The Routledge Handbook to the History and Society of the Americas

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The colonial heritage and its renewed aftermaths – expressed in the inter-American experiences of slavery, indigeneity, dependence, and freedom movements, to mention only a few aspects – form a common ground of experience in the Western Hemisphere. The flow of peoples, goods, knowledge and finances have promoted interdependence and integration that cut across borders and link the countries of North and South America together. The nature of this transversally related and multiply interconnected region can only be captured through a transnational, multidisciplinary, and comprehensive approach. The Routledge Handbook to the History and Society of the Americas explores the history and society of the Americas, placing particular emphasis on collective and intertwined experiences. Forty-four chapters cover a range of concepts and dynamics in the Americas from the colonial period until the present century: The shared histories and dynamics of Inter-American relationships are considered through pre-Hispanic empires, colonization, European hegemony, migration, multiculturalism, and political and economic interdependences. Key concepts are selected and explored from different geopolitical, disciplinary, and epistemological perspectives. Highlighting the contested character of key concepts that are usually defined in strict disciplinary terms, the Handbook provides the basis for a better and deeper understanding of inter-American entanglements. This multidisciplinary approach will be of interest to a broad array of academic scholars and students in history, sociology, political science cultural, postcolonial, gender, literary, and globalization studies. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Contents List of contributors Academic advisory board Acknowledgments General introduction to the Routledge Handbook to the history and society of the Americas PART I: History and society in the Americas from the 16th to the 19th century 1 Introduction: history and society in the Americas from the 16th to the 19th century. The bigger picture 2 America 3 Atlantic 4 Colonial economies 5 Colonial rule 6 Columbian exchange 7 Conquest and colonization 8 Enlightenment 9 Gender 10 Independence movements 11 Indigenous peoples 12 Interethnic relations 13 Language 14 Memorial culture 15 Migration 16 Nation and state building 17 Religion and missionizing 18 Slavery 19 Unfree labor PART II: History and society in the Americas in the 20th and 21st centuries 20 Introduction: history and society in the Americas in the 20th and 21st centuries. Inter-American thresholds and critical key concepts 21 Alter-globalization 22 Biopolitics 23 Consumerism 24 Education 25 Ethnicity 26 Family 27 Freedom 28 Gender identities 29 Health 30 Hybridity, mestizaje, créolité 31 Indigeneity 32 Intersectionality 33 Latinidad 34 Memory politics 35 Modernization 36 Multiculturalism 37 Popular 38 Postcolonialism and decoloniality 39 Race 40 Religious beliefs 41 Social movements 42 Socialism 43 Subcultures 44 Transnational migration 45 Urbanization 46 Whiteness Index