anarchy: A History of Democracy in Latin America, 1800-2006. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009.
  4. Healey, Mark. The Ruins of the New Argentina: Peronism and the Remaking of San Juan after the 1944 Earthquake. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011.

Citizenship and Identity

  1. Mallon, Florencia. “The Promise and Dilemma of Subaltern Studies: Perspectives from Latin American History,” American Historical Review 99:5 (1994).
  2. Kale, Madhavi. Fragments of Empire: Capital, Slavery, and Indian Indentured Labor Migration in the British Caribbean. Critical Histories. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998.
  3. Wucker, Michele. Why the Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians, and the Struggle for Hispaniola. New York: Hill and Wang, 1999.
  4. de la Cadena, Marisol. Indigenous Mestizos: The Politics of Race and Culture in Cuzco, Peru, 1919-1991 (2000).
  5. Chambers, Sarah C. “Republican Friendship: Manuela Sáenz Writes Women into the Nation, 1835–1856.” Hispanic American Historical Review 81(2) (May 2001).
  6. Lone, Stewart. The Japanese Community in Brazil, 1908-1940: Between Samurai and Carnival. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York: Palgrave, 2001.
  7. Hu-Dehart, Evelyn. “Huagong and Huashang: The Chinese as Laborers and Merchants in Latin America and the Caribbean.” Amerasia Journal 28, no. 2 (2002): 63–91.
  8. Larson, Brooke. Trials of Nation-Making: Liberalism, Race, and Ethnicity in the Andes, 1810-1910. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
  9. Yashar, Deborah. Contesting Citizenship in Latin America: The Rise of Indigenous Movements and the Postliberal Challenge (2005).
  10. Fischer, Brodwyn. A Poverty of Rights: Citizenship and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Rio de Janeiro. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010.
  11. Flores Galindo, Carlos. In Search of an Inca: Identity and Utopia in the Andes. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
  12. Fabricant, Nicole. Mobilizing Bolivia's Displaced: Indigenous Politics and the Struggle over Land. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
  13. Chambers, Sarah C. Families in War and Peace: Chile from Colony to Nation. Durham ; London: Duke University Press, 2015.

Environmental Politics and Economic Interactions

  1. Faletto, Enzo and Fernando Henrique Cardoso. Dependency and Development in Latin America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979.
  2. Mintz, Sidney. Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History. New York: Penguin Books, 1986.
  3. Dean, Warren. With Broadax and Firebrand: The Destruction of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.
  4. Topik, Steven, Carlos Marichal, and Zephyr Frank, eds. From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the Global Economy, 1500-2000. 2006.
  5. Introduction: Commodity Chains in Theory and in Latin American History by Steven Topik, Carlos Marichal, and Zephyr Frank
  6. The Spanish-American Silver Peso: Export Commodity and Global Money of the Ancien Regime, 1550-1800 by Carlos Marichal
  7. Trade Regimes and the International Sugar Market, 1850-1980: Protectionism, Subsidies, and Regulation by Horacio Crespo
  8. Brazil in the International Rubber Trade, 1870-1930 by Zephyr Frank and Aldo Musacchio
  9. Gootenberg, Paul. Andean Cocaine: The Making of a Global Drug. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008.
  10. Grandin, Greg. Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2009.
  11. Tinker Salas, Miguel. The Enduring Legacy: Oil, Culture, and Society in Venezuela. Durham: Duke University Press, 2009.

