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Unlocking the Secrets of the Onion Genome: A Path to Sustainable Onion Production
Authors: Vojnović Đorđe
Published: February 2024

Onion is a vegetable plant with high nutritional and biological value, which is why it is an essential food in the human diet. The annual production of onions in Serbia is about 30 thousand tons, with an increasing tendency to grow. A similar trend is observed worldwide, bearing in mind that every year, it is necessary to produce about 800,000 tons more onions to match the production with the increase in the global population of people on planet Earth.
Promoting Environmental Sustainability: Innovative Project Funded by AP Vojvodina
Authors: Armaković Sanja , Savanović Maria , Bilić Andrijana , Zahović Ida , Dodić Jelena , Trivunović Zorana , Armaković Stevan
Published: February 2024

The Autonomous Province (AP) of Vojvodina in Serbia is blessed with abundant surface water resources yet suffers from significant organic pollution due to inadequate waste management practices. In line with AP Vojvodina’s sustainability strategy, this project focuses on developing innovative technologies for managing industrial waste and removing organic pollutants from water resources. The main objective is to create an efficient and environmentally sustainable solution for integrated industrial effluent management and organic pollutant removal in AP Vojvodina. Specific goals include the development of biotechnological procedures for utilizing industrial effluents in the production of xanthan, biopolymer with potential photocatalytic activity for decomposing organic substances in natural waters. By promoting sustainable materials and technologies, the project aims to advance scientific and technological knowledge in biopolymer production and water purification, fostering regional scientific and industrial growth. The project's outcomes are expected to enhance researchers' visibility, facilitate international cooperation, and contribute to the ecological, economic, and social sustainability of AP Vojvodina.
PENERAPAN MEDIA GAMBAR UNĽUK MENINGKAĽKAN KEĽERAMPILAN MEMBACA PADA PELAJARAN BAHASA INDONESIA SISWA KELAS II SDN CIKUYA 01 KAB.BANDUNG
Authors: Esti Ayu Fatimah  , Undang Sudan  , Arif Muhammad
Published: February 2024

Rendahnya minat siswa teíhadap pelajaían Bahasa Indonesia menyebabkan sebagian besaí siswa kuíang antusias mengikuti pelajaían yang disampaikan oleh guíu, Peningkatan Keteíampilan Membaca Bahasa Indonesia dengan media gambaí adalah upaya guíu untuk meningkatkan minat peseíta didik. Dengan kondisi teísebut guíu beíusaha mempeíbaiki pembelajaían dengan melaksanakan Penelitian Ľindakan Kelas ( PĽK ).Ľujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui peningkatan keteíampilan membaca menggunakan media gambaí pada siswa kelas II SDNCikuya 01 . penelitian menunjukkan bahwa setiap siklus ada kemajuan teíbukti pada siklus peítama minat peseíta didik mencapai 65 % dalam pembelajaían dan peseíta didik yang  tuntas belajaí pada peíbaikan siklus I baíu (42,4%). Pada peíbaikan siklus II teíjadi peningkatan minat yaitu sebanyak (77%).sedangkan hasil belajaí peseíta didik semakin meningkat dengan ketuntasan belajaí mencapai (89,8%). Hal ini membuktikan bahwa melalui media Gambaí peseíta didik dapat memecahkan peímasalahan sendiíi dalam keteíampilan membaca pelajaían Bahasa Indonesia sehingga hasil belajaí siswa meningkat.
Peningkatan Kemampuan Membaca Puisi pada Siswa Kelas VII-B UPT SMP Negeri 1 Tellu Limpoe Kabupaten Sidenreng Rappang dengan Metode Demonstrasi
Authors: Asia
Published: February 2024

Pentingnya kemampuan membaca puisi tidak hanya terkait dengan aspek linguistik semata, tetapi juga membangun apresiasi terhadap seni dan nilai-nilai estetika. Pemilihan metode demonstrasi merupakan tantangan bagi guru. Guru akan menjadi model didepan kelas, dengan demikian guru akan berusaha meningkatkan kualitas diri. Penyajian pembelajaran yang dipersiapkan dengan baik akan mendapat respon dari siswanya. Penelitian dilaksanakan oleh siswa dari kelas VII-B di UPT SMP Negeri 1 Tellu Limpoe, Kabupaten Sidenreng Rappang. Metode penelitian yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah metode analisis statistik deskriptif. Analisis data yang dilakukan menggunakan penelitian tindakan kelas, di mana peneliti mengumpulkan dua jenis data. Pertama, data kuantitatif diperoleh dari hasil prasiklus hingga siklus II. Data kualitatif diperoleh melalui observasi, dokumentasi, dan catatan lapangan. Hasil penelitian menjelaskan bahwa kegiatan pembelajaran Bahasa Indonesia dengan metode demonstrasi efektif dalam meningkatkan kemampuan siswa dalam membaca puisi. Metode demonstrasi sebagai pendekatan yang sangat membantu dalam memfasilitasi pemahaman siswa terhadap materi membaca puisi dalam konteks pembelajaran Bahasa Indonesia. Meskipun demikian, pembelajaran dengan menggunakan metode demonstrasi menuntut persiapan mengajar yang matang dan manajemen waktu serta kelas yang efektif. Hal ini diperlukan untuk mencapai hasil pembelajaran yang optimal pada setiap kegiatan di dalam kelas.
Neoliberalismo y democracia en América Latina: descentralización, ¿el eslabón perdido?
Authors: Gordín Jorge P.
Published: February 2024

