New History

Current History, Philosophy and Religion, Social Sciences and Multidisciplinary Studies

Aguerre Core, Fernando
Una caída anunciada: El obispo Torre y los jesuitas del Río de la Plata (1757-1773).

Prol. by Pedro Borges Morán. Montevideo: Linardi y Risso, 2007, 393p., biblio., notes, documental appendix.
[Colonial history, church and state. On Paraguay and the Rio de la Plata region under Bourbon rule, focusing on Jesuit Bishop Torre’s appointment, ecclesiastic visit and economic report, persecution and defense.]

ISBN: 9789974675032 $39.40 Order

Arnold, Denise, Juan de Dios Yapita and Elvira Espejo Ayca
Hilos sueltos: los Andes desde el textil.

La Paz: Plural, 2007, 428p., biblio., b&w, color facsim., ill., photos. Serie Etnografías; 3.
[Ethno-history. On the origins, symbolism and uses of traditional Andean textiles, as a basis for the comprehension of indigenous history and culture. Topics include prehispanic to contemporary historical and administrative records using knotted cords; patterns representing spatial symbolism in funerary practices; uses in astronomy, worship, divination, prayer; historic and contemporary color and pattern symbolism.]

ISBN: 9789995410735 $30.00 Order

Betancourt Mendieta, Alexander
Historia y nación: tentativas de la escritura de la historia en Colombia.

Medellín: La Carreta, 2007, 293p., biblio., notes. La carreta histórica.
[Historiography. Analyzes the development of Colombian history as an academic discipline. On its consolidation as a conscious effort to create a national identity in the 19th c. and to foment development in the 20th c. On the paradigmatic crisis of the 1980s, the revisionist movement, theories of analysis and synthesis, individual contributions, current debates.]

ISBN: 9589802212 $36.40 Order

Cabrera, Enriqueta (Comp.)
Desafíos de la migración: saldos de la relación México-Estados Unidos.

Prol. by Carlos Monsiváis. México, D.F.: Planeta, 2007, 380p., biblio., biobiblio., notes, stats., b&w graphs, maps. Col. Temas de hoy.
[Migration studies. On US-Mexico relations and the complexities of an increasingly integrated frontier region and contradictory anti-immigration political stance. Includes Monsiváis and Arizpe reflecting on bilateral transculturation and migrant economic contributions, and Cruz Piñeiro on US regional employment of Mexican immigrants.]

ISBN: 9703701388 $34.00 Order

Camarero, Hernán
A la conquista de la clase obrero: los comunistas y el mundo del trabajo en la Argentina, 1920-1935.

Buenos Aires: Siglo XXI, 2007, 397p., biblio., notes, onomastic index. Col. Historia y Política; 7.
[Political, social history. On the Communist Party’s campaign to organize and control the Argentine working class. Analyzes ideology and political discourse, formation of unions and guilds, establishment of libraries, schools, sporting clubs, etc. Wide range of sources includes declassified Russian documents Russia and other unpublished archives.]

ISBN: 9789871013609 $29.70 Order

Cátedra Extraordinaria “José Martí” and Cátedra “Benito Juárez”
Relaciones México-Cuba 1950-2006: historias y perspectivas.

Pres. by Estela Morales Campos and José Ignacio Piña. México, D.F.: UNAM, 2007, 344p., biblio., notes. Serie Memorias; 4.
[History. Congress papers, 2006. Evaluations of diplomatic, economic and cultural relations between Mexico and Cuba, 1950-2006, include discussions of migration, integration, commerce, and academic and scientific exchange.]

ISBN: 9789703242481 $34.00 Order

Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales
Derechos humanos en la Argentina: Informe 2007.

Buenos Aires: Siglo XXI, 2007, 481p., notes, stats.
[Politics. Annual publication on Argentine human rights. On justice for the dictatorship’s crimes, politics of defense, civil control and security, processes for refuting past decisions, changes in the justice system, challenges to democracy, migrants’ rights, access to information, freedom of assembly.]

ISBN: 9789871220724 $31.50 Order

Colom, Francisco and Ángel Rivero (Editors)
El altar y el trono: ensayos sobre el catolicismo político iberoamericano.

