{"title":"Together Yet Apart. The Institutional Rift Among Lebanese-Muslims in a South American Triple Frontier and Its Origins","authors":"Omri Elmaleh","doi":"10.15460/JBLA.56.143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15460/JBLA.56.143","url":null,"abstract":"On October 1988, the first mosque in the Triple Frontier between Argentina-Brazil-Paraguay was inaugurated. The name given to the mosque rekindled old and modern disputes amongst local Lebanese-Muslims in the region and led to the creation of parallel religious and cultural institutions. Based on oral history and local press, the article illustrates how the inauguration of the mosque and its aftermath reflected an Islamic dissension and Lebanese inter-religious and ethnic tensions that were \"exported\" to the Triple Frontier during the 1980s. The article also argues that the sectarian split among the leadership of the organized community, was not shared by the rank and file and did not reflect their daily practices.","PeriodicalId":52370,"journal":{"name":"Jahrbuch fuer Geschichte Lateinamerikas/Anuario de Historia de Amrica Latina","volume":"40 1","pages":"97-121"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88583554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Augusto Conte diputado. Entre la Democracia Cristiana y el Movimiento de Derechos Humanos","authors":"Mariano Fabris, M. Ferrari","doi":"10.15460/JBLA.56.153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15460/JBLA.56.153","url":null,"abstract":"The article focusses on the performance of the Christian Democrat Augusto Conte during the first years of democratic reconstruction in Argentina. From a microanalytical perspective on an individual scale, it is possible to shed light on the complex network of political-social actors of the early eighties around two central problems of this particular situation: the revision of the dictatorial past and the prosecution of those responsible for the violations of human rights. The follow-up of this trajectory makes it possible to elucidate the scope and limitations faced by this deputy as representative of the human rights movement in Parliament against the government's strategies, the demands and tensions that human rights organizations went through and the conflicts that arose in the Christian Democratic Party in whose name he assumed the position.","PeriodicalId":52370,"journal":{"name":"Jahrbuch fuer Geschichte Lateinamerikas/Anuario de Historia de Amrica Latina","volume":"33 4 1","pages":"396-421"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73006427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Embracing Hugh Blair. Rhetoric, Faith and Citizenship in 19th Century Mexico","authors":"B. Connaughton","doi":"10.15460/JBLA.56.149","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15460/JBLA.56.149","url":null,"abstract":"This is a study of the key role of Hugh Blair, a Scottish Enlightened scholar and minister, in the understanding and teaching of rhetoric in a quarrelsome 19th-Century Mexico. His role as a master of multiple rhetorical forms, including legal prose, literary production and the sermon, emphasized effective communication to a broadening public audience in an age of expanding citizenship. First his Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, and then several selections of his sermons, were introduced in Spanish to the Mexican public. Somewhat surprisingly, his works were highly celebrated and widely recommended, by persons on the whole political spectrum, with virtually no discussion of Blair’s political concerns or religious faith. His approach was useful, it was made clear, in a more fluid society aimed at modernization, but simultaneously contained a top-down view of life in society which seriously restricted sensitivity to the voice of common people. This article discusses his general acclaim and those limitations within the context of local and Atlantic history, taking into account the critical views of some of the numerous authors who have studied Blair’s work and his enormous influence during the 19th century. In the perspectives offered, his impact can be judged more critically in terms of an undoubtedly changing Mexican political culture, but one simultaneously opening and closing admission to effective citizenship.","PeriodicalId":52370,"journal":{"name":"Jahrbuch fuer Geschichte Lateinamerikas/Anuario de Historia de Amrica Latina","volume":"43 1","pages":"319-343"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78712768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"El “escándalo Magnasco”. Denuncia pública y controversias sobre el papel del Congreso en la Argentina del 1900","authors":"Ana Leonor Romero","doi":"10.15460/JBLA.56.147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15460/JBLA.56.147","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyzes the role of scandals as mechanisms for contesting the political power in Argentina at the turn of the century. As political satire in the previous years, the scandal was a way of denouncing the political system, emphasizing what was conceived a violation of social norms by individual politicians in the eyes of the public. During the second administration of Julio A. Roca, the public debate made use