Law, Honor, and Crime

  1. Buffington, Robert. Criminal and Citizen in Modern Mexico. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000.
  2. Salvatore, Ricardo, Carlos Aguirre, and Gilbert Joseph, eds. Crime and Punishment in Latin America: Law and Society Since Late Colonial Times. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001.
  3. Carlos Aguirre and Ricardo D. Salvatore, “Introduction: Writing the History of Law, Crime, and Punishment in Latin America”
  4. Christina Rivera-Garza, “The Criminalization of the Syphilitic Body: Prostitutes, Health Crimes, and Society in Mexico City, 1867-1930”
  5. Carlos Aguirre, “Disputed Views of Incarceration in Lima, 1890-1930: The Prisoners’ Agenda for Prison Reform”
  6. Lila M. Caimari, “Remembering Freedom: Life as Seen From the Prison Cell (Buenos Aires Province, 1930-1950)”
  7. Christiansen, Tanja Katherine. Disobedience, Slander, Seduction, and Assault: Women and Men in Cajamarca, Peru, 1862-1900. 1st ed. Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series, bk. 8. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2004.
  8. Caulfield, Sueann, ed. Honor, Status, and Law in Modern Latin America. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005.
  9. Lara Putnam, Sarah C. Chambers & Sueann Caulfield – “Introduction: Transformations in Honor, Status, and Law over the Long Nineteenth Century”
  10. Sarah C. Chambers, “Private Crimes, Public Order: Honor, Gender, and the Law in Early Republican Peru”
  11. Sidney Chalhoub, “Interpreting Machado de Assis: Paternalism, Slavery, and the Free Womb Law”
  12. Keila Grinberg, “Slavery, Liberalism, and Civil Law: Definitions of Status and Citizenship in the Elaboration of the Brazilian Civil Code (1855-1916)”
  13. Laura Gotkowitz, “Trading Insults: Honor, Violence, and the Gendered Culture of Commerce in Cochabamba, Bolivia, 1870s-1950s”
  14. Sueann Caulfield, “The Changing Politics of Freedom and Virginity in Rio de Janeiro, 1920-1940”
  15. Lorca, Arnulf Becker. “International Law in Latin America or Latin American International Law? Rise, Fall, and Retrieval of a Tradition of Legal Thinking and Political imagination.(Symposium: Comparative Visions of Global Public Order, Part 2).” Harvard International Law Journal 47, no. 1 (2006): 283–305.
  16. Mirow, Matthew C. Latin American Law: A History of Private Law and Institutions in Spanish America. 1st ed. Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 2004.
  17. Pereira, Anthony W. Political (In)justice: Authoritarianism and the Rule of Law in Brazil, Chile, and Argentina. Pitt Latin American Series. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005.

Cold War Ideology, Politics, and Social Movements

  1. Gutiérrez, Gustavo. A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1973.
  2. Winn, Peter. Weavers of Revolution: The Yarur Workers and Chile’s Road to Socialism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.
  3. Grandin, Greg. The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.
  4. Smith, Calvin. Revolution, Revival, and Religious Conflict in Sandinista Nicaragua. Boston: Brill, 2007.
  5. Joseph, Gilbert M., and Daniela Spenser, eds. In From the Cold: Latin America’s New Encounter with the Cold War. Durham: Duke University, 2008.
  6. Gil Joseph, “What We Now Know and Should Know: Bringing Latin America More Meaningfully into Cold War Studies”
  7. Ariel C. Armony, “Transnationalizing the DIrty War: Argentina in Central America”
  8. Steven J. Bachelor, “Miracle on Ice: Industrial Workers and the Promise of Americanization in Cold War Mexico”
  9. Victoria Langland, “Birth Control Pills and Molotov Cocktails: Reading Sex and Revolution in 1968 Brazil”
  10. Konefal, Betsy. For Every Indio Who Falls: A History of Maya Activism in Guatemala, 1960-1990. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2010.
  11. Degregori, Carlos Iván. How Difficult It Is to Be God: Shining Path’s Politics of War in Peru, 1980-1999. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2012.
  12. Guerra, Lillian. Visions of Power in Cuba: Revolution, Redemption, and Resistance, 1959-1971. Envisioning Cuba. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
  13. Cannon, Barry. The Right in Latin America: Elite Power, Hegemony, and the Struggle for the State. Routledge, 2016.

Memory and Reckoning in the Post-Cold War Period

  1. Trouillot, Michel Rolph. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History. Boston: Beacon Press, 1995.
  2. Feitlowitz, Marguerite. A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
  3. Jelin, Elizabeth. State Repression and the Labors of Memory. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003.
  4. Stern, Steve J. Remembering Pinochet’s Chile: On the Eve of London 1998. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004.
  5. Fobear, Katherine. “Queering Truth Commissions.” Journal of Human Rights Practice 6, no. 1 (2014): 51–68.
  6. Weld, Kirsten. Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala. Durham: Duke University Press, 2014.