Transatlantic Caribbean expands research on the region by focusing on its transatlantic interrelations with North America, Latin America, Europe, and Africa and its long-term exchange of people, practices, and ideas. Based on innovative approaches and rich empirical research from anthropology, history, and literary studies, the essays in this volume discuss border crossings, south-south relations, and diasporas in the arenas of popular culture, religion, and historical memory, as well as in the realms of national and transnational social and political movements. These perspectives...
Transatlantic Caribbean expands research on the region by focusing on its transatlantic interrelations with North America, Latin America, Europ...
The New Ethnic Studies in Latin America aims at going beyond and against much of Jewish Latin American historiography, situating Jewish-Latin Americans in the larger multi-ethnic context of their countries. Senior and junior scholars from various countries joined together to challenge commonly held assumptions, accepted ideas, and stable categories about ethnicity in Latin America in general and Jewish experiences on this continent in particular. This volume brings to the discussions on Jewish life in Latin America less heard voices of women, non-affiliated Jews, and intellectuals....
The New Ethnic Studies in Latin America aims at going beyond and against much of Jewish Latin American historiography, situating Jewish-Latin A...
Unquestionably a watershed year in world history, 1917 not only saw the Russian Revolution and the US entry into World War I, it also marked a foundational moment in determining global political structures for the remaining twentieth century. Yet while contemporaries were cognizant of these global connections, historiography has been largely limited to analysis of the nation-state. A century later, this book discusses the transnational dimension of the numerous upheavals, rebellions, and violent reactions on a global level that began with 1917. Experts from different continents contribute...
Unquestionably a watershed year in world history, 1917 not only saw the Russian Revolution and the US entry into World War I, it also marked a foundat...