La relación entre neoliberalismo y democracia es uno de los temas que más atención ha recibido en las ciencias sociales latinoamericanas en los últimos diez años. Con contadas excepciones, el lector es generalmente enfrentado con dos enfoques básicos: mientras que algunos economistas enfatizan el impacto sectorial regresivo de la aplicación vernácula de políticas económicas de mercado, politólogos y sociólogos tienden a atribuir al neoliberalismo un efecto negativo sobre la consolidación democrática en América Latina, sea en términos de consideraciones institucionales o en términos de sociedad civil.
Construcciones impresas: Panfletos, diarios y revistas en la formación de los estados nacionales en América Latina, 1820-1920. PAULA ALONSO (ed.), Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005.
Authors: Moya José C.
Published: February 2024

This collection brings together thirteen papers presented during an eponymous symposium held at the Universidad de San Andrés in Buenos Aires in May, 2002. Unlike the symposium, which included studies on the United States, the volume restricts itself to Latin America.
Il est Interdit d’Interdire: The Transnational Experience of 1968 in Brazil
Authors: Langland Victoria
Published: February 2024

The second round of the III International Popular Song Festival in Brazil witnessed a now famous confrontation between singer Caetano Veloso and the university student-dominated audience that filled the hall that September 15th, 1968. In the midst of an already chaotic performance, in which Veloso could barely be heard above the students’ boos, jeers and insults, he abruptly stopped singing and used the microphone to instead rebuke the audience, criticizing not simply their behavior, but also their politicized approach to music. Photographs from the event document the sheer quantity of paper balls and other objects lobbed onto the stage, while the live recording of the event (released soon afterward as a single) testifies to the vociferous antagonism expressed from all sides in this unprecedentedly hostile moment.
Im langen Schatten des Nationalsozialismus. Faschistische Bewegungen in Chile zwischen der Weltwirt. MARCUS KLEIN, Frankfurt am Main: Vervuert, 2004.
Authors: Meding Holger M.
Published: February 2024

La teoría y las prácticas socio-políticas del viejo continente han despertado desde siempre una gran fascinación en el pensamiento y accionar latinoamericanos. El iluminismo, positivismo y anarquismo, así como las diferentes variantes del socialismo, han ejercido durante varias décadas fuerte influencia sobre todo en los países receptores de inmigración. Desde finales de la Primera Guerra Mundial, y principalmente junto con las consecuencias de la crisis económica mundial, llegaron al otro lado del Atlántico las ideas más radicales de Europa, el fascismo y el nacionalsocialismo, influyendo en diversos sectores de la vida política.
Market Reform in Society: Post-Crisis Politics and Economic Change in Authoritarian Peru. MOISÉS ARCE, University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005.
Authors: Nudelsman Susana
Published: February 2024

Este libro constituye un aporte sumamente valioso en lo que atañe a las vicisitudes socioeconómicas de las reformas de los años noventa en Perú. La tesis central gira en torno a la idea de que tales reformas han ejercido una considerable influencia a nivel social, reflejando el contenido variable y distribución asimétrica de los costos y beneficios de las políticas implementadas.
Ciudadanía restringida para los territorios nacionales: contradicciones en la consolidación del estado argentino
Authors: Ruffini Martha
Published: February 2024

La actual crisis de representación política de la República Argentina reconoce antecedentes de larga data. No emerge como una crisis coyuntural atípica manifestada abruptamente en los albores del nuevo siglo. Cuando en diciembre del 2001 la coyuntura económica, social e institucional puso de relieve el "cansancio de la democracia" y potenció las representaciones segmentadas, exponentes de los cambios en el repertorio de la acción colectiva, resultó claro que la persistente y terminal crisis del formato de representación política reclamaba transformaciones inmediatas, y que en la implementación sin fisuras del neoliberalismo económico durante la década de 1990, con su correlato de pauperización, desempleo y destrucción del tejido social, podían hallarse las claves explicativas más recientes de este malestar generalizado (Juan Suriano, 2005; Luis Alberto Romero, 2002).
Migratory Psychoanalysis
Authors: Steinberg Michael P.
Published: February 2024

In September 2004 I participated in a conference in La Plata, Argentina, on the topic of "The State and the Politics of Memory: Archives, Museums, and Education." [1] The conference was convened by the Comisión Provincial por la Memoria, an authority commissioned in 2000 by the provincial government of Buenos Aires (whose capital is La Plata) with the task of developing a public and comparative discourse of Vergangenheitsbewaeltigung, or coming to terms with the past. The Argentine past in question is the military regime that held power between 1976 and 1983, unleashing a campaign of state terrorism responsible for the murder of 30,000 citizens, with a severe overrepresentation, in increasing order, of youth, secondary school and university students, and Jews. The city of La Plata boasts an important university; as a result the violence there was especially severe. The Comisión por la Memoria is housed in a former police headquarters known to the citizens of La Plata as a site of torture and other horrors. Its task includes the preservation and dissemination of the archive of the state security forces (DIPBA), containing 3,800,000 files as well as other materials, including, for example, 160 recordings of bugged telephone conversations. [2] To my surprise and, I must confess, to my relief, the large public audience proved quite interested in the topic of my own contribution: discourses and sites of public memory and history in Berlin. As it turns out, a delegation from the Comisión por la Memoria was about to travel to Berlin to consult with analogous scholars and archivists there, specifically with the archivists of the Stasi files.
El final de la Guerra Civil española en la prensa marplatense
Authors: Bocanegra Barbecho Lidia
Published: February 2024

