Institute of Historical ResearchDemocracy, Autocracy and Sovereign Debt in Mexico and Brazil during the pre-1914 GlobalisationLeonardo 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)

Jan 24th, 2017 42m 5s

Institute of Historical ResearchReindigenisation 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

Jan 10th, 2017 59m 25s

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

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

Dec 13th, 2016 39m 38s

Institute of Historical ResearchImperial rivalries, insurgents and spies: Britain and Spain during Latin American IndependenceGregorio Alonso(Leeds)Latin American History seminar series

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

Nov 1st, 2016 44m 8s

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

Psychiatry in Context: the Problem of Degeneration in Brazil

Oct 4th, 2016 44m 36s

Institute of Historical ResearchPsychiatry in Context: the Problem of Degeneration in BrazilCristiana Fachinetti(Fiocruz)Latin American History seminar series

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

Mar 7th, 2016 32m 44s

Institute of Historical ResearchSlavery and Anti-Slavery in the Spanish American Republics during the Nineteenth CenturyMarcela Echeverri(Yale)The history of freedom in the Atlantic world is generally portrayed as especially tied to Angl

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

Feb 23rd, 2016 58m 9s

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

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

Feb 9th, 2016 42m 1s

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

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

Dec 1st, 2015 50m 50s

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

Unthinking the Canon: Latin America and the History of Historiography

Nov 17th, 2015

Institute of Historical ResearchUnthinking the Canon: Latin America and the History of HistoriographyMark Thurner(ILAS)In the late eighteenth century Peruvian intellectuals complained in print that their history "occupies only a diminuti

War and independence in Spanish America, 1810-26

Nov 11th, 2014 57m 25s

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

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

Mar 10th, 2014 1h 36m

Institute of Historical ResearchLow Quality Immigrants to Latin America? Human and Social Capital in Historical MigrationLatin American History

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

Feb 25th, 2014 1h 38m

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

Two Hundred Years of Latin American Constitutionalism: Promises and Problems

Feb 11th, 2014 56m

Institute of Historical ResearchRoberto 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

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

Jan 28th, 2014 1h 34m

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

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

Dec 3rd, 2013 1h 6m

Institute of Historical ResearchThe Colony Strikes back: Colombia, Jersey Standard and the American Payment of Reparations for the Loss of PanamaScholarship on economic imperialism has analyzed this phenomenon as a unidirectional one in whi

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

Nov 29th, 2013 51m 14s

Jo Crow (University of Bristol)Latin American History seminarInstitute of Historical Research22 October 2013

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

Nov 19th, 2013 53m 33s

Institute of Historical ResearchCaterina 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

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

Nov 4th, 2013 1h 15m

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

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

Apr 29th, 2013 49m 46s

Institute of Historical ResearchOf Imperial Centers and Edges: The Problem of the Atlantic (World) for Understandings of the Spanish Habsburg EmpireLatin American HistoryAlejandra Osorio (Wellesley)

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

Apr 29th, 2013 49m 46s

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

The Anarchist Movement in Argentina in International Perspective

Mar 4th, 2013 55m 47s

Institute of Historical ResearchThe Anarchist Movement in Argentina in International PerspectiveJose Moya(Columbia)Latin American History seminar series

Joaquim Nabuco, Abolitionism and the End of Slavery in Brazil

Feb 19th, 2013 1h 1m

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