Political Modernity in Latin America: The Nineteenth Century by Ulrich Mücke

“…ISBN: 9781781381328. The Vanguard of the Atlantic World: Creating Modernity, Nation, and Democracy in Nineteenth-Century Latin America. …”
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Gender Reconfigurations and Family Ideology in Abdul Rauf Felpete’s Latin American Haqqaniyya by Marta Domínguez Díaz

“…This article discusses the ideas about gender contained in the <i>Enseñanzas Sufíes Para Los Tiempos Actuales</i>, a text by Abdul Rauf Felpete, the leader of the Naqshbandiyya Haqqaniyya in Latin America, probably the largest Sufi group in the continent. …”
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“Professionals in a Soviet America” Federal Housing Policy, the Popular Front, and Architects in Los Angeles, 1919–1947 by Heard, James

“…In the wake of the first Red Scare, Marie Meloney, editor of the women’s magazine “The Delineator,” founded Better Homes in America, a national organization to promote the ideal American home through publications, model homes, and local events. …”
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MILITARY INVOLVEMENT IN LATIN AMERICAN POLITICS by Kruijt, Dirk

“…During the last two centuries, the military in Latin America has been involved in politics in a characteristic duality of professionalism and political ‘calling’, by political armies of the right and the left. …”
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De la marge à l’avant-garde : Conversation From Life d’Alice Childress ou la promotion de la lutte des domestiques noires by Grégory Bekhtari

“…Mildred, the main character, symbolizes the possible transition of black women from the margins to the vanguard of the struggles for black people’s, workers’, and women’s rights, and for peace.…”
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Palestinian student and youth movements in protracted settler-colonialism. The (re)elaboration of strategies of liberation by Mjriam Abu Samra

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Rebel Youths: English-language anarchist periodicals of the Great Depression, 1932–1939 by Morris Brodie

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Martians in the favela: religion and revolution in Rio de Janeiro by Michael Rom

“…By analysing Syrkis’s life history through the lens of religion, this article broadens the study of cultures of militancy during Latin America’s Cold War.…”
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La ruptura alienante: tradición, vanguardias y posmodernismo by Roberto PINHEIRO MACHADO

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Kontradiksi Demokrasi Liberal dan “Akhir Sejarah” Yang Tertunda by Eva Novi Karina

“…With economic and political liberalism, societies of Western Europe and North America “at the vanguard of civilization” considered have reached the endpoint of humankind’s ideological evolution hence Western liberal democracy has been perceived as the final form of human government. …”
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Colour Communications: László Moholy-Nagy, Walter Paepcke, and the Humanities Program of Design Workshops by Justus Nieland

“…The essay demonstrates Moholy-Nagy and Paepcke’s overlapping investments in colour’s functional, communicative dimensions at the School, and argues that colour film production in Design Workshops fuelled a vanguard humanities vision at mid-century. The essay reads Design Workshops as an allegory of that vision and its limits, performing the work and pedagogical theory of the School for potential donors and funding agencies like the Rockefeller Foundation. …”
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Public forms of anti-authoritarian protest in Brazil in 1968. Student leadership and social complicity by José Luis Hernández Huerta

“… The worldwide student rebellion in the so-called ‘long 68’ affected practically every country in Latin America: especially Argentina, Mexico, Uruguay and Brazil. …”
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Levels, trends, and determinants of cause-of-death diversity in a global perspective: 1990–2019 by Júlia Almeida Calazans, Iñaki Permanyer

“…Results CoD diversity has declined across world regions, except for Latin America and the Caribbean, the region of High-income countries and women in Central Europe, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia. …”
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Plastic and Intersemiotic Confluences in Lispector’s Água viva by Fernando Moreira

“…The movement, not only in its literary segment, influenced by European vanguards such as abstractionism (and the denial, too, of the discursive figure in the text), surrealism etc., found new incorporations in Latin America, resulting in genuine productions which were consolidated, breaking away from mimetic Romanticism and establishing the mark of a production that incorporated elements of Brazilianness. …”
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