El presente artículo pretende analizar la visión que la prensa de mayor tirada de la ciudad de Mar del Plata ofrece al evento del final de la Guerra Civil española durante la etapa conflictiva de 1939, marcada esta por el inmediato inicio de la Segunda Guerra Mundial.El porqué de la elección de dicha ciudad para llevar a cabo el presente análisis responde a las propias características de su estructura político-social que condicionaron, como se verá, a aquella prensa local en lo referente a la publicación de uno de los argumentos de mayor protagonismo temático como lo fue la mencionada guerra.
The Borderlands of Culture: Américo Paredes and the Transnational Imaginary. RAMÓN SALDÍVAR: Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2006.
Authors: Starling James
Published: February 2024

Américo Paredes (1915-1999) remains a towering figure in Chicano and Borderlands history, and his significant contributions to cultural studies are increasingly recognized in other fields. His 1958 book With His Pistol in His Hand: A Border Ballad and Its Hero challenged historical narratives that had long marginalized ethnic Mexicans in the United States. This work opened the door for scholars to consider previously neglected sources, such as the corrido, in order to arrive at a fuller understanding of the history of the border region.
Power from Experience. Urban Popular Movements in Late Twentieth Century Mexico. PAUL L. HABER: Philadelphia: Pennsylvania University Press, 2006.
Authors: Ofer Inbal
Published: February 2024

Paul Haber's book, Power from Experience, is the result of ten years of extensive field-work within the complex network of political and civic associations in two of Mexico's largest cities: Mexico City and Durango. Combining the richness of oral sources with an acute understanding of theory, this book is situated at the crossroads between contemporary history, anthropology, and the social sciences.
Las grandes empresas no mueren de pie: el (o)caso de SIAM. MARCELO ROUGIER y JORGE SCHVARZER, Buenos Aires: Grupo Editorial Norma, 2006.
Authors: Brennan James
Published: February 2024

SIAM-Di Tella, once Latin America's greatest industrial conglomerate, has long been considered by historians of Argentina to be a company whose fortunes served as a cautionary tale on the country's industrialization. The firm's size and importance were so great that it even merited consideration by an eminent American business historian and an Argentine social scientist in the 1960s, when dependency and modernization theories competed as explanatory paradigms for Latin American underdevelopment. This tension was revealed in their collaboration: Thomas C. Cochran and Rubén Reina, "Capitalism in Argentine Culture: A Study of Torcuato Di Tella and S.I.A.M." Whereas Cochran and Reina tended to celebrate SIAM-Di Tella's accomplishments while also noting its inability to stay competitive at the international level, a new book on the firm's history by Marcelo Rougier and Jorge Schvarzer stresses its failures and inexorable demise, culminating with the company's complete liquidation in 1994 at the height of President Carlos Menem's neo-liberal restructuring program.
Populismo regional y estado en Chile
Authors: Barozet Emmanuelle
Published: February 2024

¿Qué aporte se puede hacer desde Chile al estudio del populismo de hoy? En la larga lista de líderes populistas, Chile pareciera ser un contribuidor muy discreto, sin parangones respecto de otros países del continente. Sin embargo, si se desplaza la mirada desde el nivel nacional hacia el nivel regional y local, no queda ninguna duda de que este particular estilo político tiene aún muchos adeptos en Chile, al tiempo que mantiene, lejos de las cámaras, una relación asistencialista con el Estado, para el beneficio de liderazgos personalistas.
Visions of the Emerald City: Modernity, Tradition, and the Formation of Porfirian Oaxaca, Mexico. MARK OVERMYER-VELÁZQUEZ, Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2006.
Authors: Craib Raymond B.
Published: February 2024

This elegant book addresses a multitude of thorny issues related to Mexican urban history, visual culture, and modernity. The title is particularly apt: from the mental anticipations of Oaxaca's ruling class, through their physical efforts to recreate urban spaces as both legible and aesthetic sites, to the photographic registries of sex workers, the book uses "vision" as an aperture through which to analyze the making (and to a lesser degree the experience) of modernity in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth century Oaxaca City.
From Sovereign Villages to National States. City, State, and Federation in Central America, 1759-1839. JORDANA DYM, Alburquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006.
Authors: Alvarenga Patricia
Published: February 2024

Análisis profuso de las transformaciones políticas que ocurrieron en Centroamérica desde el reformismo borbónico hasta el momento de disolución de la federación centroamericana, este trabajo se centra en el tránsito de sociedades que se fundamentan en el poder municipal hacia la construcción de los estados nacionales.
Sob a mascara do nacionalismo. Autoritarismo e anti-semitismo na Era Vargas (1930-1945)
Authors: TUCCI CARNEIRO M. LUIZA
Published: February 2024

A crise do liberalismo é um dos elementos estruturais do período entre-guerras, particularmente no caso do Brasil que, nos anos 30 assistiu o crescimento de um pensamento autoritário. Governado por Getúlio Vargas, o Brasil deixou-se seduzir pelo fascismo europeu re- legando para um segundo plano sua proposta de "luta pelos idéais democráticos" e de "restauração da pureza do regime republicano para a reconstrução nacional"
Mito da Privatização na América Latina
Authors: SHIDLO GIL
Published: February 2024

A privatização tem muita atenção nos últimos anos, e felete o interesse mundial pela redução do papel do Estado nas economias nacionais, ao mesmo tempo que salienta o ãmbito da propriedade privada e do setor privado. O apêlo crescente de privatização abrange não śo o desejo ideológico de governo mais reduzido como também a confiança num desempenho económico superior do setor privado.
Exilio y política en América Latina: nuevos estudios y avances teóricos
Authors: Roniger Luis , Yankelevich Pablo
Published: February 2024

