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Latin American History seminars at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London.

School of Advanced Study, University of London


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    Democracy, Autocracy and Sovereign Debt in Mexico and Brazil during the pre-1914 Globalisation

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 20, 2017 58:14


    Institute of Historical Research Democracy, Autocracy and Sovereign Debt in Mexico and Brazil during the pre-1914 Globalisation Leonardo Weller (Fundação Getúlio Vargas, São Paulo) Sovereign debt is a financial as well as a political topi...

    Democracy, Autocracy and Sovereign Debt in Mexico and Brazil during the pre-1914 Globalisation

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 20, 2017


    Institute of Historical Research Democracy, Autocracy and Sovereign Debt in Mexico and Brazil during the pre-1914 Globalisation Leonardo Weller (Fundação Getúlio Vargas, São Paulo) Sovereign debt is a financial as well as a political topi...

    Reindigenisation and Culture in the Andes (Nineteenth Century)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 23, 2017 42:05


    Institute of Historical Research Reindigenisation and Culture in the Andes (Nineteenth Century) Adrian Pearce (University College London) Latin American History seminar series

    Using Painted Maps as Evidence: Images in Colonial Mexico's Land Grant Proceedings

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 9, 2017 59:25


    Institute of Historical Research Using Painted Maps as Evidence: Images in Colonial Mexico's Land Grant Proceedings Ana Pulido-Rull (University of Arkansas) Latin American History seminar series

    Imperial rivalries, insurgents and spies: Britain and Spain during Latin American Independence

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 12, 2016 39:38


    Institute of Historical Research Imperial rivalries, insurgents and spies: Britain and Spain during Latin American Independence Gregorio Alonso (Leeds) Latin American History seminar series

    The Party of Order and Progress: The European revolutions of 1848 and the Mexican Conservative Party

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 31, 2016 44:08


    Institute of Historical Research The Party of Order and Progress: The European revolutions of 1848 and the Mexican Conservative Party Ed Shawcross (University College London) The study of conservatism has often been seen as a topic of second...

    Psychiatry in Context: the Problem of Degeneration in Brazil

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 3, 2016 44:36


    Institute of Historical Research Psychiatry in Context: the Problem of Degeneration in Brazil Cristiana Fachinetti (Fiocruz) Latin American History seminar series

    Slavery and Anti-Slavery in the Spanish American Republics during the Nineteenth Century

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 7, 2016 32:44


    Institute of Historical Research Slavery and Anti-Slavery in the Spanish American Republics during the Nineteenth Century Marcela Echeverri (Yale) The history of freedom in the Atlantic world is generally portrayed as especially tied to Anglo...

    New Considerations behind the Fiscal Failure of the First Mexican Republic, 1824-1837

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 22, 2016 58:09


    Institute of Historical Research New Considerations behind the Fiscal Failure of the First Mexican Republic, 1824-1837 Luis Jauregui (Instituto Mora, Mexico) In the last four decades much has been written about the evolution and failure of th...

    (Trans)Nationalism: Migrant and Diasporic Radicalism in Early Cold War Latin America

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 8, 2016 42:01


    Institute of Historical Research (Trans)Nationalism: Migrant and Diasporic Radicalism in Early Cold War Latin America William Booth (UCL) This paper will examine the interaction between internationalist leftism, transnational activism and pro...

    West African Warfare in Bahia and Cuba: Soldier Slaves in the Atlantic World, 1807-1844

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 30, 2015 50:50


    Institute of Historical Research West African Warfare in Bahia and Cuba: Soldier Slaves in the Atlantic World, 1807-1844 Manuel Barcia (University of Leeds) Latin American History seminar series

    Unthinking the Canon: Latin America and the History of Historiography

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 16, 2015


    Institute of Historical Research Unthinking the Canon: Latin America and the History of Historiography Mark Thurner (ILAS) In the late eighteenth century Peruvian intellectuals complained in print that their history "occupies only a diminutiv...