Barcelona: Anthropos, 2006, 205p., notes, b&w facsim. & photos. Pensamiento Crítico / Pensamiento Utópico; 158.
[Church history. On the Catholic Church’s political relationship to emerging national states in Latin American and Spain, from its reaction against 19th c. liberalism and modernism to its alliance with 20th c. authoritarianism. Topics include political involvement in Colombia, 1885-1953; neoliberal thought in Pinochet’s Chile; nationalism in contemporary Argentina; and 20th c. Latin American Catholic movements.]

ISBN: 8476588011 $33.00 Order

Cornejo, Romer (Comp.)
En los intersticios de la democracia y el autoritarismo: algunos casos de Asia, África y América Latina.

Buenos Aires: CLACSO, 2006, 418p., biblio., notes, stats., tables, b&w graphs. Col. Sur/Sur.
[Political studies. Case studies of the development and effectiveness of democratic governments worldwide, comparing levels of authoritarian control, conditions for suffrage, popular attitudes; also incomplete democratization in Mexico and Indonesia and loss of confidence in Venezuela.]

ISBN: 9871183607 $31.70 Order

De la Torre, Renée and Cristina Gutiérrez Zúñiga
Atlas de la diversidad religiosa en México.

Intro. by Renée de la Torre. México, D.F.: CIESAS, 2007, 247p., h.c., large format, biblio., biobiblio., notes, stats., color maps, graphs, CD-ROM.
[Religion. This atlas, based on data from 1950 to 2000, analyzes and portrays religious preferences throughout Mexico. The information is correlated to age, gender, education, income, household type, socioeconomic status, ethnicity and other demographic factors. Gives detailed historical background and descriptions of the various Christian and non-Christian sects.]

ISBN: 9789684966499 $71.00 Order

Díaz Quiñones, Arcadio
Sobre los principios: los intelectuales caribeños y la tradición.

Bernal: Univ. Nac. de Quilmes, 2006, 526p., biblio., notes. Col. Intersecciones.
[History of ideas. Princeton professor Díaz Quiñones combines political and intellectual history to define Caribbean intellectual tradition and show how writers at the end of the 19th c. were formed by and influenced Latin American intellectual history.]

ISBN: 987558102X $27.00 Order

Di Meglio, Gabriel

¡Viva el bajo pueblo! : la plebe urbana de Buenos Aires y la política entre la Revolución de Mayo y el rosismo (1810-1829).

Buenos Aires: Prometeo, 2006, 364p., biblio., notes. stats., b&w facsim., graphs.
[History. UBA historian Di Meglio shows the Argentine plebiscite’s early 19th c. political influence. On motives, including patriotic fervor and defense of rights; and methods: circulation of rumors, ditties and printed materials; instigation of military riots, etc.]

ISBN: 9875741035 $32.15 Order

Espinosa Miñoso, Yuderkys
Escritos de una lesbiana oscura: reflexiones críticas sobre feminismo y política de identidad en América Latina.

Pres. by Violeta Barrientos Silva. Buenos Aires: En la Frontera, 2007, 190p., notes.
[Women’s studies. Collected articles, 1996-2007: Critical reflections on feminism and the politics of identity. Examines the feminist-lesbian movement, compromises made in the quest for sociopolitical acceptance, and recent developments in feminist theory. Foments a reexamination of both the lesbian culture and the wider feminist movement.]

ISBN: 9789872364809 $29.20 Order

González, Jorge Enrique (Editor)
Nación y nacionalismo en América Latina.

Bogotá: Univ. Nac. de Colombia, CLACSO, 2007, 335p., biblio., notes. Col. Edición y Distribución Cooperativa de CLACSO; Col. Lecturas CES. [Political history. Studies Latin American nationhood from the 19th c. to recent years. Topics include problems of nationhood in Latin America, Colombia and Panama; Catholic nationalism in Colombia, 1870-1946; U.S. colonization of Puerto Rico; nationhood and populism in Peru; recent historiography of Brazilian independence; and Liberalism in the construction of the Argentine state.]

ISBN: 9588063434 $35.00 Order

Goldberg, Alejandro
Tú, sudaca: las dimensiones histórico-geográficas, sociopolíticas y culturales alrededor del significado de ser inmigrante (y argentino) en España.

