Pub Date : 2021-02-01DOI: 10.1215/00182168-8796484
Jacob Blanc
The Prestes Column rebellion is among the most mythologized events in modern Brazil: from 1924 to 1927, a group of junior army officers marched nearly 15,000 miles through Brazil's vast interior regions. This Homeric epic into the so-called backlands launched the careers of some of Brazil's most important figures, and for nearly a century it has attained a mythic status in folklore and political history. Seeking to both explain and intervene in this legend, I argue that the myth of the Prestes Column emerged from and remained tethered to the stigmatized image of the interior. As a corrective to the column's dominant narrative and intervening in scholarship on myths more generally, this article reimagines the interior as both a place and an idea. The enduring symbolism of the backlands shows that exclusion, rather than a byproduct of national mythologies, is the pillar on which the ideas of inclusionary myths are based.
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Pub Date : 2021-02-01DOI: 10.1215/00182168-8796759
Luis Martínez-Fernández
{"title":"A Social History of Cuba's Protestants: God and the Nation","authors":"Luis Martínez-Fernández","doi":"10.1215/00182168-8796759","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-8796759","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45400,"journal":{"name":"Americas","volume":"44 1","pages":"174-176"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75635089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-02-01DOI: 10.1215/00182168-8796671
Ryan C. Edwards
{"title":"Soberanías fronterizas: Estados y capital en la colonización de Patagonia (Argentina y Chile, 1830–1922)","authors":"Ryan C. Edwards","doi":"10.1215/00182168-8796671","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-8796671","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45400,"journal":{"name":"Americas","volume":"101 1","pages":"161-163"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81094009","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-02-01DOI: 10.1215/00182168-8796693
Iván Valdez-Bubnov
{"title":"Vientos de guerra: Apogeo y crisis de la Real Armada, 1750–1823","authors":"Iván Valdez-Bubnov","doi":"10.1215/00182168-8796693","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-8796693","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45400,"journal":{"name":"Americas","volume":"44 1","pages":"165-166"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88487681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-02-01DOI: 10.1215/00182168-8796627
Manuel Bastias Saavedra
{"title":"To the Shores of Chile: The “Journal and History” of the Brouwer Expedition to Valdivia in 1643","authors":"Manuel Bastias Saavedra","doi":"10.1215/00182168-8796627","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-8796627","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45400,"journal":{"name":"Americas","volume":"33 1","pages":"154-156"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91317670","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-02-01DOI: 10.1215/00182168-8796462
Diana J. Montaño
This essay explores Mexico City's electrification in the early twentieth century through the lens of power theft. The arrest and resulting trial of dozens of capitalinos (Mexico City residents) suspected of power theft allow us to document the nuances of policing and prosecuting a modern crime and thus to explore how notions of policing, private property, space, honor, and even decency influenced how people secured and used electricity. Using 63 cases tried before the Tribunal Superior de Justicia del Distrito Federal (Federal District Higher Court) and newspaper and legal debate on power theft, this article examines how capitalinos could flip seamlessly between the elitist, scripted, proper use of electricity and the ad-libbed, improper use that fit their needs in specific circumstances. By grounding electrification in everyday life, this article argues that capitalinos emerge as agents of technological change, people who understood the importance of electricity to transform their lives and spaces.
这篇文章通过电力盗窃的镜头探讨了二十世纪初墨西哥城的电气化。对数十名涉嫌盗窃电力的墨西哥城居民的逮捕和审判，让我们得以记录下监管和起诉现代犯罪的细微差别，从而探索监管、私有财产、空间、荣誉甚至体面的概念如何影响人们获取和使用电力的方式。本文以联邦高等法院(Tribunal Superior de Justicia del Distrito Federal)审理的63起案件，以及报纸和法律上关于窃电的辩论为例，探讨了资本家如何在精英式的、照本宣读的、正确使用电力和在特定情况下符合他们需要的即兴的、不适当的使用电力之间无缝切换。通过在日常生活中接地电气化，本文认为资本家成为技术变革的推动者，他们理解电力对改变他们的生活和空间的重要性。
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Pub Date : 2021-02-01DOI: 10.1215/00182168-8796451
V. Deusen, E. Nancy
This article considers the creation and activation of certification documents codifying the capture-event and moment of enslavement of Reche-Mapuche people during the Araucanian wars with Spanish settlers in seventeenth-century Chile. Certification documents were normalized by the military bureaucracy and activated by slave owners who subjected and maintained Reche-Mapuche men, women, and children in bondage. These documents were foundational because they could reproduce what purportedly happened in other documentary and oral forms and facilitated the circulation of essentialized truths about the enslavement of individuals and about slavery writ large. In their legal petitions for freedom, Reche-Mapuche slaves had to speak against the grain of these legal instrumenta, which expressed a legally enforceable act or action as well as evidence of that action. Certification documents also had an archival afterlife following enactment of the abolition of Indigenous slavery in 1679.
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Pub Date : 2021-02-01DOI: 10.1215/00182168-8796517
Carmen María Fallas Santana
{"title":"The Legacy of the Filibuster War: National Identity and Collective Memory in Central America","authors":"Carmen María Fallas Santana","doi":"10.1215/00182168-8796517","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-8796517","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45400,"journal":{"name":"Americas","volume":"38 1","pages":"136-138"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82357075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-02-01DOI: 10.1215/00182168-8796825
E. Daniel
{"title":"No Barrier Can Contain It: Cuban Antifascism and the Spanish Civil War","authors":"E. Daniel","doi":"10.1215/00182168-8796825","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-8796825","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45400,"journal":{"name":"Americas","volume":"84 1","pages":"184-185"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83909113","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-02-01DOI: 10.1215/00182168-8796902
Alan McPherson
{"title":"Brazil's Revolution in Commerce: Creating Consumer Capitalism in the American Century","authors":"Alan McPherson","doi":"10.1215/00182168-8796902","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-8796902","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45400,"journal":{"name":"Americas","volume":"14 1","pages":"196-197"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81197913","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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