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Transatlantic Battles
How did overseas Europeans participate in the two world wars’ effort? Which were the tensions around mobilization? How did the war affect their identity and their descendants? What were their mobilization’s effects on the relationship with the adopted homelands? These closely intertwined issues connect to the central argument of the book: war exerted a crucial influence on the configuration – and reconfiguration – of those European communities’ national or ethnic identities and made evident their transnational nature. Through different case studies, this volume approached the multi-faceted, complex, and fluid nature of immigrant collective identities under the pressures and challenges of total wars. Contributors are: Juan Pablo Artinian, Juan Luis Carrellán Ruiz, Hernán M. Díaz, Norman Fraser Brown, Marcelo Huernos, Milagros Martínez-Flener, Norman Fraser Brown, Germán C. Friedmann, María Inés Tato, and Stefan Rinke. Transatlantic Battles: European Immigrant Communities in South America and the World Wars is now available in paperback for individual customers.
Handbook of Latin American Studies, Vol. 76
Beginning with Number 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year between social sciences and humanities. The Handbook annotates works on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Guianas, Spanish South America, and Brazil, as well as materials covering Latin America as a whole. Most of the subsections are preceded by introductory essays that serve as biannual evaluations of the literature and research underway in specialized areas.
The First World War
This volume is the result of an international conference held at Sapienza University of Rome in June 2014, which brought together scholars from different countries to re-analyse and re-interpret the events of the First World War, one hundred years after a young Bosnian Serb student from the “Mlada Bosna,” Gavrilo Princip, “lit the fuse” and ignited the conflict which was to forever change the world. The Great War – initially on a European and then on a world scale – demonstrated the fragility of the international system of the European balance of powers, and determined the dissolution of the great multinational empires and the need to redraw the map of Europe according to the pri...
The Age of Lincoln and Cavour
In the 19th century, both Italy and the US were young countries pursuing liberal nationalism even as unity was threatened by a recalcitrant southern population. This nuanced analysis of abolitionism and Italian democratic nationalism, Lincoln and Cavour, and the nation's two civil wars provides powerful new insights into their histories.
The New Pan-Americanism and the Structuring of Inter-American Relations
What is Pan-Americanism? People have been struggling with that problem for over a century. Pan-Americanism is (and has been) an amalgam of diplomatic, political, economic, and cultural projects under the umbrella of hemispheric cooperation and housed institutionally in the Pan-American Union, and later the Organization of American States. But what made Pan-Americanism exceptional? The chapters in this volume suggest that Pan-Americanism played a central and lasting role in structuring inter-American relations, because of the ways in which the movement was reinvented over time, and because the actors who shaped it often redefined and redeployed the term. Through the twentieth century, new app...
Entre Cóndores y Turpiales
¿Qué necesidades impulsaron el restablecimiento de las relaciones italianas con América Latina después de la segunda guerra mundial? ¿A cuáles iniciativas le apostó Italia para abrirse un espacio debajo del río Bravo? y ¿en qué medida el orden internacional y las opciones atlánticas y europeistas de Roma incidieron en el conseguimiento de esos objetivos? Son estos los interrogantes principales que inspiran el texto, centrándose sobre todo en las relaciones establecidas con la Colombia de Gustavo Rojas Pinilla y la Venezuela de Marcos Pérez Jiménez, el volumen investiga la evolución de la política latinoamericana de Italia. El análisis toma en cuenta la densa red de interdependencias ocasionadas por el cruce y la superposición de distintas dimensiones: la política interna, los vínculos bilaterales, las relaciones interamericanas e internacionales. El objetivo es enriquecer el horizonte interpretativo de los estudios sobre las relaciones ítalo-latinoamericanas y ampliar un panorama historiográfico aún limitado.
Re-examining the Holocaust through Literature
In the late 1980s, Holocaust literature emerged as a provocative, but poorly defined, scholarly field. The essays in this volume reflect the increasingly international and pluridisciplinary nature of this scholarship and the widening of the definition of Holocaust literature to include comic books, fiction, film, and poetry, as well as the more traditional diaries, memoirs, and journals. Ten contributors from four countries engage issues of authenticity, evangelicalism, morality, representation, personal experience, and wish-fulfillment in Holocaust literature, which have been the subject of controversies in the US, Europe, and the Middle East. Of interest to students and instructors of antisemitism, national and comparative literatures, theater, film, history, literary criticism, religion, and Holocaust studies, this book also contains an extensive bibliography with references in over twenty languages which seeks to inspire further research in an international context.
Controversias latinoamericanas en la Haya
El presente libro es la versión actualizada del que se publicó bajo el título de Paradojas de las controversias territoriales latinoamericanas, y se ocupa de analizar las once sentencias de la Corte Internacional de Justicia que resuelven cinco diferendos territoriales-marítimos, y ponen en evidencia las antinomias que los Estados latinoamericanos incorporaron en sus textos constitucionales referidas, por un lado, al soberanismo decimonónico que era coherente con el derecho internacional clásico y, por el otro, a los principios de cooperación y multilateralidad que emergieron a mediados del siglo XX para superar las atrocidades de las denominadas guerras mundiales. En efecto, como se demuestra en este trabajo, los gobiernos de los Estados latinoamericanos que han acudido a la jurisdicción de la Corte Internacional de Justicia y que han sido vencidos en juicio, han tenido que afrontar un dilema entre acatar las cláusulas que constitucionalizaron el territorio y las que establecen el deber de cumplir los compromisos internacionales contenidos en la sentencia del Alto Tribunal de Naciones Unidas.
Corruption, Anti-Corruption, Vigilance, and State Building from Early to Late Modern Times
Corruption, Anti-Corruption, Vigilance, and State Building from Early to Late Modern Times challenges current historiographical approaches, proposing new interpretations to rethink the relation between corruption and the socio-political and economic transformations since early globalisation. By adopting both transnational and long-term approaches, the book explores the historical dimension of notions such as accountability, transparency, and vigilance in their immediate political, social, and legal contexts. The starting point is to view corruption not as a moral category that emerged in 1789 to delegitimise past, foreign or present state systems, but as a constantly contested concept that must also be historicised in past societies. The collection revisits chronologies and examines different local, regional, and national frames, highlighting that the path to modernity was contested and affected by a variety of unique circumstances, such as revolutions and external political powers. Building on the latest research and offering new methods of inquiry, this book is a compelling resource for academics interested in political history and the history of corruption.
Una modernidad política iberoamericana. Siglo XIX
Este libro explora los diversos significados de la modernidad política en la historia iberoamericana del siglo xix. Si los bicentenarios de la fundación de las repúblicas de Colombia y Perú, de los imperios de México y Brasil, y del estallido de las revoluciones liberales en España y Portugal fueron el estímulo original para iniciar el trabajo, el enfoque adoptado sobrepasa la coyuntura memorial y se inscribe en un horizonte reflexivo más amplio. Se trata, pues, de demostrar que la modernidad política no solo es asimilable a la ruptura revolucionaria de 1808, sino que el tránsito entre los valores tradicionales y revolucionarios que caracterizaron el surgimiento de los Estados naci...
