Episodes
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In this episode, historian Paulina Alberto joins us to talk about her award-winning book Black Legend, published by Cambridge University Press in 2022. Celebrated with the 2023 Bolton-Johnson Prize for Best Book in Latin American History and the 2023 Southern Cone Section Award for Best Book in the Social Sciences, Black Legend has quickly become a must-read. Tune in to discover the groundbreaking insights of Alberto’s second monograph and learn more about her inspiring academic journey.
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El Estado Rural estudia la política interna de una comunidad de la sierra central peruana, desde principios del siglo XX, cuando el estado peruano reconoció la legalidad de las comunidades indígenas, hasta finales del conflicto armado en la década de 1990. Este largo arco temporal permite al autor analizar un siglo de intervenciones estatales y mercantiles en el campo y sus repercusiones en la vida rural.
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Thomas Field Jr. reconstructs the untold story of USAID’s first years in Bolivia, including the 1964 military coup d’état. Field demonstrates that Bolivia’s turn toward an anti-communist, development-oriented dictatorship was the logical and practical culmination of the military-led modernization paradigm that provided the liberal underpinnings of Kennedy’s Alliance for Progress.
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Elizabeth Shesko studies coercion and citizenship in the Bolivian Barracks. She argues conscription evolved into a pact between the state and society. Shesko contends that state formation built around military service has been characterized in Bolivia by multiple layers of negotiation and accommodation.
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Kevin A. Young reveals that Bolivia became a key site in a global battle among economic models, with grassroots coalitions demanding nationalist and egalitarian alternatives to market capitalism.
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Natalie Kimball explores how women decided whether to continue or terminate their pregnancies and the medical practices to which women recurred in their search for reproductive health care between the early 1950s and 2010. It demonstrates that, far from constituting private events with little impact on the public sphere, women’s intimate experiences contributed to changing policies and services in reproductive health in Bolivia.
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Rafael Archondo and Isabel Siles reviewed the life of former President Hernán Siles Zuazo, one of the founding members of the National Revolutionary Movement (MNR) in 1942. This two-time president (1956-1960 and 1982-1985) was instrumental in the consolidation of human rights, civil liberties, and the peaceful transfer of power during the 1980s.
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Los historiadores Lina Britto y Ricardo López Pedreros -editores de dos volúmenes, Historias de soledad e Historias de perplejidad- reflexionan sobre las trayectorias personales y académicas que impulsaron la producción de esta obra, las condiciones de producción de conocimiento en Estados Unidos y América Latina, y la importancia de utilizar Colombia como lente para mirar a las Américas y al mundo.
