Repressed memory: Rethinking the impact of Latin America’s forgotten pandemics
The ‘Columbian exchange’ (Crosby) after 1492 mixed bacteria and viruses from the ‘Old’ and the ‘New World’; ever since then, epidemics have shaped the political course of events in Latin America and the Caribbean. While the diseases and their victims are largely forgotten in collective memory, they...
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| Language: | English |
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CEDLA
2020-06-01
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| Series: | European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://www.erlacs.org/articles/10677 |