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The global history of Latin America*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2015

Matthew Brown
Matthew Brown*
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Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, University of Bristol, 15 Woodland Road, Bristol, BS8 1TE, UK E-mail: matthew.brown@bristol.ac.uk
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Abstract

This article explains why historians of Latin America have been disinclined to engage with global history, and how global history has yet to successfully integrate Latin America into its debates. It analyses research patterns and identifies instances of parallel developments in the two fields, which have operated until recently in relative isolation from one another, shrouded and disconnected. It outlines a framework for engagement between Latin American history and global history, focusing particularly on the significant transformations of the understudied nineteenth century. It suggests that both global history and Latin American history will benefit from recognition of the existing work that has pioneered a path between the two, and from enhanced and sustained dialogue.

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commoditiesdecolonialityempirehistoriographyLatin America
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Journal of Global History , Volume 10 , Issue 3 , November 2015 , pp. 365 - 386
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Footnotes

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This article was originally presented as a keynote lecture to the University of Oxford Centre of Global History workshop on Latin America on 12 March 2014. I thank all of the participants for their suggestions for improvement. I acknowledge the insights of the editors and anonymous reviewers of the Journal of Global History, and the formational conversations that I have had with Paula Caffarena, Joanna Crow, Paulo Drinot, Andrew Ginger, Nicola Foote, Alan Knight, Su Lin Lewis, Chris Manias, Fernando Padilla Angulo, and Jonathan Saha, which have assisted me in articulating some of these thoughts.

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