The colonial heritage and its renewed aftermaths – expressed in the inter-American experiences of slavery, indigeneity, dependence, and freedom movements, to mention only a few aspects – form a common ground of experience in the Western Hemisphere. The flow of peoples, goods, knowledge and finances have promoted interdependence and integration that cut across borders and link the countries of North and South America together. The nature of this transversally related and multiply interconnected region can only be captured through a transnational, multidisciplinary, and comprehensive approach.
The Routledge Handbook to the History and Society of the Americas explores the history and society of the Americas, placing particular emphasis on collective and intertwined experiences. Forty-four chapters cover a range of concepts and dynamics in the Americas from the colonial period until the present century:
- The shared histories and dynamics of Inter-American relationships are considered through pre-Hispanic empires, colonization, European hegemony, migration, multiculturalism, and political and economic interdependences.
- Key concepts are selected and explored from different geopolitical, disciplinary, and epistemological perspectives.
- Highlighting the contested character of key concepts that are usually defined in strict disciplinary terms, the Handbook provides the basis for a better and deeper understanding of inter-American entanglements.
This multidisciplinary approach will be of interest to a broad array of academic scholars and students in history, sociology, political science cultural, postcolonial, gender, literary, and globalization studies.
Table of Contents:
General Introduction Part I History and Society in the Americas from the 16th to 19th Century Introduction: History and Society in the Americas from the 16th to 19th Century. The Bigger Picture 1 America 2 Atlantic 3 Colonial Economies 4 Colonial Rule 5 Columbian Exchange 6 Conquest and Colonization 7 Enlightenment 8 Gender 9 Independence Movements 10 Indigenous Peoples 11 Inter-ethnic Relations 12 Language 13 Memorial Culture 14 Migration 15 Nation and State Building 16 Religion and Missionizing 17 Slavery 18 Unfree Labor Part II History and Society in the Americas in the 20th and 21st Century Introduction: History and Society in the Americas in the 20th and 21st Century. Inter-American Thresholds and Critical Key Concepts 19 Alter-Globalization 20 Biopolitics 21 Consumerism 22 Education 23 Ethnicity 24 Family 25 Freedom 26 Gender Identities 27 Health 28 Hybridity, Mestizaje, Creolité 29 Indigeneity 30 Intersectionality 31 Latinidad 32 Memory Politics 33 Modernization 34 Multiculturalism 35 Popular 36 Postcolonialism and Decoloniality 37 Race 38 Religious Beliefs 39 Social Movements 40 Socialism 41 Subcultures 42 Transnational Migration 43 Urbanization 44 Whiteness
About the Author :
Olaf Kaltmeier is Professor for Ibero-American History and Director of the Center for Inter-American Studies (CIAS) at Bielefeld University, Germany.
Josef Raab is Professor of North American Studies at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.
Michael Stewart Foley is Professor of American Civilization at the Université Grenoble Alpes.
Alice Nash is Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts, USA.
Stefan Rinke is Professor of History at the Latin American Institute and the Friedrich Meinecke-Institute of Freie Universität Berlin.
Mario Rufer is Professor at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana - Xochimilco, Mexico.