Estudiar las experiencias de exilio de América Latina requiere de una lecturaatenta a la dinámica de los procesos históricos durante los siglos XIX y XX. Pero, también, estudiar aquellas experiencias es reconocer su pluralidad: no hubo un único tipo de exilio sino una multiplicidad, todos ellos desenvueltos sobre una variedad de motivos y de prácticas políticas y sociales, desplegadas tanto en cada una de las naciones de origen como en aquellas donde encontraron refugio los expatriados. El exilio es dinámico, modulado por el devenir de la acción política, pero también por los procesos de institucionalización, crisis yreformulación de los parámetros de la política latinoamericana.
Escrituras y exilios en América Latina. ADRIANA A. BOCCHINO, et al: Mar del Plata: Estanislao Balder, 2008.
Authors: Friedman Mary Lusky
Published: February 2024

"Toda la literatura argentina del siglo XX ha sido escrita por exiliados,? wrote Juan José Saer in 1997. Though deliberately outrageous, Saer's dictum calls attention to the impressive spate of literature produced by refugees of Argentina's Dirty War. A generation of writers wrenched from their culture and their past, among them Miguel Bonasso, Humberto Costantini, Mempo Giardinelli, Daniel Moyano, Hector Tizón, Luisa Valenzuela and David Viñas, responded in their writings to the situation of exile. It is chiefly this body of texts that led scholars at the Universidad de Mar del Plata, beginning in 2002, to study the interplay of exile and the texts it inspires.
The Politics of Exile in Latin America. MARIO SZNAJDER and LUIS RONIGER: New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Authors: Senkman Leonardo
Published: February 2024

The Poltics of Exile in Latin America de Mario Sznajder y Luis Roniger constituye el primer estudio sistemático que aborda a escala continental el exilio político en América Latina. Impresiona tanto el arco temporal histórico del estudio como el riguroso marco teórico que presenta. Su fecundo abordaje multifocal trasciende enfoques políticos de exclusión que provocó el autoritarismo en un solo país o la biografía historicista de algunos ilustres exiliados. Por primera vez es posible leer una lograda síntesis histórica -desde la época colonial hasta el presente- que contextualiza política y sociológicamente los itinerarios de los exiliados al interior de los países latinoamericanos y los destinos europeos, además de otras latitudes del mundo.
Centralismo y modernización técnica en la reformulación del Estado argentino. El caso provincial santafesino, 1930-1950
Authors: Macor Diana , Bacolla Natacha
Published: February 2024

En el campo historiografico, las imagenes del Estado y su relaci6n con lasociedad han mudado en las ultimas decadas lo suficiente como para inaugurar un nuevo horizonte. Superando la creencia de un siglo XIX liberal que contrastaría con un siglo XX intervencionista, las imágenes contemporáneas destacan mejor que el Estado ha intervenido siempre en la sociedad de una u otra forma. Aunque, para decirlo en la clave de Rosanvallon, tampoco se trata de una cuestión de matices;1 las modificaciones de las relaciones entre Estado y sociedad son mas complejas que eso, más aún en sociedades estructural y socialmente heterogéneas como las latinoamericanas, donde el Estado es la principal fuerza de cohesión.
The Optic of the State: Visuality and Power in Argentina and Brazil. Get PDF JENS ANDERMANN: Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007.
Authors: Schwarcz Lilia Moritz
Published: February 2024

Não é de hoje que se questiona o que se convencionou chamar de "imperialismo das fontes escritas". Cunhada por Jacques Le Goff, a expressão anuncia a antiga proeminência das fontes literárias, fossem elas cartas, atas, livros, testamentos, leis ou decretos. Vinculado a uma historiografia positiva e evenementielle, esse modelo foi vitorioso durante muito tempo e, ademais, símbolo certo de objetividade e boa metodologia.
Cold War in a Hot Zone: The United States Confronts Labor and Independence Struggles in the British West Indies. GERALD HORNE: Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2007.
Authors: Fraser Cary
Published: February 2024

Gerald Horne has written a book dedicated to the exploration of radical politics in the British West Indian colonies in the immediate aftermath of World War II and seeks to illustrate the reasons for the failure of radical elements and groups within the Caribbean Labor Congress to acquire greater influence over the political evolution of the region. It is an ambitious agenda that allows Horne to illustrate the rise of British West Indian-African American solidarities and activisim in the challenge to the politics of white supremacy (segregation) in America and colonialism (in the British West Indies).
Intimate Enemies: Landowners, Power and Violence in Chiapas. AARON BOBROW-STRAIN:Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2007.
Authors: Otero Gerardo
Published: February 2024

The 1994 Chiapas uprising by the Zapatista National Liberation Army in Mexico has produced a massive amount of research and writing about indigenous peoples and their movements. But no book in English has told the story of the ruling class against which the uprising took place. Aaron Bobrow-Strain's Intimate Enemies does an excellent job of filling this gap: he offers a nuanced account of the experiences of the ganaderos or cattle ranchers as they lost their land and their dominant position in the northern region of Chiapas, centered around the town of Chilón.
Fixing Men: Sex, Birth Control, and AIDS in Mexico. MATTHEW GUTMANN; Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.
Authors: Taggart James M.
Published: February 2024