    War and independence in Spanish America, 1810-26

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 10, 2014 57:25


    Institute of Historical Research War and independence in Spanish America, 1810-26 Professor Anthony MacFarlane (University of Warwick) Latin American History seminar series

    Low Quality Immigrants to Latin America? Human and Social Capital in Historical Migration

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 10, 2014 96:31


    Institute of Historical Research Low Quality Immigrants to Latin America? Human and Social Capital in Historical Migration Latin American History

    Towards a More Educated Citizenry? Educational Policies and Outcomes in Peru, 1870 - 1960

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2014 98:26


    Institute of Historical Research Towards a More Educated Citizenry? Educational Policies and Outcomes in Peru, 1870 - 1960 Leticia Arroyo Abad (Middlebury College) In the early 20th century, the Peruvian government sought to "liberate people f...

    Two Hundred Years of Latin American Constitutionalism: Promises and Problems

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 10, 2014 56:00


    Institute of Historical Research Roberto Gargarella (Universidad Torcuato di Tella/Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor, UCL Institute of the Americas) In this paper, I provide an analytical framework in order to understand the development of Lati...

    Learning from the Experience of a Town in Peru's Central Andes, 1931-1948

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2014 94:41


    Institute of Historical Research The Promise of APRA and Why it Failed: Learning from the Experience of a Town in Peru's Central Andes, 1931-1948 Fiona Wilson (IDS/Sussex) The Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana (APRA) had allowed provinc...

    The Colony Strikes back: Colombia, Jersey Standard and the American Payment of Reparations for the Loss of Panama

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 2, 2013 66:46


    Institute of Historical Research The Colony Strikes back: Colombia, Jersey Standard and the American Payment of Reparations for the Loss of Panama Scholarship on economic imperialism has analyzed this phenomenon as a unidirectional one in which t...

    Troubled Negotiations: Mapuche-Chilean Relations in the Early Independence Era (1810-1830)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 29, 2013 51:14


    Jo Crow (University of Bristol) Latin American History seminar Institute of Historical Research 22 October 2013

    The Three Pillars of the Indigenous Household: Buildings, Land, and Saints in Colonial Mexico

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 18, 2013 53:33


    Institute of Historical Research Caterina Pizzigoni (Columbia University) The talk will address a new interpretation of the indigenous household composition and its changes over time, comparing it to the Spanish house structure as well as to what...

    Visions of 'The New Argentina': Political Culture, Images and Peronist doctrine (1950-1955)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 4, 2013 75:25


    Juan Pablo Artinian (Stony Brook University) 8 October 2013 Institute of Historical Research This paper analyses the cultural production of Peronism from 1950 until his fall in 1955 across a variety of visual sources — among other culture artifa...

    The Problem of the Atlantic (World) for Understandings of the Spanish Habsburg Empire

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 29, 2013 49:46


    Institute of Historical Research Of Imperial Centers and Edges: The Problem of the Atlantic (World) for Understandings of the Spanish Habsburg Empire Latin American History Alejandra Osorio (Wellesley)

    Of Imperial Centers and Edges: The Problem of the Atlantic (World) for Understandings of the Spanish Habsburg Empire

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 29, 2013 49:46


    Institute of Historical Research Of Imperial Centers and Edges: The Problem of the Atlantic (World) for Understandings of the Spanish Habsburg Empire Alejandra Osorio (Wellesley) Latin American History seminar series

    The Anarchist Movement in Argentina in International Perspective

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2013 55:47


    Institute of Historical Research The Anarchist Movement in Argentina in International Perspective Jose Moya (Columbia) Latin American History seminar series

    Joaquim Nabuco, Abolitionism and the End of Slavery in Brazil

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 18, 2013 61:51


    Institute of Historical Research Joaquim Nabuco, Abolitionism and the End of Slavery in Brazil Leslie Bethell (King's College London) Latin American History seminar series

    La Dictablanda: Soft Authoritarianism in Mexico, 1940-1968

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 7, 2013 34:27


    Institute of Historical Research La Dictablanda: Soft Authoritarianism in Mexico, 1940-1968 Ben Smith (Warwick) Latin American History seminar series

    Conceiving Freedom: Women and the Abolition of Slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 26, 2012 43:29


