This thesis researches the ideological influence of the United States in the early republics of Chile and Argentina, as well as the ideas that in the United States shaped its relationship with the Spanish speaking nations in the hemisphere, in the early nineteenth century. Unite…
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The mutually constitutive relationship between constructions of social identity and collective memory is mediated by cultural tools. Across four studies, I explored the relationship between ethnic and national identity and engagement with the final report of the Commission for H…
Between 1574–1581, the Dominican friar Diego Durán collaborated with multiple painters to produce an account of the Aztec past that comprised a catalogue of gods, a description of the ancient calendar, and a granular history of Aztec imperial politics. Ostensibly created as a gu…
The purpose of this work is to ascertain whether Mexico was a part of Great Britain’s informal empire, which hinges primarily on economic dependence. After independence, Mexico’s image as a resource-rich land attracted British investment, but political instability and its long-h…
Esta investigación explora algunos aspectos culturales de la sociedad decimonónica en Puerto Rico a través del binomio amor/ matrimonio como categorías historiográficas. Explorando la literatura producida en Puerto Rico en el siglo XIX, puede distinguirse una desvinculación entr…
Compared to other disciplines, one of the distinctive features of Economics is the impossibility of doing experiments to study empirically relevant questions. In this dissertation, I use two episodes from the past where the unique features of the institutional environment create…
Before, during, and after the Costa Rican Revolution of 1948 and the Costa Rica-Nicaragua Crisis of 1948-1949, the Truman Administration maintained a posture of strict neutrality and helped to isolate, and bring a quick end to, both conflicts. This thesis attempts to revise the …
Fevers had a significant presence in Mexico's sixteenth-century medical manuscripts, a consequence of the endemic and epidemic infections common to the pre and post-Hispanic eras. The distinctly Aztec conceptualization of these fevers invites further inquiry into the Aztec medic…
This project examines how indigenous agrarian communities in Mexico’s Central Highlands used both legal and extralegal strategies to maintain their access to water while facing increasing environmental changes and competition from private landholders, cities, and other indigenou…
This dissertation investigates the role of civic-ceremonial plazas in the formation and maintenance of the Preclassic period Maya centers of Cival, Holmul, and Witzna located in the Cival region in northern Guatemala. Ancient Maya public plazas are largely understudied by archae…
With an occupation that lasted almost 2000 years (1100 BC-AD 930), the ancient Maya center of Ceibal, located in the Maya lowlands of Guatemala, offers an important opportunity to expand our understanding of how increasing political centralization and social inequality are refle…
This thesis investigates the situation of the Peter Crossley-Holland collection of ancient west Mexican artefacts at Bangor University, focussing on issues of ownership, display, collecting practices, dissemination, and sustainability. It explores the circumstances of the collec…
The journal América (Mexico City, 1940-1960) was founded as a leftist monthly focused on politically uniting Latin American and exiled Spanish youth and, by the end of its print life, was a semifrequent literary anthology sponsored by the Mexican government’s Secretaria de Educa…
The following work undertakes a project which has been within the scope of recent studies in race and racism, especially at a level which seeks to understand the impact of racial dynamics beyond the scope of the US. That is, in this essay I hope to return to the question of raci…
Cali’s Festival, known as the local feria or the “Sugarcane Festival” is now recognized as one of Colombia’s largest urban celebrations. Inaugurated in 1957, right in the midst of bloody political confrontations, the feria occurred every December and was promoted since its incep…
"Nicaragua Libre": A Transnational History of the Nicaraguan Revolution & Counterrevolution, 1972-1990” examines various visions of Nicaraguan liberation. These competing ideologies led to the Nicaraguan Revolution’s triumph and defeat. By investigating the development of these …
This study interrogates the ritual function of Aztec agricultural deities across various media to discover how material objects were perceived as animate and sacred. In addition, it addresses the following themes as they relate to the objects themselves: the instantiation of sac…
This thesis analyzes the 1947 National Security Act, a Truman enacted policy that restructured and reorganized the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), & the National Security Act (NSC) as key organization concerned with U.S. national security, intelli…
This dissertation analyzes the evolution of psychiatric medicine in Mexico City from 1850 through 1910 by examining two mental hospitals one for men, Hospital San Hipólito, and one for women, Hospital Divino Salvador. I argue that European based ideas of mental pathologies arriv…