Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies

Welcome to our RMCLAS virtual book exhibit! We are offering our convention discount of 40% off and free shipping until April 15, 2024 with the code 6RMCLAS24.

We welcome new submissions. To submit a proposal please contact:  

Emily Casillas
Acquisitions Editor
emily.casillas@unl.edu

Bodies and Ecologies

Series Editors: David Carey, Jr. and Elizabeth O’Brien

As agents and objects of environmental change, bodies reflect our complicated relationship with nature. From polluted waterways and airborne toxins to aguas negras and salmonella outbreaks, our health and bodies are inseparable from the world around us. Now more than ever, the links between bodies (human and animal), pathogens, and ecologies are ubiquitous and ripe for historicization.

These themes run throughout Latin American and Caribbean history and society, linking nations, regions, and cultures in the past and present. The colonial legacies of such extractive industries as mining, monoculture, and animal production have spoiled water sources, deforested diverse biomes, and eroded topsoil in ways that have undermined public health. In turn, climatic changes have increased drought, wrought more powerful hurricanes, and expanded flooding zones. All have catalyzed microbial militaries that wreak havoc even after initial devastations subside. These disasters have compelled millions of Latin Americans to leave their homeland and seek refuge in other nations, while migrant laborers living and working in compromised conditions have been susceptible to disease. Water has also long been a site of struggle amongst marginalized communities, scientific and governmental authorities, multinational capitalists, and international philanthropies.

Located at the intersection of the burgeoning fields of environmental history, the history of the body, and the history of medicine, this series encourages and celebrates historians’ growing interest in people’s health and the resources, climates, and technologies that shape it. We invite projects on a variety of topics, including (but not limited to) environmental policy, urban and rural development, agriculture and water, public health policy and activism, biomedical and popular medicine, disease and epidemics, disability and the body, race and the racialization of medicine and the environment, and science and technology.


Confluencias

Series Editors: Susie S. Porter, Diana J. Montaño, and María L. O. Muñoz

This series publishes on a wide range of topics in Mexican history including, but not limited to, the environment, Indigenous peoples, gender, technology, social history, and politics. Our authors represent diverse perspectives, and the series supports first-generation scholars and the voices and views of authors from Mexico, North America, and other parts of the world. The series is aimed at specialists and non-specialists who seek a deeper understanding of Mexico and the Mexican diaspora.


Engendering Latin America

Series Editors: Donna Guy, Sonya Lipsett-Rivera, Anne Macpherson, and Martha Santos

Engendering Latin America attracts, disseminates, and assists in the creation of quality book-length works that examine the social, cultural, and gendered histories of Latin America. The series concentrates on history informed by current debates and research questions that arise from feminist studies, gender-based scholarship, and allied research.

The editors define gender broadly, both geographically and chronologically, to encompass work derived from Latin America and the Caribbean, from colonial to modern times. Covering themes such as feminism, masculinity, culture, ethnicity, public health, modernity, nation-building, race, and politics, Engendering Latin America examines marginal groups such as women, minorities, indigenous peoples, and other non-elites to provide sophisticated interdisciplinary analyses of cultures and gender south of the border.

This series has been inactive for several years, but has recently been relaunched with new series editors.


Series Editors: Rosalyn LaPier, Rudy P. Guevarra, Jr., and Paul Spickard

A venue for the scholarly study of borderlands—of the encounters, intersections, and collisions between peoples and cultures—the books in this series focus on comparative borderlands, multiple identities (borderlands of race, culture, and identity), race in the American West, human migrations, and colonial encounters.

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Unsettling Agribusiness

LaShandra Sullivan

The Road to the Land of the Mother of God

Stephen G. Perz, Jorge Luis Castillo Hurtado

The Enlightened Patrolman

Nicole von Germeten

In Praise of the Ancestors

Susan Elizabeth Ramirez

Cold War Paradise

Atalia Shragai

We Are Not Animals

Martin Rizzo-Martinez, Valentin Lopez

Poisoned Eden

Carlos S. Dimas

A Hemisphere of Women

E. Sue Wamsley

On the Other Shore

John Starosta Galante

A Missionary Nation

Scott Eastman

¡Vamos a avanzar!

Robert Niebuhr

The Aimless Life

Leonard Worcester Jr., Andrew Offenburger

Transmovimientos

Ellie D. Hernandez, Eddy Francisco Alvarez Jr., Magda García

Confederate Exodus

Alan P. Marcus

The Business of Leisure

Andrew Grant Wood

Art Effects

Carlos Fausto, David Rodgers

Landscapes of Inequity

Nicholas A. Robins, Barbara J. Fraser

Matters of Justice

Helga Baitenmann

Predictable Pleasures

Lauren A. Wynne

In the Mean Time

Erin Murrah-Mandril

Risking Immeasurable Harm

Benjamin C. Montoya

Apostle of Progress

Joseph Justin Castro

Hemispheric Indigeneities

Miléna Santoro, Erick D. Langer

Soldiers of the Nation

Harry Franqui-Rivera

In the Lands of Fire and Sun

Michele McArdle Stephens

Curious Unions

Frank P. Barajas

JOURNALS FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS

Click here to download a curated list of Latin American Studies articles from University of Nebraska Press journals.