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A City Against Empire
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 224

A City Against Empire

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library as part of the Opening the Future project with COPIM. A City Against Empire is the history of the anti-imperialist movement in 1920s Mexico City. It combines intellectual, social, and urban history to shed light on the city’s role as an important global hub for anti-imperialism, exile activism, political art, and solidarity campaigns. After the Russian and the Mexican Revolution, Mexico City became a space and a symbol of global anti-imperialism. Radical politicians, artists, intellectuals, scientists, migrants, and revolutionary tourists took advantage of the urban environment ...

The Anticolonial Transnational
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 331

The Anticolonial Transnational

The first volume to explore transnational anticolonialism as a global phenomenon spanning the entire twentieth century. Leading scholars demonstrate that anticolonial movements everywhere in this period were invariably transnational in terms of their imaginaries, mobilities, and networks, and that their legacies fundamentally shaped the present.

The Middle Classes in Latin America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 604

The Middle Classes in Latin America

As a collective effort, this volume locates the formation of the middle classes at the core of the histories of Latin America in the last two centuries. Featuring scholars from different places across the Americas, it is an interdisciplinary contribution to the world histories of the middle classes, histories of Latin America, and intersectional studies. It also engages a larger audience about the importance of the middle classes to understand modernity, democracy, neoliberalism, and decoloniality. By including research produced from a variety of Latin American, North American, and other audiences, the volume incorporates trends in social history, cultural studies and discursive theory. It situates analytical categories of race and gender at the core of class formation. This volume seeks to initiate a critical and global conversation concerning the ways in which the analysis of the middle classes provides crucial re-readings of how Latin America, as a region, has historically been understood.

South-South Solidarity and the Latin American Left
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 290

South-South Solidarity and the Latin American Left

Transnational solidarity movements often play an important role in reshaping structures of global power. Jessica Stites Mor looks at four in-depth case studies in the Global South, which act as a much-needed road map to navigate our current political climate and show us how solidarity movements might approach future struggles.

Endangered Maize
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 335

Endangered Maize

"Many people worry that we're losing genetic diversity in the foods we eat. Over the past century, crop varieties standardized for industrial agriculture have increasingly dominated farm fields. Concerned about what this transition means for the future of food, scientists, farmers, and eaters have sought to protect crop plants they consider endangered. They have organized high-tech genebanks and heritage seed swaps. They have combed fields for ancient landraces and sought farmers growing Indigenous varieties. Behind this widespread concern for the loss of plant diversity lies another extinction narrative about the survival of farmers themselves, a story that is often obscured by urgent calls...

The Creation of Modern Buenos Aires
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 217

The Creation of Modern Buenos Aires

The Creation of Modern Buenos Aires examines the impact of civic associations on the culture and the society of Buenos Aires and their ties to politics in the first decades of the twentieth century. The period saw the emergence of the modern political system with true appeals to the voters, tremendous urban growth, and the solidification of a barrio identity. Historian Joel Horowitz examines four types of organizations: football clubs, bibliotecas populares (popular libraries), sociedades de fomento (development societies that pushed for barrio improvements), and universidades populares (popular universities that provided practical training beyond the primary school level). All four types be...

Edición y Comunismo
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 296

Edición y Comunismo

Para muchos militantes de la izquierda parte importante de sus actividades se desarrollan en torno a la edicion. Aprender a utilizar el mimeografo, repartir libros, escribir articulos, vender folletos, distribuir hojas sueltas, entre muchas otras practicas, han acompanado a la izquierda a lo largo de su historia. Este trabajo busca reconstruir un fragmento de ese pasado. En especial, se enfoca en los desafios que enfrentaron los militantes comunistas mexicanos en la decada de 1930 para impulsar sus propias ediciones. En los distintos capitulos el lector encontrara desde los aspectos cotidianos, la censura gubernamental, hasta las dinamicas editoriales transnacionales, pasando por las disputas con el anticomunismo o por las acciones epicas de militantes que encontraban en los impresos una forma de hacer la revolucion. Los sujetos implicados buscaban dotar de "teoria a la practica". En definitiva, este libro analiza, desde una perspectiva novedosa, como ese esfuerzo reconfiguro no solo sus cotidianeidades, sino tambien el alcance de su propio proyecto politico.

Detrás del papel
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 442

Detrás del papel

Detrás del papel revela las maneras en que los medios impresos dieron forma a las transformaciones culturales y sociales que acompañaron la emergencia de una sociedad de masas, de manera paralela en Colombia y en Chile. El texto reúne investigaciones que ponen en diálogo la prensa colombiana y chilena de la primera mitad del siglo XX a través de un trabajo colaborativo que reúne a investigadores provenientes de áreas disciplinares como la historia, la literatura, el diseño y los estudios culturales.

Prácticas editoriales y cultura impresa entre los intelectuales latinoamericanos en el siglo xx
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 284