The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Nineteenth-Century Latin America

The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Nineteenth-Century Latin America provides a unique, comprehensive, and critical overview of Latin American studies in the nineteenth century, including the major regions and subfields.

The essays in this collection offer a complex, yet accessible transdisciplinary overview of the heterogeneous and asynchronous historical, political, and cultural processes that account for the becoming of Latin America in the nineteenth century--from Mexico and the Caribbean Basin to the Southern Cone. The thematic division of the book into six parts allows for a better understanding of the ways in which different themes are interrelated and affords readers the opportunity to draw their own connections among subfields. The volume assembles a robust sample of recent and innovative scholarship on the subject, reformulating from fresh perspectives commonly held views on the issues that characterized the era. Additionally, it provides an overarching analysis of the field and introduces cutting-edge concepts all within one expansive volume, opening the dialogue about topics that share common denominators and modeling how those topics can be approached from a variety of perspectives.

The innovative volume will be of interest to students and scholars of Latin American studies and Spanish studies. Readers unfamiliar with the period will acquire a comprehensive view of its complexities, while specialists will discover new interpretations and archives.

Agnes Lugo-Ortiz is Associate Professor of Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Studies at the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, USA, where she also co-coordinates the Working Group on Slavery and Visual Culture. Her publications include Identidades imaginadas: biografía y nacionalidad en el horizonte de la guerra (Cuba 1860-1898) and the collection Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World (co-edited with Angela Rosenthal).

Graciela Montaldo is a professor at Columbia University in the City of New York, USA. Her research explores Latin American cultural history, focusing on the production and circulation of cultural practices as they intersect with politics. She is the author of Museum of Consumption. Archives of Mass Culture in Argentina (2021), and co-editor of The Argentina Reader. History. Culture. Politics, among other publications.