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A Look at Subnational Regional Identity Formation in Brazil within a Global Perspective

A Richly Illustrated Exploration of John Kane’s Life, the Value and Dignity of Labor, and Who Decides What Is Art and What Is Not

A Rich Ethnography of Grassroots Organizing for Peace in San José de Apartadó

Shows How Catholicism Played a Central Role in the Development of a Scientific Understanding of Race, National Identity, and Human Difference in Chile

Considers the Long History of Political Amnesty and Restitution in Brazil

A History Illustrating Chilean Workers’ Struggles to Achieve Social Justice and Equality, Transform the National Economy, and Resist Oppression

An Original Historical Genealogy of Food and the Consumer in a Dependent Latin American Economy

The Story of Natural Gas’s Rise from Unwanted Byproduct to Essential Fuel Source

The First History of the Destape as a Large-Scale Media Phenomenon and Transformative Force in Sexual Ideologies and Practices

Latin American Journalists Who Endure Grave Danger to Witness and Report Their Truth

The Story of US Relations with the Stroessner Dictatorship

A study of the intermittences of the processes of transitional justice and memory in post-dictatorship Uruguay.

Prince Edward County, Virginia as a microcosm of America’s struggle with race, literacy, and citizenship.

Between 1964 and 1985, Brazil lived under the control of a repressive, anticommunist regime, where generals maintained all power. Despite these circumstances, dozens of young captains, majors, and colonels believed that they too deserved to participate in the exercise of power. For two decades they carried on a clandestine political life that strongly influenced the regime’s evolution. This book tells their story.

Coronado examines photography to further the argument that intellectuals grafted their own notions of indigeneity onto their subjects. He looks specifically at the Cuzco School of Photography (active in the southern Andes) through whose work Coronado argues for photography, in its capacity as a visual and technological practice, as a powerful tool for understanding and shaping what modernity meant in the region.