拉丁美洲研究最新文献

{"title":"Hugo Cerón-Anaya, Privilege at Play: Class, Race, Gender, and Golf in Mexico Oxford University Press, 2019, pp. xii + 217","authors":"Alice Krozer","doi":"10.1017/s0022216x23000603","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022216x23000603","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51630,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56672935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sarah Walsh, The Religion of Life: Eugenics, Race, and Catholicism in Chile University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022, pp. x + 234","authors":"Marcelo Sánchez Delgado","doi":"10.1017/s0022216x2300055x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022216x2300055x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51630,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47802625","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Isabel Story, Soviet Influence on Cuban Culture, 1961–1987: When the Soviets Came to Stay Lexington, 2020, pp. xiii + 331","authors":"Aidan Ratchford","doi":"10.1017/S0022216X23000573","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022216X23000573","url":null,"abstract":"Most studies of New Christians and crypto-Jewish families during the colonial period pay attention to the evidence of hidden religious practices and to the personal and professional networks of New Christians and alleged crypto-Jews. However, primary sources created by the Tribunal of the Inquisition do not always provide further details, which is why the scholarship always seems to be scratching the surface. By combining multiple sources, a large but clearly defined set of historical subjects, and following them for around a century, Gitlitz can use a very close lens. In addition to the discussion about commercial activities and hidden Jewish practices, he was able to identify different levels of adherence to such practices within extended families, including how marriage strategies affected the preservation of crypto-Jewish circles. In other words, the author explores how different degrees of endogamic (between New Christians and potential crypto-Jews) and exogamic marriages (with an Old Christian spouse) affected the preservation of crypto-Jewish circles. He was even able to include information about unhappy marriages and divorce as related to hidden religious practices. Other issues studied in the book include how a clandestine religious practice differed if sustained at the individual level or as a collective practice. Finally, he can also follow up what happened to them after the resolution of the trials of faith, explain what happened to confiscated properties, and to children placed in foster homes after imprisonment. On the other hand, an aspect that could have been expanded is the historiographical discussion. The book analyses individuals that have already been studied by other authors (such as Eva Uchmany and Nathan Wachtel, whom Gitlitz abundantly cites), although in a different scale of analysis. While Gitlitz expands and contextualises the information, I think he could have been more specific in the discussion about how his work relates to that of these authors and how understanding the extended families improves the previous work done on these individuals. Despite this minor critique, I think Gitlitz wrote a phenomenal book that will be very useful for scholars and students interested in the topic.","PeriodicalId":51630,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43298208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Gustavo A. Flores-Macías, Contemporary State Building: Elite Taxation and Public Safety in Latin America Cambridge University Press, 2022, pp. xiv + 205","authors":"Gabriel Ondetti","doi":"10.1017/S0022216X23000470","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022216X23000470","url":null,"abstract":"of","PeriodicalId":51630,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43611283","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Harnessing ‘Wasted’ Waters: Conservation, Hydropower and the Origins of Chile's National Electrification Plan","authors":"Peter B. de Montmollin","doi":"10.1017/S0022216X23000299","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022216X23000299","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article examines the origins of national electrification in Chile, situating its technocratic promoters within a broad trend – unfolding across Latin America – toward the ‘rational’ management and conservation of natural resources by the state. It surveys the early history of Chilean electrification (1890s–1940s) to show how conservationist thinking flowed through discussions and debates among engineers about the proper uses of the country's waters. These ideas eventually shaped the 1943 national electrification plan, which focused on hydropower. The article sheds new light on the history of Chile's technocracy, the relationship between perceptions of the environment and development planning, and the political and economic debates over national electrification. It also shows how the conservationist dilemma of using versus preserving natural resources operated within a utilitarian and highly technical framework for thinking about nature's bounty. The article thus contributes to recent historical scholarship on conservation and environmental technocrats in Latin America.","PeriodicalId":51630,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46551640","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mariela Noles Cotito (ed.), Reflexiones sobre el Perú: Más allá del Bicentenario Fondo Editorial, Universidad del Pacífico, 2022, pp. 468","authors":"Mercedes Crisóstomo","doi":"10.1017/s0022216x23000500","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022216x23000500","url":null,"abstract":"An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.","PeriodicalId":51630,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135338089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Katerina Hatzikidi and Eduardo Dullo (eds.), A Horizon of (Im)possibilities: A Chronicle of Brazil's Conservative Turn University of London Press, 2021, pp. xxii + 228","authors":"Odilon Caldeira Neto","doi":"10.1017/s0022216x23000494","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022216x23000494","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51630,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46102623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Germán Vergara, Fueling Mexico: Energy and Environment, 1850–1950 Cambridge University Press, 2021, pp. xii + 322","authors":"H. Gasperin","doi":"10.1017/S0022216X23000524","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022216X23000524","url":null,"abstract":"itical and economic domains, changes to political institutions are needed that can enhance the likelihood of strategic and effective economic policy. Until then, the incentives toward parochialism, oligopolistic firm structures and the continued use of the developmentalist toolkit are likely to continue to drag down any attempt to achieve a more satisfying economic take-off. Lastly, the book brings important theoretical and empirical contributions to not only those studying Brazil but, more broadly, those interested in the political economy of non-Western countries and the possibilities of reforms that would overcome long-standing hurdles to economic (and democratic) progress.","PeriodicalId":51630,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44562771","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sarah Foss, On Our Own Terms: Development and Indigeneity in Cold War Guatemala University of North Carolina Press, 2022, pp. xvi + 316","authors":"Nicholas Copeland","doi":"10.1017/S0022216X23000536","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022216X23000536","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51630,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41680815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"David M. Gitlitz, Living in Silverado: Secret Jews in the Silver Mining Towns of Colonial Mexico University of New Mexico Press, 2019, pp. xii + 300","authors":"Ana E. Schaposchnik","doi":"10.1017/s0022216x23000561","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022216x23000561","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51630,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47802253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}