Institute of Historical Research Joaquim Nabuco, Abolitionism and the End of Slavery in Brazil Leslie Bethell (King's College London) Latin American History seminar series

Institute of Historical Research La Dictablanda: Soft Authoritarianism in Mexico, 1940-1968 Ben Smith (Warwick) Latin American History seminar series

Institute of Historical Research Conceiving Freedom: Women and the Abolition of Slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro Camillia Cowling (Edinburgh) Latin American History seminar series

Institute of Historical Research Social Dissolution: A History of Article 145 of the Mexican Penal Code, 1941-1970 Halbert Jones (Oxford) Latin American History seminar series

Institute of Historical Research Rent versus Production: Political Economy and Economic Culture in Venezuela, 1830-2010 Sarah Washbrook (Manchester) Latin American History seminar series

Institute of Historical Research Embodying Race in Colonial Spanish America Rebecca Earle (Warwick) Latin American History seminar series

Institute of Historical Research From Marx to Metrics in Latin America's Economic History John Coatsworth (Columbia) Latin American History seminar series

Institute of Historical Research The Bolivian Revolution at 60: Politics and Historiography James Dunkerley (Queen Mary, University of London) Latin American History seminar series

Institute of Historical Research The Political Economy of Royal Emotions: Ruling the Spanish Empire in the Seventeenth Century Alejandro Caneque (University of Maryland, USA) Latin American History seminar series

Institute of Historical Research Was the Mexican Revolution a Success? Alan Knight (Oxford) Mexico in 1910 was a country beginning the path toward a long and bitter uprising that before its end would turn into a full-scale civil war and eventually into revolution. The Mexican Revolution of 1910-1920 was the greatest upheaval Mexico faced in the 20th century. The conflict began with an uprising by Francisco I. Madero against Mexico’s dictator leader Benito Juárez. Madero succeeded Juárez...

Institute of Historical Research Taxation and Society in Twentieth Century Argentina José Antonio Sánchez Román (Universidad Complutense, Spain) Latin American History seminar series

Institute of Historical Research Of 'Savages' and Sailors: British Consular Contacts with the Mapuche of Chile during the 1820s and 1830s Manuel Llorca (Universidad de Chile) Latin American History seminar series

Institute of Historical Research Rothschild, Quicksilver and Mining: A Global Monopoly from a Bolivian Perspective Tristan Platt (St Andrews) Latin American History seminar series

Institute of Historical Research Great wealth in Argentina, 1810-1930 Roya Hora (Universidad Nacional de Quilmes) Very little research has been done on the very wealthy of Argentina between the late colonial period and the beginning of the Second World War. Many assumptions have been floated around but none based on much substance. Roy Hora’s investigation is therefore useful in deconstructing the truth concerning Argentina’s wealthy ‘classes’. In the earlier period the merchant...

Institute of Historical Research Citizens in Arms: The Army, the Militias and he National Guards and the Creation of the Peruvian State (1821-1861) Natalia Sobrevilla (Kent) To what degree was there a military institution in nineteenth century Peru? How did militias eventually form an army? What role did armed citizens play in this process? These are all questions asked by Natalia Sobrevilla concerning the origins of the military in Peru. Sobrevilla wants to look beyond the traditional...

Institute of Historical Research Weetman Pearson and Mexican National Development 1889-1919 Paul Garner (Leeds) Latin American History seminar series

Institute of Historical Research Mexican Nationalism: History and Theory David Brading (Cambridge) In 1821 Mexico gained independence from Spain and formed a Republic. By the 1880s a ‘reformation’ had begun to occur in the Mexican church, trade had moved primarily with Europe to Mexico’s North American neighbours, and modernisation went hand-in-hand with a government based around dictatorship and a cast based society. Amongst, all of these changes in Mexican society were the growth of a...