Escritura de mujeres, escritura de las diferencias by Francesca Gargallo

“…Palabras clave: Escritura de mujeres, Diferencia sexual, Feminismo, Literatura latinoamericana, Narrativa, Poética Abstract: The contemporary history of Latin American literature written by women is traced, showing the themes that delve into sexual difference and its consequences for writing. …”
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Argentina’s participation in the Paraguayan War (1864 – 1870) by Olena Chemodanova

“…The article is devoted to Argentina’s participation in the Paraguayan War (1864–1870) – one of the most tragic pages in the history of Latin America in the 19th century. The aim of the article was to analyze the reasons for Argentina’s engagement to the war, the course of the war, and its consequences for Argentina. …”
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From fossil trader to paleontologist: on Swiss-born naturalist Santiago Roth and his scientific contributions by Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra, Mariano Bond, Marcelo Reguero, Tomás Bartoletti

“…Abstract Roth’s explorations, the resulting collections many now allocated in La Plata, Zurich, Geneva and Copenhagen, and his significant contributions in geological—especially stratigraphic—and paleontological topics, are a paradigmatic case for the global history of paleontology and for the Swiss migration history in Latin America. His work included the discovery of a diverse megafauna from the Pampean region, of sites and strata in Patagonia of paleontological significance, and the recognition of a group of endemic ungulate mammals, Notoungulata. …”
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Couple and Family Relationships in Latin American Social Comparative Studies by Agnaldo Garcia, Júlia Sursis Nobre Ferro Bucher-Maluschke, Daniela Marisol Pérez-Angarita, Yushiara Emily Vargas-Velez, Fábio Nogueira Pereira

“…Couple and family relationships have changed in different aspects in the recent history of Latin America. This paper reviewed comparative studies on couple and family relationships in Latin America published between 2001 and 2015. …”
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Adoption of Double Entry Bookkeeping in Mexico and Spain Adopción de la partida doble en México y España by Bernardo Bátiz-Lazo, J. Julián Hernández Borreguero, J. Carles Maixé-Altés, Miriam Núñez Torrado

“…Our conclusion is that the history of Latin American accounting should be wary of extrapolating everyday practice by interpreting bibliographic material and proceed to pay greater attention to the appropriation of accounting technology through the examination of surviving company documents as well as informal educational practices amongst organizations based in Spain and its colonies.…”
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The implementation of technical assistance program “Point four” by the president of the United States of America Harry Truman in the archival field by Larysa Levchenko

“…Washington based Inter-American Technical Council on Archives (1961) focused on creating archival reference books on the history of Latin America, worked on developing archival legislation, etc. …”
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The Cominternist Origins of Current Socialist Bolivarianism by Victor L. Jeifets, Lazar S. Jeifets

“…The article is based primarily on archival documents, which allowed the authors to show little-known pages in the history of Latin American left-wing parties. Authors’ contribution. …”
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The scholar at work: Varro's study of the Latin language by Lazzerini, F

“…<p>As part of a bigger project to investigate the history and features of Roman culture, Varro set out to study the Latin language in all its components: where its vocabulary came from, and what such derivation revealed about the history of Latin speakers; how its words were arranged into classes based on their morphological features, and to what extent this arrangement was rationally motivated and self-consistent; and how various people used language differently, some employing distinct sections of its lexicon depending on their backgrounds or professions, others bending grammatical rules either out of ignorance or for literary purposes.…”

English Catholic literary culture, 1640-1660 by Archibald, C

Cato the censor and the creation of a paternal paradigm by Browne, E

Introduction to Latin American Studies and the Humanities: Past, Present, Future by Allison Margaret Bigelow, Thomas Miller Klubock

“…Our introduction explains how each essay contributes to our understanding of five key issues in Latin American studies: (1) the relationship between the field’s regionally bound framework and emerging conceptual paradigms like the global South; (2) the potential for interdisciplinary, rather than multidisciplinary, research; (3) how to place Latin American studies in dialogue with ethnic studies; (4) how to rethink the origins of Latin American studies by tracing the long history of Latin America–generated knowledge about the region; and (5) how recent indigenous studies approaches might decolonize the field of Latin American studies. …”
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The Caribbean Cold War: between exile and revolution, 1945-1960 by Prados, N

Imputation performance in Latin American populations: improving rare variants representation with the inclusion of native American genomes by Jiménez-Kaufmann, Andrés, Chong, Amanda Y., Cortés, Adrián, Quinto-Cortés, Consuelo D., Fernandez-Valverde, Selene L., Ferreyra-Reyes, Leticia, Cruz-Hervert, Luis Pablo, Medina-Muñoz, Santiago G., Sohail, Mashaal, Palma-Martinez, María J., Delgado-Sánchez, Gudalupe, Mongua-Rodríguez, Norma, Mentzer, Alexander J., Hill, Adrian V. S., Moreno-Macías, Hortensia, Huerta-Chagoya, Alicia, Aguilar-Salinas, Carlos A., Torres, Michael, Kim, Hie Lim, Kalsi, Namrata, Schuster, Stephan Christoph, Tusié-Luna, Teresa, Del-Vecchyo, Diego Ortega, García-García, Lourdes, Moreno-Estrada, Andrés

“…Due to the complex demographic history of Latin America and the lack of balanced representation of Native American genomes in current imputation panels, the discovery of locally relevant disease variants is likely to be missed, limiting the scope and impact of biomedical research in these populations. …”
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Human Rights and Justice Issues in the 16th Century Philippines by James Loreto Piscos

“…Keen, Banjamin. A History of Latin America, 5th Edition. Vol.1. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1996. …”
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Literature about Latin America during the Era of World War I by Thomas M. Leonard

“…Beyond Geopolitics: New Histories of Latin America at the League of Nations. Edited by Alan McPherson and Yannick Wehrli. …”
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Controlling Their Own Destiny: Latin American Agency in the Context of US Hegemony by Dexter Boniface

“…Beyond the Eagle’s Shadow: New Histories of Latin America’s Cold War. Edited by Virginia Garrard-Burnett, Mark Atwood Lawrence, and Julio E. …”
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How important was Latin America to the First World War? by Phillip Dehne

“…Abstract   This article examines the impact of Latin America on the First World War, fitting into the gap between the existing histories of Latin America that focus on how the Great War impacted each republic and the histories of the First World War that completely ignore Latin America. …”
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English literature in Latin translation, 1580-1750 by Mennis, K

“…This literary history of ‘Latinization’ reveals the real and imagined place of English poetry in the world and the relationship between two competing literary languages as the vernacular rose, showing how contingent that ‘rise’ appeared to be as it happened. …”