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Getting high: marijuana in world history
In: Exploring world history
"Historian John Chasteen traces the global history of marijuana, exploring its rich heritage with captivating insight. Among the first domesticated plants, only infrequently has it been used as a recreational drug. Instead, there is a vibrant spiritual dimension to its long history that has been continually ignored"--
Héroes a caballo: los hermanos Saravia y su frontera insurgente
In: Biografías Aguilar
Will Fowler, Latin America, 1800–2000 (London: Arnold, and New York: Oxford University Press Inc., Modern History for Modern Languages Series, 2002), pp. xx+170, £40.00, £12.99 pb
In: Journal of Latin American studies, Band 35, Heft 3, S. 629-630
ISSN: 1469-767X
Will Fowler, Latin America, 1800-2000 (London: Arnold, and New York: Oxford University Press Inc., Modern History for Modern Languages Series, 2002), pp. xx+170, (GBP)40.00, (GBP)12.99 pb
In: Journal of Latin American studies, Band 35, Heft 3, S. 629
ISSN: 0022-216X
Stephen Stuempfle, The Steelband Movement: The Forging of a National Art in Trinidad and Tobago (Philadelphia PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996), pp. xx + 287, £36.95, £15.95 pb
In: Journal of Latin American studies, Band 29, Heft 2, S. 495-548
ISSN: 1469-767X
Ruth Glasser, My Music is My Flag: Puerto Rican Musicians and their New York Communities, 1917–1940 (Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 1995), pp. xxiv + 253
In: Journal of Latin American studies, Band 28, Heft 1, S. 265-266
ISSN: 1469-767X
The Prehistory of Samba: Carnival Dancing in Rio de Janeiro, 1840–1917
In: Journal of Latin American studies, Band 28, Heft 1, S. 29-47
ISSN: 1469-767X
AbstractRio's pre-Lenten carnival and its Afro-Brazilian dance, samba, have been symbols of Brazilian identity since the 1930s. This article explores the choreographical antecedents of samba, before the crystallisation of the modern dance genre with that name, highlighting the importance of earlier social dances in the evolution of the twentieth-century symbol. It traces the development of carnival dancing in Rio de Janeiro from the time when few danced, through the long reign of the polka, to the emergence of generalised carnival street dancing around 1889. A modified view of the roots of samba has interesting implications for on-going debates on the social meaning of Brazilian carnival.
The Prehistory of Samba: Carnival Dancing in Rio de Janeiro, 1840-1917
In: Journal of Latin American studies, Band 28, Heft 1, S. 29-48
ISSN: 0022-216X
My Music Is My Flag: Puerto Rican Musicians and Their New York Communities, 1917-1940
In: Journal of Latin American studies, Band 28, Heft 1, S. 265-266
ISSN: 0022-216X
Fighting words: The discourse of insurgency in Latin American history
In: Latin American research review: LARR ; the journal of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Band 28, Heft 3, S. 83-111
ISSN: 0023-8791
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Fighting Words: The Discourse of Insurgency in Latin American History
In: Latin American research review: LARR, Band 28, Heft 3, S. 83-111
ISSN: 1542-4278
"What I suffer is pleasant because it shows that I am putting myself above the run of common men, that I am worthy of my Patria and of you…"Insurgent officer to his wife, 1893The appeal of sacrifice so frequently encountered in expressions of nationalism is an equally familiar theme in the rhetoric of political warfare in Latin America. Stories of political warfare take up a considerable part of Latin American historiography. The intent of this exploratory article is to suggest how the rhetoric and narrative written about nineteenth-century insurgency can be read to illuminate the political history of Latin America. Two South American civil wars of the 1890s constitute the empirical starting point for my speculations, although they are scarcely a convincing sample of the hundreds of insurgencies that have occurred since independence. Consequently, these observations on a Latin American discourse of insurgency must largely be content to ask questions, raise issues, and suggest hypotheses.
The lettered city
In: Post-contemporary interventions
In: Latin America in translation