Buenos Aires: Prometeo, 2007, 160p., biblio., notes, stats., b&w facsim., graphs.
[Migration studies. UBA professor Goldberg takes an anthropological viewpoint of contemporary migration patterns resulting from globalization, in historical, geographic, sociopolitical and cultural contexts. Compares case studies of Senegalese and Argentine migrants in Barcelona. Isolates principle factors affecting adaptation, social and economic insertion/integration/exclusion.]

ISBN: 9789875741256 $29.00 Order

Hoyos Körbel, Pedro Felipe
Las negritudes y Bolívar: momentos históricos de una minoría étnica en la Gran Colombia.

Manizales: Hoyos, 2007, 394p., biblio., notes.
[Political history. On Bolívar’s political strategy in Nueva Granada as it regarded economic independence, emancipation, Creole plantations, and slave holding elite. Underscores the role of Haiti’s 1791 civil war in Bolivar’s and Creole ambivalence toward emancipation. On Bolivar’s 1817 arrest and condemnation of General Piar, mulatto social and political rights advocate; the Bolivar constitution; 1821 Congress of Cucuta and emancipation. With transcripts of documents by New Granada 1815 president, Antonio Villavicencio and Colombian pro-abolitionist, Felix de Restrepo, 1821.]

ISBN: 9789584410931 $36.00 Order

Lamas, Marta (Coord.)
Miradas feministas sobre las mexicanas del siglo XX.

México, D.F.: FCE, Conaculta, 2007, 443p., biblio., notes. Col. Biblioteca Mexicana.
[Social history. Women’s studies. Diverse aspects of Mexican women’s changing roles, from the political arena to the labor market, 1900-2000. Topics include the impact of urbanization on women’s roles and status; Cárdenas’ 1937 recognition of women’s suffrage; women in the Revolution and other uprisings; women as authors and film directors.]

ISBN: 9789681684310 $32.00 Order

Loveman, Brian and Elizabeth Lira

Los actos de la dictadura: Comisión Investigadora, 1931.

Santiago: LOM, 2006, 790p., biblio., notes, thematic index, appendices, b&w facsim. Col. Historia. Col. Fuentes para la Historia de la República; 27.
[History. Documents produced by the Chilean commission investigating government actions under Ibáñez del Campos’s dictatorship, 1927-1931, and interpretation thereof. On imprisonment, “disappearances” and deaths; officials’ abuse of power; surveillance and informants; repressive policies.]

ISBN: 9562828239 $41.50 Order

Luján Muñoz, Jorge (Editor)
Relaciones geográficas e históricas del siglo XVIII del Reino de Guatemala Tomo I. Relaciones geográficas e históricas de la década de 1740.

Ciudad de Guatemala: Univ. del Valle de Guatemala, 2006, 508p., notes, onomastic, geographic, thematic index, b&w maps.
[Colonial history. Sources. Collected 1740s geographic, socioeconomic and historic reports by religious and government officials in Reino de Guatemala, made to the Spanish Crown.]

ISBN: 9993969990 $35.00 Order

Marzal, Manuel and Luis Bacigalupo (Editors)
Los Jesuitas y la modernidad en Iberoamérica (1549-1773).

Lima: PUCP, Univ. del Pacifico, IFEA, 2007, 533p., biblio., biobiblio., tables, notes. Actes & Mémoires de l’Institut Français d’Études Andines; 15.
[History. Congress papers, “Los Jesuitas y la modernidad en Iberoamérica”, 2003. On the Jesuits’ accomplishments and influence as their ideological, theological and cultural expansion affirmed the Spanish Crown’s presence in the New World. On evangelization, establishment of educational institutions, development of a Creole economy, etc. Also on the18th c. Jesuit expulsion under the Bourbons. Authors include Rey Fajardo, Gonzalbo Aizpuru, Marzal and Miguel Portilla.]

ISBN: 9789972428210 $36.20 Order

Mason, Alfredo
Sindicalismo y dictadura: una historia poco contada (1976-1983).

Buenos Aires, Biblos, 2007, 166p., biblio., abbr., notes, documental appendices. Col. Historia.
[Political history. Explores the proactivism of Argentine unions during the last dictatorship, and reprisals against Peronist social and political structure of the time. On the Argentine external debt and financial crisis and organized labor's resistence.]

ISBN: 9789507865800 $28.50 Order

Margulis, Mario; Marcelo Urresti, et al.

