Pitt Latin American Series
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Series Editor: Catherine M. Conaghan, Queen’s University (Ontario)

The Pitt Latin American Series began in 1968. Since then the series has grown to include a wide array of distinguished books from a variety of disciplinary, ideological, and methodological perspectives on every aspect of Latin American history, politics, society, economics, and culture. The series continues to thrive as it enters its sixth decade with a renewed sense of purpose.

For a Proper Home Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 360
ISBN: 9780822963110
Pub Date: 05 Jan 2015
Description:
From 1967 to 1973, a period that culminated in the socialist project of Salvador Allende, nearly 400,000 low-income Chileans illegally seized parcels of land on the outskirts of Santiago. Remarkably, today almost all of these individuals live in homes with property titles. As Edward Murphy shows, this transformation came at a steep price, through an often-violent political and social struggle that continues to this day.
Resource Extraction and Protest in Peru Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9780822963097
Pub Date: 22 Sep 2014
Description:
Natural resource extraction has fueled protest movements in Latin America and existing research has drawn considerable scholarly attention to the politics of antimarket contention at the national level, particularly in Ecuador, Bolivia, and Argentina. Despite its residents reporting the third-highest level of protest participation in the region, Peru has been largely ignored in these discussions. In this groundbreaking study, Moisés Arce exposes a longstanding climate of popular contention in Peru.
Acting Inca Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9780822962328
Pub Date: 24 Jun 2013
Description:
For most of the postcolonial era, the Aymara Indians of highland Bolivia were a group without representation in national politics. Believing that their cause would finally be recognized, the Aymara fought alongside the victorious liberals during the Civil War of 1899. Despite Aymara loyalty, liberals quickly moved to marginalize them after the war.
Race and the Chilean Miracle Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9780822962373
Pub Date: 07 Jun 2013
Description:
The economic reforms imposed by Augusto Pinochet’s regime (1973–1990) are often credited with transforming Chile into a global economy and setting the stage for a peaceful transition to democracy, individual liberty, and the recognition of cultural diversity. The famed economist Milton Friedman would later describe the transition as the \u201cMiracle of Chile.\u201d Yet, as Patricia Richards reveals, beneath this veneer of progress lies a reality of social conflict and inequity that has been perpetuated by many of the same neoliberal programs.
Transformations and Crisis of Liberalism in Argentina, 1930–1955 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9780822962038
Pub Date: 30 Sep 2012
Description:
Nállim chronicles the decline of liberalism in Argentina during the volatile period between two military coups—the 1930 overthrow of Hipólito Yrigoyen and the deposing of Juan Perón in 1955. While historians have primarily focused on liberalism in economic or political contexts, Nállim instead documents a wide range of locations where liberalism was claimed and ultimately marginalized in the pursuit of individual agendas. Nállim shows how concepts of liberalism were espoused by various groups who “invented traditions” to legitimatize their methods of political, religious, class, intellectual, or cultural hegemony.
Bound Lives Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 280
ISBN: 9780822961932
Pub Date: 15 May 2012
Description:
Bound Lives chronicles the lived experience of race relations in northern coastal Peru during the colonial era. Rachel Sarah OÆToole examines the construction of a casta (caste) system under the Spanish government, and how this system was negotiated and employed by Andeans and Africans. Royal and viceregal authorities defined legal identities of \u201cIndian\u201d and \u201cBlack\u201d to separate the two groups and commit each to specific trades and labor.
Media, Sound, and Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9780822961871
Pub Date: 06 Apr 2012
Description:
Outside of music, the importance of sound and listening have been greatly overlooked in Latin American history. Visual media has dominated cultural studies, affording an incomplete record of the modern era. This edited volume presents an original analysis of the role of sound in Latin American and Caribbean societies, from the late nineteenth century to the present.
Salt and the Colombian State Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9780822961802
Pub Date: 30 Jan 2012
Description:
In republican Colombia, salt became an important source of revenue not just to individuals, but to the state, which levied taxes on it and in some cases controlled and profited from its production. The salt trade consistently accounted for roughly ten percent of government income.In the town of la Salina de Chita, in Boyac\u00e1 province, thermal springs offered vast amounts of salt, and its procurement and distribution was placed under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Finance.