of this type of critique and interventions that aimed at different branches of the government. In particular, the text analyzes the accusation of corruption against the Ministry Minister of Justice and Public Instruction Osvaldo Magnasco in June of 1901. Through this case, the article examines how the definition of the politician´s moral character affected the forms of contesting the political system. Also, it considers the ways in which public opinion perceived the role played by legislative and executive power.","PeriodicalId":52370,"journal":{"name":"Jahrbuch fuer Geschichte Lateinamerikas/Anuario de Historia de Amrica Latina","volume":"148 1","pages":"232-254"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86071303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"La caricatura de oposición en los congresos de la época de Juárez, 1861-1872","authors":"I. Arroyo","doi":"10.15460/JBLA.56.146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15460/JBLA.56.146","url":null,"abstract":"The article analyzes cartoons in the opposition press during the government of Benito Juarez (1861-1872). It focuses on two emblematic newspapers with cartoons of the time: La Orquesta and El Padre Cobos. The study argues that the opposition press should be understood as a creator of a collective imaginary – that could be very distant from political realities –, rather than as political player with a real impact in the political thought of the people. In spite of claiming to represent the people, the Mexican political cartoon actually addressed the public sphere of the press and the political class of its time.","PeriodicalId":52370,"journal":{"name":"Jahrbuch fuer Geschichte Lateinamerikas/Anuario de Historia de Amrica Latina","volume":"9 1","pages":"196-231"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84828774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Legitimidades inmanentes: parlamento y esfera pública en Nueva Granada y España","authors":"J. Luengo","doi":"10.15460/JBLA.56.142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15460/JBLA.56.142","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the relationship between parliaments and the public sphere in the Hispanic world during the early nineteenth-century. Scholars tend to interpret the public sphere as a broad communicative space not associated to any particular political institution. In this historiographical context, the role that parliaments played in shaping a new public communicative framework during the revolutionary age needs further attention. By considering legislative bodies in Spain and New Granada between 1810 and 1831, I argue that parliaments function as a body that articulates the public dimension of politics in this period. This interpretation requires considering the inner as well as the outer dimension of the parliamentary institution. While public in the galleries, journalists, and MPs played a fundamental role in shaping the public sphere within the assembly room, they also displayed an intense activity outside parliaments. The space circumventing parliamentary buildings, the role of coffee houses for political discussion, and the centrality of the press will be considered within this analytical framework.","PeriodicalId":52370,"journal":{"name":"Jahrbuch fuer Geschichte Lateinamerikas/Anuario de Historia de Amrica Latina","volume":"7 1","pages":"148-170"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80092954","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Para tales amos, tales criados”. La actividad esclavista de una familia de Arequipa durante el siglo XVIII","authors":"Fernando Calderón Valenzuela","doi":"10.15460/JBLA.56.151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15460/JBLA.56.151","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explains the importance of both slavery and its commercial trends for domestic economy by analyzing the enslaver practices of an elite family. Statistical analysis is used to explore the role slavery played in the socio-economic development of the Tristan family in the 18th century Arequipa. The Tristan family participated in the retail trade of slaves, among other economic activities.","PeriodicalId":52370,"journal":{"name":"Jahrbuch fuer Geschichte Lateinamerikas/Anuario de Historia de Amrica Latina","volume":"40 1","pages":"286-318"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80751032","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Automobilität in Lateinamerika – eine historiographische Analyse","authors":"Mario Peters","doi":"10.15460/JBLA.56.152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15460/JBLA.56.152","url":null,"abstract":"Although car-ownership matters to many Latin Americans and cars are nearly omnipresent in daily life in Latin American societies, very little is known about important aspects of the social and cultural histories of automobility in Latin America. However, in the last ten years, several historians have begun to approach the meanings of automobility in Latin American countries. This trend is closely connected to recent developments and new approaches in the international research on mobility, the latter of which I discuss in the first part of this essay. To proceed, I analyze the state of the art on