    Institute of Historical Research Conceiving Freedom: Women and the Abolition of Slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro Camillia Cowling (Edinburgh) Latin American History seminar series

    Social Dissolution: A History of Article 145 of the Mexican Penal Code, 1941-1970

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 12, 2012 46:13


    Institute of Historical Research Social Dissolution: A History of Article 145 of the Mexican Penal Code, 1941-1970 Halbert Jones (Oxford) Latin American History seminar series

    Rent versus Production: Political Economy and Economic Culture in Venezuela, 1830-2010

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 29, 2012 34:37


    Institute of Historical Research Rent versus Production: Political Economy and Economic Culture in Venezuela, 1830-2010 Sarah Washbrook (Manchester) Latin American History seminar series

    Embodying Race in Colonial Spanish America

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 15, 2012 45:41


    Institute of Historical Research Embodying Race in Colonial Spanish America Rebecca Earle (Warwick) Latin American History seminar series

    From Marx to Metrics in Latin America's Economic History

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 1, 2012 38:52


    Institute of Historical Research From Marx to Metrics in Latin America's Economic History John Coatsworth (Columbia) Latin American History seminar series

    The Bolivian Revolution at 60: Politics and Historiography

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2012 59:02


    Institute of Historical Research The Bolivian Revolution at 60: Politics and Historiography James Dunkerley (Queen Mary, University of London) Latin American History seminar series

    The Political Economy of Royal Emotions: Ruling the Spanish Empire in the Seventeenth Century

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2012 49:33


    Institute of Historical Research The Political Economy of Royal Emotions: Ruling the Spanish Empire in the Seventeenth Century Alejandro Caneque (University of Maryland, USA) Latin American History seminar series

    Was the Mexican Revolution a Success?

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 20, 2012 59:53


    Institute of Historical Research Was the Mexican Revolution a Success? Alan Knight (Oxford) Mexico in 1910 was a country beginning the path toward a long and bitter uprising that before its end would turn into a full-scale civil war and event...

    Taxation and Society in Twentieth Century Argentina

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2012 38:55


    Institute of Historical Research Taxation and Society in Twentieth Century Argentina José Antonio Sánchez Román (Universidad Complutense, Spain) Latin American History seminar series

    Of 'Savages' and Sailors: British Consular Contacts with the Mapuche of Chile during the 1820s and 1830s

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 9, 2012 43:45


    Institute of Historical Research Of 'Savages' and Sailors: British Consular Contacts with the Mapuche of Chile during the 1820s and 1830s Manuel Llorca (Universidad de Chile) Latin American History seminar series

    Rothschild, Quicksilver and Mining: A Global Monopoly from a Bolivian Perspective

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 28, 2011 56:16


    Institute of Historical Research Rothschild, Quicksilver and Mining: A Global Monopoly from a Bolivian Perspective Tristan Platt (St Andrews) Latin American History seminar series

    Great wealth in Argentina, 1810-1930

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 14, 2011 57:28


    Institute of Historical Research Great wealth in Argentina, 1810-1930 Roya Hora (Universidad Nacional de Quilmes) Very little research has been done on the very wealthy of Argentina between the late colonial period and the beginning of the Se...

    Citizens in Arms: The Army, the Militias and he National Guards and the Creation of the Peruvian State (1821-1861)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 31, 2011 44:34


    Institute of Historical Research Citizens in Arms: The Army, the Militias and he National Guards and the Creation of the Peruvian State (1821-1861) Natalia Sobrevilla (Kent) To what degree was there a military institution in nineteenth centur...

    Weetman Pearson and Mexican National Development 1889-1919

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2011 49:03


    Institute of Historical Research Weetman Pearson and Mexican National Development 1889-1919 Paul Garner (Leeds) Latin American History seminar series

    Mexican Nationalism: History and Theory

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 3, 2011 62:52


    Institute of Historical Research Mexican Nationalism: History and Theory David Brading (Cambridge) In 1821 Mexico gained independence from Spain and formed a Republic. By the 1880s a ‘reformation’ had begun to occur in the Mexican churc...

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