This book argues that all aspects of reproductive health care could be improved with better information about men's sexual behavior. The background to this project is the increasing migration from Oaxaca, Mexico, to the United States where men pick up AIDS. According to official statistics, 3,400 individuals were diagnosed with AIDS in the state of Oaxaca in 2006, but medical personnel estimate the number to be much higher, perhaps as many as 20,000. Moreover, since 1973, the Mexican government has promoted family planning.
Ensino de História e Educação: olhares em convergencia. LUIS FERNANDO CERRI (org.): Ponta Grossa: UEPG, 2007.
Authors: Aguirre Mariela Coudannes
Published: February 2024

La presente compilación difunde la producción del Grupo de Trabajo en Enseñanza de la Historia y Educación vinculado al núcleo regional Paraná de la Asociación Nacional de Profesores Universitarios de Historia de Brasil (ANPUH). La mirada crítica sobre los procesos y productos curriculares atraviesa el volumen.
Latin America and Contemporary Modernity. JOSE MAURÍCIO DOMINGUES, Routledge, 2007.
Authors: Avritzer Leonardo
Published: February 2024

Latin America has passed through huge transformations since the early 1980s. Before that, the region had been run under an industrialization and import substitution program that was successful in many countries. Then in the early eighties, a series of changes began to take place: in most Latin American countries the developmental state collapsed and the foreign debt crisis led the International Money Fund (IMF) and the World Bank to enact stabilization programs that deeply de-regulated the labor markets and the internal markets.
American Empire and the Politics of Meaning. JULIAN GO: Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2008.
Authors: Ninkovich Frank
Published: February 2024

One of the more powerfuljustifications for American imperialism has been the idea of the "civilizingmission" in which liberal democratic values are transferred to pre-modernsocieties. But even if good intentions are granted, the record of culturetransfer has been so poor as to give support to conservative arguments that aforced democratization of culture, as currently being attempted in Iraq, is hopelessfrom the start.
A Revolution for Our Rights: Indigenous Struggles for Land and Justice in Bolivia, 1880-1952. LAURA GOTKOWITZ: Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007.
Authors: Smale Robert L.
Published: February 2024

In this study of Bolivian ruralpolitical and social movements, Laura Gotkowitz seeks to stitch together twodifferent historiographic traditions. The older approach discounts or ignoresrural unrest before the National Revolution of 1952, but acknowledges peasantactivism in the revolution's wake-especially in the department of Cochabamba. A newerinterpretation, known asKatarismo,emphasizes the combative tendencies of Bolivia's Aymara population andstresses the strength and persistence of rural activism in the decades beforethe revolution but generally dismisses the changes of 1952 as cosmetic or evenpernicious.
Ciudadanía y derechos indígenas en América Latina: poblaciones, estados y orden internacional. LAURA GIRAUDO (coord.): Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales: Madrid, 2007.
Authors: Lerner Natan
Published: February 2024

Este libro tiene su origen en las jornadas"Pueblos indígenas de América Latina: Ciudadanía, Constitucionalismo,Derechos", celebrada en octubre de 2006 en el Centro de Estudios Políticos yConstitucionales (CEPC) de Madrid. Tratándose de un libro colectivo -nueveautores-, no ofrece, como reza la presentación de la editora, "un relato homogéneo,sino más bien presenta visiones y lecturas (en ocasiones enfrentadas) desdedistintos ángulos".
Homo Politicus. Manuel Pardo, La Política Peruana y Sus Dilemas, 1871-1878. CARMEN McEVOY: Lima: Instituto Riva Aguero, Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, y Oficina Nacional de Procesos Electorales, 2007.
Authors: Deustua C. José R. R.
Published: February 2024

ManuelPardo was one of the most important statesmen of the nineteenth century inLatin America. His significance for the history of the continent iscomparable to that of Benito Juarez in Mexico,Domingo Sarmiento in Argentinaand, perhaps, Jose Manuel Balmaceda in Chile. He was president of Peru from 1872 to1876, elected after a campaign that somewhat changed Peruvian politics. Pardofounded the Civilista party, which played a tremendous role in the politicalsystem and culture of the country at least until 1919.
Fascismo y nazismo en las letras argentinas. LEONARDO SENKMAN y SAÚL SOSNOWSKI: Buenos Aires: Editorial Lumiere, 2009.
Authors: Ferrero Adrián
Published: February 2024

El presente libro, donde no sólolas cavilaciones trazan una suerte de haz confluyente sino también divergente,solicita una zona de las ciencias sociales que se  proyecta hacia un giro en la tipologíatextual más consuetudinaria. Apela a una hermenéutica aplicada a un corpus tanto bibliográfico, libresco,así como hemerográfico y de fuentes mediáticas, indagando en los núcleos segregadoresde ideología antisemita.
Developing Zapatista Autonomy. Conflict and NGO Involvement in Rebel Chiapas. NIELS BARMEYER: Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press,2009.
Authors: Bermúdez H. Luz del Rocío
Published: February 2024

La cuestión de autonomía, frecuente eimportante en el discurso, estrategias y prácticas del EZLN, ha sido objeto deun sinnúmero de debates políticos e intelectuales en México. Sin embargo, elanálisis de la reivindicación de los indígenas de Chiapas por ejercer suderecho a la autodeterminación se dificulta, entre otros motivos, por eldinamismo de un proceso que está lejos de ser definido, lo cual obliga a evitarjuicios conclusivos prematuros.
Foundational Scenes of Translation
Authors: Waisman Sergio
Published: February 2024