Highland Indians and the State in Modern Ecuador Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 360
ISBN: 9780822961468
Pub Date: 21 Nov 2011
Description:
Highland Indians and the State in Modern Ecuador chronicles the changing forms of indigenous engagement with the Ecuadorian state since the early nineteenth century that, by the beginning of the twenty-first century, had facilitated the growth of the strongest unified indigenous movement in Latin America. Built around nine case studies from nineteenth- and twentieth-century Ecuador, Highland Indians and the State in Modern Ecuador presents state formation as an uneven process, characterized by tensions and contradictions, in which Indians and other subalterns actively participated. It examines how indigenous peoples have attempted, sometimes successfully, to claim control over state formation in order to improve their relative position in society.
City at the Center of the World Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 312
ISBN: 9780822961666
Pub Date: 04 Nov 2011
Description:
In the seventeenth century, local Jesuits and Franciscans imagined Quito as the \u201cnew Rome.\u201d It was the site of miracles and home of saintly inhabitants, the origin of crusades into the surrounding wilderness, and the purveyor of civilization to the entire region. By the early twentieth century, elites envisioned the city as the heart of a modern, advanced society—poised at the physical and metaphysical centers of the world.
Dignifying Argentina Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 344
ISBN: 9780822961703
Pub Date: 21 Aug 2011
Description:
During the mid-twentieth century, Latin American countries witnessed unprecedented struggles over the terms of national sovereignty, civic participation, and social justice. Nowhere was this more visible than in Peronist Argentina (1946–1955), where Juan and Eva Per\u00f3n led the regionÆs largest populist movement in pursuit of new political hopes and material desires. Eduardo Elena considers this transformative moment from a fresh perspective by exploring the intersection of populism and mass consumption.
Vigorous Core of Our Nationality, The Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 360
ISBN: 9780822961338
Pub Date: 30 Mar 2011
Description:
The Vigorous Core of Our Nationality explores conceptualizations of regional identity and a distinct population group known as nordestinos in northeastern Brazil during a crucial historical period. Beginning with the abolition of slavery and ending with the demise of the Estado Novo under Get\u00falio Vargas, Stanley E. Blake offers original perspectives on the paradoxical concept of the nordestino and the importance of these debates to the process of state and nation building.
Cultures of the City Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 264
ISBN: 9780822961208
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2010
Description:
Cultures of the City explores the cultural mediation of relationships between people and urban spaces in Latin/o America and how these mediations shape the identities of cities and their residents.Addressing a broad spectrum of phenomena and disciplinary approaches, the contributors to this volume analyze lived urban experiences and their symbolic representation in cultural texts. Individual chapters explore Havana in popular music; Mexico City in art; Buenos Aires, Recife, and Salvador in film; and Asuncion and Buenos Aires in literature.
Poverty of Democracy Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
ISBN: 9780822960782
Pub Date: 28 Nov 2010
Description:
Political participation rates have declined steadily in Mexico since the 1990s. The decline has been most severe among the poor, producing a stratified pattern that more and more mirrors MexicoÆs severe socioeconomic inequalities. Poverty of Democracy examines the political marginalization of MexicoÆs poor despite their key role in the struggle for democracy.
Medicine and Politics in Colonial Peru Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
ISBN: 9780822961116
Pub Date: 24 Oct 2010
Description:
By the end of the eighteenth century, Peru had witnessed the decline of its once-thriving silver industry and had barely begun to recover from massive population losses due to smallpox and other diseases. At the time, it was widely believed that economic salvation was contingent upon increasing the labor force and maintaining as many healthy workers as possible. In Medicine and Politics in Colonial Peru, Adam Warren presents a groundbreaking study of the primacy placed on medical care to generate population growth during this era.
I Sweat the Flavor of Tin Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 248
ISBN: 9780822961178
Pub Date: 26 Sep 2010
Description:
On June 4, 1923, the Bolivian military turned a machine gun on striking miners in the northern Potos\u00ed town of Unc\u00eda. The incident is remembered as BoliviaÆs first massacre of industrial workers. The violence in Unc\u00eda highlights a formative period in the development of a working class who would eventually challenge the oligarchic control of the nation.