the history of automobility in Latin America, focusing on the following aspects: the emergence of early Latin American car cultures, car and traffic-related social conflicts, and road building. In the last part I ponder on the question of how future studies might advance the state of research on automobility and offer new perspectives on central themes in Latin American history.Although car-ownership matters to many Latin Americans and cars are nearly omnipresent in daily life in Latin American societies, very little is known about important aspects of the social and cultural histories of automobility in Latin America. However, in the last ten years, several historians have begun to approach the meanings of automobility in Latin American countries. This trend is closely connected to recent developments and new approaches in the international research on mobility, the latter of which I discuss in the first part of this essay. To proceed, I analyze the state of the art on the history of automobility in Latin America, focusing on the following aspects: the emergence of early Latin American car cultures, car and traffic-related social conflicts, and road building. In the last part I ponder on the question of how future studies might advance the state of research on automobility and offer new perspectives on central themes in Latin American history.","PeriodicalId":52370,"journal":{"name":"Jahrbuch fuer Geschichte Lateinamerikas/Anuario de Historia de Amrica Latina","volume":"14 1","pages":"369-395"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86871234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Balloffet, Fernando Camacho Padilla, Jessica Stites Mor
{"title":"Pushing Boundaries. New Directions in Contemporary Latin America-Middle East History","authors":"L. Balloffet, Fernando Camacho Padilla, Jessica Stites Mor","doi":"10.15460/JBLA.56.154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15460/JBLA.56.154","url":null,"abstract":"This dossier addresses some of the lesser-explored historical legacies of the Cold War by delving into the newly emerging landscape of Middle East-Latin American relations of this period. Informing this investigation of geopolitical power and concomitant South-South dialogues that coalesced as part of that Cold War reality, the dossier brings together work that not only transgresses the typical boundaries between area studies of these regions but also pushes for a departure from the way in which Middle East-Latin American relations have often been relegated to and siloed within specific subfields of historical consideration, such as the study of the migration of Arabic-speaking peoples or the field of international relations. The dossier takes advantage of the ability to present several distinctive case studies in order to raise a challenge to historians of this period to broaden their contextualization of the relations between the two regions and to reposition Middle East-Latin American ties within a more complex historical framework of interaction and exchange.","PeriodicalId":52370,"journal":{"name":"Jahrbuch fuer Geschichte Lateinamerikas/Anuario de Historia de Amrica Latina","volume":"144 1","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74246679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"„Das tragischste Kapitel deutscher Wanderungsgeschichte der Nachkriegszeit“: Das Scheitern des deutschen Migrations- und Siedlungsprojekts bei La Serena, Chile, in den 1950er Jahren","authors":"Tomas Villarroel","doi":"10.15460/JBLA.55.74","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15460/JBLA.55.74","url":null,"abstract":"The article presents a failed plan of emigration of German colonists to Chile during the first half of the 50’s. Previous scholarship has explored the organization and development of this agricultural project. Here we add reflection on the ways in which the post-war upheavals, and the problem of European displacements, affected the relation between Germany and Chile during this period. There has been no previous attempt to explain the impact of the cold war on this remote place, but it is worthy of consideration from both the German and Chilean point of view. The project broke down, though, in light of national interests of both states. Even though the soil was bad, President González Videla held fast to the project, given the prestige involved. On the other hand, the workers that had been elected for this purpose were hardly prepared. Problems with the language, inadequate professions, as well as the conduct of the colonists, made the project enormously difficult. It is hard to resist the impression that the German government intended to get rid of a part of its own population coming from the east-European area, which was considered hard to integrate. The return of the expatriates is a significant illustration of the end of long-term circulation between the eastern-European, the western-European, and the transatlantic world, and also of the end of transatlantic European migration to South America.","PeriodicalId":52370,"journal":{"name":"Jahrbuch fuer Geschichte Lateinamerikas/Anuario de Historia de Amrica Latina","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82568150","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}