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John Leddy Phelan (1924–July 24, 1976) was a scholar of colonial Spanish America and the Philippines. He spent the bulk of his scholarly career as a professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison .
In Latin Americanism after 9/11 (2014), he argues for a new situation for Latin America in the emerging global order, especially in view of Hugo Chávez, Evo Morales and other new left figures who have challenged older paradigms of left and right of previous decades. He critiques what he considers the failed politics of Zapatismo, and the ...
The third and latest translation, a collaborative work between John K. Hale and J. Donald Cullington published in 2012 as Volume 8 of Oxford's The Complete Works of John Milton, works from a new transcription of the original manuscript, and publishes the Latin and English translation in a facing-page format. [10]
The book is divided into chapters that address themes that were common throughout Latin America, such as colonialism, independence, progress, neocolonialism, nationalism, and revolution. [2] Other themes that frequently come up in the book include issues of race, ethnicity, and class as well as the formation of republics.
The Hispanic American Historical Review was founded in 1916 at the Cincinnati meeting of the AHA, originally to have had the title Ibero-American Historical Review. [1] [2] In the journal's first issue in 1918, J. Franklin Jameson, one of the founders of the American Historical Association, greeted HAHR's establishment as a step forward ...
The books that made Gunther famous in his time were the "Inside" series of continental surveys. For each book, Gunther traveled extensively through the area the book covered, interviewed political, social, and business leaders; talked with average people; reviewed area statistics; and then wrote a lengthy overview of what he had learned and how he interpreted it.
In “American Historia: The Untold Story of Latinos,” Leguizamo sets the record straight as he delves into U.S. Latino and Latin American history in a three-part series.
The book received mostly positive reviews from critics. [3] In a positive review, writing for The New York Times, writer Tayari Jones stated that the book was an "insightful, ambitious and moving project" that combined many forms of literary technique including history, literary criticism, journalism, and memoir. Jones concluded that the book ...