Translation does not usually garner the prominent role it deserves in Argentine literary histories. We maintain, however, that translation has always been at or near the core of Argentine literature. From the end of the colonial period, through the movements of independence and the processes of nation formation in the nineteenth century, through literary movements such as the avant-gardes of the 1920s and 30s, to the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, translation in Argentina has functioned as a dynamic source for founding, developing and expanding its literary tradition. A closer study of scenes of translation in Argentina reveals that the act of translation is constitutive of Argentina's tradition and of the multi-faceted peculiarity of Argentine identity.
Los lugares del saber: Contextos locales y redes transnacionales en la formación del conocimiento moderno. RICARDO D. SALVATORE: Rosario: Beatriz Viterbo Editora, 2007.
Authors: Franco Jean
Published: February 2024

The collection of essays, Los lugares del saber. Contextos locales y redes transnacionales en la formación del conocimiento moderno (Places of Learning: Local Contexts and Transnational Networks in the Formation of Modern Knowledge) edited by Ricardo D. Salvatore, is a praise worthy attempt to break new ground in comparative work and move away from the dichotomies of center/periphery, metropolis/periphery that inevitably stress the uneven production of knowledge and scant the contributions of the local. Another merit of this collection is that it covers the production of knowledge beyond what the editor terms the philosophical in order to concentrate on architecture, paleontology, demographics, and law, as well as on the connections established by diplomacy, translation, expeditions, and letters.
The Cuban Connection: Drug Trafficking, Smuggling, and Gambling in Cuba from the 1920s to the Revolution. EDUARDO SAENZ ROVNER: Translated by Russ Davidson. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2008.
Authors: Román Reinaldo L.
Published: February 2024

The pithy title of Saénz Rovner's2005 book, La conexión cubana, nowavailable in a fine English-language translation by Russ Davidson, alludes tothe famed police thriller involving a heroin shipment on its way fromMarseilles to New York. The reference is apt; much of the study deals with therise of Havana as a transshipment point in drug trafficking networks thatlinked European and Andean middlemen and producers, including some in the portcity of Marseilles, to markets in the United States.
The Indian Militia and Description of the Indies. BERNARDO DE VARGAS MACHUCA: Edited and with an introduction by Kris Lane and translated by Timothy F. Johnson. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008
Authors: Restall Matthew
Published: February 2024

In Madrid, in 1599, a little-known veteran conquistador named Captain Don Bernardo de Vargas Machuca published a manual. In four books, titled Milicia y Descripción de las Indias, or Milicia Indiana, the manual was a guide to fighting native peoples in Spanish America, or "the Indies." Like other books by conquistadors-most, like the narrative of Bernal Díaz del Castillo, more widely read-Vargas Machuca's manual was an extension of the ubiquitous conquistador literary genre of the probanza de mérito, the petitionary record of service.
Dignity and Defiance: Stories from Bolivia's Challenge to Globalization. JIM SHULTZ and MELISSA CRANE DRAPER (eds.): Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008.
Authors: Salmón Josefa
Published: February 2024

Dignity and Defiance. Stories from Bolivia's Challenge to Globalization is a collection of well-written essays and stories that gives a balanced and thoroughreport of Bolivia's problems and the challenges of globalization. It approachesthe various problems from differing and at times opposite perspectives. Thebook also includes valuable new research with testimonies that integrate thisresearch with the voices of those people who participated in and were affectedby the issues. These personal testimonies are woven into the essays and tiethe academic tone with a narrative thread. The powerful essays pull the readerdirectly into the struggles between communities, the government, and corporations,on issues such as water, gas, oil, external debt, and the IMF, World Bankand NGO policies. The structure and organization of each essay gives the wholebook unity, bringing together first-hand information, diverse points of view, andexcellent research.
Indians and Leftists. in the Making of Ecuador's Modern Indigenous Movements. MARC BECKER: Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008
Authors: Rahier Jean Muteba
Published: February 2024

With this book, Marc Becker addresses a number of erroneous assumptions about Indigenous movements in Ecuador. He first takes issue with the belief that Indigenous people put an end to centuries of political passivity with what is often referred to as the first Indigenous levantamiento (uprising) in June 1990, when "indigenous peoples shocked the dominant blanco-mestizo(white) population of Ecuador with a powerful uprising that paralyzed the country for a week" (1). During this uprising they presented to Rodrigo Borja Cevallos, who was then the President from the center-left political party Izquierda Democrática, a list of sixteen demands for cultural, economic, and political rights, insisting that the government address long-standing and unresolved issues of land ownership, education, economic development, and the Indigenous relationship with state structures (1).
Uneven Encounters- Making Race and Nation in Brazil and the United States. MICOL SEIGEL: Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2009.
Authors: Prado Fabricio
Published: February 2024

Race and national identity are dear topics for historians and social scientists of Brazil and the United States. There is a long tradition of academic work that compares the racial and ethnic constructions of the two countries. Micol Seigel’s Uneven Encounters – Making Race and Nation in Brazil and the United States, however, goes beyond examining race and national identity within national borders and comparative analysis. The book focuses on the trans-imperial and trans-national connections between historical agents in Brazil and in the United States.
Democracia violenta, actores sociales y retos políticos
Authors: Langue Frederique
Published: February 2024

Hace unos cuantos años, David Mares publicó un libro de sugerente título:Violent Peace (Columbia University Press 2001). El subtitulo, "MilitarizedInterstate Bargaining in Latin America", apuntaba sin embargo a una realidad predominante en la década anterior y algo distinta a la que asoma en los tres libros considerados en este ensayo, realidad social que ha ido cobrando precisamente una expresión más radical en el transcurso de estos últimos años. De acuerdo con los tres autores, son en efecto las representaciones y prácticas de la democracia y el comportamiento de los actores sociales ante un Estado impotente o cómplice las que constituyen el mayor reto en una América Latina democratizada y hastaanclada a la izquierda desde el año 2006, salvo contadas excepciones.
ADRIAN J. PEARCE (ed.): Evo Morales and the Movimiento al Socialismo in Bolivia: The First Term in Context, 2006-2010. London: Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London, 2011.
Authors: Weyland Kurt
Published: February 2024