Familia, hábitat y sexualidad en Buenos Aires: Investigaciones desde la dimensión cultural.

Pres., intro. by Mario Margulis, Marcelo Urresti and Hugo Lewis. Buenos Aires: Biblos, 2007, 318p., biblio., notes, stats. Col. Sociedad.
[Sociology. Studies of cultural changes in Buenos Aires, as shown in young people’s behavior regarding sexuality and relationships, and the resulting influence on marriage, maternity and family. In two sections: on how housing conditions affect family life, social customs and adolescent sexuality; and on cultural changes affecting gender roles and ideology among young people.]

ISBN: 9789507865930 $32.40 Order

Marroquín, Enrique
El conflicto religioso Oaxaca, 1976-1992.

Prol. by Jorge Hernández-Díaz. México, D.F.: UNAM, 2007, 236p., biblio., notes, b&w diagrams, graphs, maps. Col. Alternativas. [History. Describes and analyzes late 20th c. religious conflicts in Oaxaca. Focuses on the sociocultural status of indigenous groups and their use of an amalgamation of traditional and Christian religious symbolism to comprehend and adapt to modern Mexico. On canonization of natives, Liberation Theology, other factors.]

ISBN: 9703240178 $36.00 Order

Meyer, Jean
El conflicto religioso en Oaxaca (1926-1938).

Oaxaca: CIESAS, 2006, 90p., biblio., notes, b&w facsim., map, photos.
[History. On the Oaxacan nonviolent religious conflict, contrasting it to the roughly contemporaneous Cristero movement. Compares the local government with those of Tabasco and Jalisco, both then and during the Mexican Revolution, and their relationships with the Church.]

ISBN: 9689045105 $33.00 Order

Moreno Andrade, Saúl Horacio
Dilemas petroleros. Cultura, poder y trabajo en el Golfo de México.

México, D.F.: CIESAS, 2007, 411p., biblio., notes, abbr., glossary, b&w maps. Publicaciones de la Casa Chata.
[History. Labor studies. On traditional vs. corporate power structures, union organization, political dynamics in the Gulf of Mexico petroleum industry, 1935-2007. On development of local powers relating to Pemex; stages in the formation of socioeconomic and political order; 1988-90 crisis in Agua Dulce, Veracruz with union leader Hernández Galicia’s arrest; dynamics among municipal, union and corporate power structures.]

ISBN: 9684966385 $32.00 Order

Nínive García, Nora; Márgara Millán and Cynthia Pech (Coord.)
Cartografías del feminismo mexicano, 1970-2000.

México, D.F.: UACM, 2007, 432p., chrono., biobiblio. Pensamiento Crítico; 4.
[Social history. Studies on the recent history of Mexican feminism: sexuality, lesbianism, domestic labor and social
violence; the movement’s future, including elective motherhood, indigenous women’s roles,
political options; music, “cyber-feminism”, cinema and art.]

ISBN: 9689037218 $29.00 Order

Pérez Rivera, Hésper Eduardo
El tránsito hacia el Estado nacional en América Latina en el siglo XIX: Argentina, México y Colombia.

Bogotá: Univ. Nac. de Colombia, 2007, 169p., biblio., notes, analytic index, stats., b&w facsim. Col. CES.
[19th c. political history. Compares progress from independence to the formation of national identity in the above three countries. On common origins and liberal influences, major differences in central, outlying or interregional power structure, economic development and ethnic composition. On nationalist leaders Roca, Díaz and Núñez, and the resulting nationalist states, 1880-1910.]

ISBN: 9789588063478 $28.50 Order

Platt, Tristan, Thérèse Bouysse-Cassagne and Olivia Harris
Qaraqara-Charka: Mallku, Inka y Rey en la provincia de Charcas (siglos XV-XVII. Historia antropológica de una confederación aymara.

La Paz: Plural, 2006, 1,088p., biblio., notes, stats., onomastic, geographic, thematic indices, b&w, color facsim., maps, photos. Travaux de l’Institut Français d’Études Andines; 174.
[Ethno-history. Based on 500 pages of unpublished archival documents, this important revision of 15th-17th c. Inca and Spanish history analyzes the Qaraqara and Charka, Aymara dual confederation in the south-central Andes. On Aymara integration into the Inca, Spanish and colonial empires. Reconstructs prehispanic and early colonial political systems, economies, religious cosmologies and ritual. Shows how Andean record keeping and administrative techniques (khipus, etc.) interacted with European writing and governance. Studies the transformation of Aymara lords into salaried state functionaries, as they reinserted themselves and their regimes advantageously in the emerging colonial order. The documents are grouped into 5 sections, each with an introduction, presentation and two tables of contents (general and documentary).]