ADRIAN J. PEARCE (ed.): Evo Morales and the Movimiento al Socialismoin Bolivia: The First Term in Context, 2006-2010. London: Institute for theStudy of the Americas, University of London, 2011.
ROBERT L. SMALE: I Sweat the Flavor of Tin: Labor Activism in Early Twentieth-Century Bolivia. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010.
Authors: Crabtree John
Published: February 2024

ROBERT L. SMALE: I Sweat the Flavor of Tin: Labor Activism in EarlyTwentieth-Century Bolivia. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010.
PABLO PICATO: The tyranny of opinion. Honor in the construction of the Mexican Public sphere. Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2010.
Authors: Schmidt Samuel
Published: February 2024

PABLO PICATO: The tyranny of opinion. Honor in the construction of theMexican Public sphere. Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2010.
AMY CHAZKEL: Laws of Chance: Brazil´s Clandestine Lottery and the Making of Urban Public Life. Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2011.
Authors: Cecchi Ana
Published: February 2024

AMY CHAZKEL: Laws of Chance: Brazil´s Clandestine Lottery and theMaking of Urban Public Life. Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2011.
A White Elephant in Asphalt: The United States and Transport Policy in Bolivia, 1941-1951
Authors: Hillman John
Published: February 2024

In July 1946 a popular uprising deposed the military government headed by Major Gualberto Villarroel and ended the first regime in which the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (MNR) played a major role in attempting to reconstruct the political economy of Bolivia. Five years and eight months later the MNR led another popular uprising which deposed another despised military government and ushered in a far more radical process of reconstruction. The Bolivian National Revolution of 1952 was such an important event, not only in the history of the country but in the history of Spanish America as a whole, that the historiography of the intervening period, the sexenio, has focused on the route to that revolution. As conflicts became increasingly intense and violent in the mines, the cities, and the countryside, the ruling body was inevitably defined as a traditional, oligarchic, and reactionary regime, a mere instrument of the tin oligarchy of the large mining companies and their allies, known as the rosca,
Without Borders: Reflections on Anarchism in Latin America
Authors: Hirsch Steven
Published: February 2024

The complex history of global anarchism is currently undergoing a thorough historical revision.   Inspired by the worldwide resurgence of anarchist ideas, methods of struggle, and movements that accompanied the ascendance of neoliberalism and globalized capital, and the collapse of international communism in the 1990s, scholars have recently embarked on a re-examination of classical anarchism (1860s-1920s) from a transnational perspective.  This new historiography of anarchism eschews the standard nation-state centered approach and its concomitant interpretation of nationally self-contained anarchist movements. Taking anarchism’s principle of internationalism seriously, it focuses instead on supranational and multidirectional flows of ideas, discourses, resources, and activists, and formal and informal organizational and personal connections and interactions.  In doing so, it offers a more nuanced historical narrative of anarchist networks, organization, ideological formation, solidarities, spaces, and temporalities.  Much of this current literature however has been based primarily in a European territorial context.  Still there is reason to be optimistic about a more comprehensive treatment of the history of anarchism. Renewed interest in anarchism’s anti-colonial and anti-imperialist struggles has resulted in several important historical studies that encompass the Global South. Nevertheless, considerable work remains to be done on the dissemination and reception of anarchism in the Global South during the first globalization (1880s-1920s), as Carl Levy recently stressed in an incisive literature review.
'Miss Sefaradi' and 'Queen Esther': Sephardim, Zionism, and Ethnic and National Identities in Argentina, 1933-1971
Authors: Brodsky Adriana M.
Published: February 2024

In 1940, Esther Bahbouth, a Sephardi young woman representing the Centro Sionista Sefaradí (CSS), won the title of ‘Reina Esther’ in the Purim contest organized in Buenos Aires by the Keren Kayemet Leisrael (KKL).1 The Se- phardic community was ecstatic; it was the first time a Sephardic young woman had won the coveted crown.2 In these early decades of the twentieth century, when Zionist activity among Sephardim was still being defined and organized, the victory of Esther Bahbouth carried significant weight for this minority. The relationship between the Centro Sionista Sefaradí and the local Federación Sionista Argentina (made up of Ashkenazi Zionists) was conflictive, even an- tagonistic, and the Sephardim complained bitterly about the way in which the ‘majority’ of the Argentine Jewish community treated them. A Sephardi young woman in the Zionist dais, they rejoiced, clearly signaled to the Ashkenazim their undeniable commitment to the Zionist project.3
Mito, pragmatismo e imperialismo. La conciencia social en la conquista del imperio azteca TZVI MEDIN: Madrid-Frankfurt-México: Iberoamericana Vervuert- Bonilla Artigas Editores, 2009.
Authors: Invernizzi Diana Carrió
Published: February 2024

Mito, pragmatismo e imperialismo ofrece una nueva mirada sobre la conquista de Tenochtitlan protagonizada por Hernán Cortés, y, más específicamente, sobre el encuentro entre dos civilizaciones con una conciencia colectiva muy distinta.  El análisis de lo que separó la civilización azteca, cerrada en sí misma y con la mitología como gran referente conceptual, de la española, expansiva y pragmática, le permite a Tzvi Medin entender mejor la conciencia propia de cada una de estas civilizaciones, y explorar la manera en que tales diferencias afectaron el desarrollo del largo conflicto diplomático y bélico que se inició cuando Cortés se embarcó desde Cuba rumbo a Yucatán en 1517 y concluyó con el asalto definitivo a Tenochtitlan en 1521.
El Caso de la comunidad judía mexicana: El diseño estructural del estado durante el siglo XX y su interrelación con las minorías. LIZ HAMUI: México: Colección Dime Nacional para Prevenir la Discriminación, 2009.
Authors: Schuster Paulette Kershenovich
Published: February 2024

El presente libro de Liz Hamui, El caso de la comunidad judía mexicana, revela un cuadro complejo acerca de las relaciones entre la mayoría y las minorías, enfocándose en la comunidad judía, y hace hincapié en los cambios producidos en estas relaciones. Asímismo, se nos ofrece un panorama tangible sobre la historia de la colectividad judía y su relación asimétrica con el gobierno y con la cultura mexicana que la acogió.El libro, de 158 páginas, consta de siete capítulos, precedidos de una presentación y una introducción y seguidos de una conclusión, glosario y bibliografía.
Ese Ardiente Jardín de la República. Formación y desarticulación de un "campo" cultural: Tucumán, 1880-1975. FABIOLA ORQUERA (coord): Alción Editorial, 2010
Authors: Lichtmajer Leandro Ary
Published: February 2024

Fruto de un trabajo colectivo que reunió a investigadores de procedencias institucionales y formaciones disciplinares diversas, Ese Ardiente Jardín de la República analiza el proceso de formación, apogeo y desarticulación del campo cultural de la provincia de Tucumán (Argentina) entre 1880 y los prolegómenos del golpe de Estado de 1976. En ese sentido, la compilación de Fabiola Orquera se propone explorar, a partir de una confluencia de miradas que abarcan desde la historia y la crítica literaria hasta la estética, la sociología y las ciencias de la educación, algunos de los múltiples actores que compusieron el entramado cultural tucumano durante el lapso de un siglo.
Holiday in Mexico: Critical Reflections on Tourism and Tourist Encounters. DINA BERGER and ANDREW GRANT WOOD (eds.): Duke University Press, 2010
Authors: Levi Heather
Published: February 2024

Holiday in Mexico is a welcome and valuable addition to tourism studies and Mexican cultural history. In Mexico as elsewhere, tourism figures as a power-laden site of interaction between local, national, and international actors; the fourteen essays that make up this collection examine that site from a variety of angles. Taken together they provide a provocative set of tools for thinking about the construction of social, economic, and political power in Mexico more generally.
Leftist Governments in Latin America: Successes and Shortcomings. KURT WEYLAND, RAÚL L. MADRID, and WENDY HUNTER (eds.): Cambridge University Press, 2010
Authors: Idiart Alma
Published: February 2024

Entre 2010 y 2011, varios libros publicados en los Estados Unidos de América se han ocupado de organizar y difundir el estado actual del debate académico acerca del “resurgimiento de las izquierdas latinoamericanas”. Esto no es casual, dado que ya desde hace una década asistimos al advenimiento de gobiernos en América Latina asociados en diversos grados con ideologías de izquierda, en franco contraste (al menos desde el punto de vista discursivo e ideológico) con las administraciones prevalecientes en la región durante la década del noventa.
Uruguay de medio siglo: las narrativas de la "crisis estructural" y la paradoja del impulso y el freno
Authors: Espeche Ximena
Published: February 2024

Uruguay de medio siglo: las narrativas de la "crisis estructural" y la paradoja del impulso y el freno
STEVEN LEVITSKY y KENNETH M. ROBERTS (eds.): The Resurgence of the Latin American Left. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
Authors: Paramio Ludolfo
Published: February 2024

Hacia 2009, cerca de dos tercios de los ciudadanos latinoamericanos vivían bajo gobiernos que podían considerarse de izquierda, un hecho sin precedentes en la región que Levitsky y Roberts se proponen analizar, y en la medida de lo posible explicar. El libro se compone de una primera parte de estudios sectoriales (temáticos) y de una segunda de estudios de caso, sobre los países gobernados por la izquierda (Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Argentina, Brasil, Chile y Uruguay), más la excepción de Perú (The Left Turn that Wasn’t).
PAUL GARNER: British Lions and Mexican Eagles. Business, Politics, and Empire in the Career of Weetman Pearson in Mexico, 1889-1919. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011.
Authors: Revueltas Silvestre Villegas
Published: February 2024

El presente libro concluye una etapa de la investigación que sobre el México porfiriano ha desarrollado Paul Garner y que anteriormente resultó en artículos en revistas especializadas y en capítulos de libros colectivos, y puede considerarse como la segunda parte de la biografía Porfirio Díaz (Londres: Longman, 2001), productos aquellos que, unidos a conferencias, cursos universitarios y participación en programas televisivos como Discutamos México (México, Conalcuta, 2010) hacen del académico de Leeds un genuino especialista en temas mexicanos del siglo XIX y XX.
FLAVIA FIORUCCI: Intelectuales y Peronismo, 1945-1955. Buenos Aires: Editorial Biblos, 2011.
Authors: Dujovne Alejandro
Published: February 2024

Frente a otro planos de la historia del primer peronismo, en los que la historiografía alcanzó ciertos acuerdos básicos, el relato de las relaciones entre el Estado peronista y los intelectuales pareciera seguir estando dominado por las memorias de los actores. Podemos aventurar dos razones para explicar esta situación.