ISBN: 9990563772 $59.50 Order

Quevedo Alvarado, María Piedad
Un cuerpo para el espíritu: mística en la Nueva Granada, el cuerpo, el gusto y el asco 1680-1750.

Bogotá: ICANH, 2007, 253p., biblio., notes, b&w facsim. Col. Cuadernos Coloniales.
[Social history. Winner, Concurso “Mejores Trabajos de Historia Colonial” ICANH 2006. On the role of mysticism in 17th-18th c. New Granada, focusing on the mystical experience as related to the body: corporal penitence as central to religious thought, as a basis for behavior control, and its wider impact in colonial urban culture.]

ISBN: 9789588181431 $28.50 Order

Saignes, Thierry (France, 1946-1992)
Historia del pueblo chiriguano.

Intro., notes by Isabelle Combés. La Paz: Plural, 2007, 332p., biblio., glossary, notes, tables. Travaux de l’Institut Français d’Études Andines; 226.
[Ethno-history. Compiled articles, plus two unpublished essays, grouped by interest areas. On frontiers: Inca conquest, Chiriguano invasion and rule. War against the state: Cumbay’s history, western Bolivian cultures vs. republicanism. Cultural mixing, frontier conflicts. Jesuit works on history, memory. Saignes, a widely respected French ethnohistorian, specialized in the Chiriguano (Guaraní).]

ISBN: 9789995410674 $34.00 Order

Tarcus, Horacio
Marx en la Argentina: sus primeros lectores obreros, intelectuales y científicos.

Buenos Aires: Siglo XXI, 2007, 542p., biblio., abbr., notes, documental appendix, b&w facsim. Col. Sociología y Política. [Political history. Tarcus, historian at the Univ. de Buenos Aires, specializes in Marxism and leftist movements in Argentina. On Marx’s early reception in the press, by workers in the 1871 Comuna de París, and in Argentina by Juan B. Justo, del Valle Iberlucea, Palacios and other founders of Argentine socialism, and by social scientists and thinkers such as Quesada and Ingenieros.]

ISBN: 9789871220991 $34.50 Order

Torres Arancivia, Eduardo
Buscando un rey: el autoritarismo en la historia del Perú, siglos XVI-XXI.

Lima: PUCP, 2007, 295p., biblio., notes. [Political history. Premio Nacional PUCP de Ensayo, 2007. Examines authoritarianism, from monarchy to dictatorship, in 16th-20th c. Peruvian history, as a basis for hypotheses on Peru’s current power structure. On the colonial viceroyalty; disillusionment with and rebellion against Bourbon rule; monarchical traits in the 19th c. republic, 20th c. democracy, and contemporary government and society. By the author of “Corte de virreyes: El entorno del poder en el Perú en el siglo XVII” (2006)]

ISBN: 9789972428173 $36.80 Order

Wills Obregón, María Emma
Inclusión sin representación: la irrupción política de la mujeres en Colombia (1970-2000).

Bogotá: Norma, 2007, 398p., biblio., notes, tables, stats., b&w graphs. Col. Vitral.
[Political, social history. An introduction to and analysis of 20th c. collective women’s initiatives and feminist groups’ involvement in Colombian politics and education. Posits that an increased level of participation was not matched by an equivalent level of representation. Analyzes statistical data, and shows underlying causes, including institutional secularization and blocks imposed by the 1988-1998 war.]

ISBN: 9789584502360 $33.80 Order

Zaida Lobato, Mirta
Historia de las trabajadoras en la Argentina (1869-1960).

Buenos Aires: Edhasa, 2007, 349p., biblio., notes, stats., b&w facsim., photos, graphs. Col. Ensayo Histórico.
[Economic, social history; women’s studies. On women in the Argentine labor market in the context of 19th-20th c. economic, political and social changes: the industrial revolution, formation of unions and fight for social rights, and European immigration.]

ISBN: 9789509009899 $33.60 Order