INTER-AMERICAN NOTES: CONFERENCES

2015 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-150
Author(s):  
Bridget María Chesterton
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Environmental History ◽  
The United States ◽  
Liberal Party ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time ◽  
Suny Stony

Between July 23 and July 25, 2014, the University of Montevideo hosted the Fourth Jornadas Internacionales de Historia del Paraguay, with sponsorship from the Universities of Georgia, Köln, and Rennes 2. Organized by Thomas Whigham and Juan Manuel Casal, the conference included 45 presenters and 70 attendees traveling to the Uruguayan capital from the United States, Germany, Spain, Italy, Paraguay, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, and Paraguay. Students from both the National and Catholic Universities of Asunción also took part with one of their number, Claudio José Fuentes Armadans (Universidad Católica), providing an interesting presentation on the history of the Liberal Party. First-time contributors to the conference included Carlos Gómez Florentín (SUNY Stony Brook), who discussed the environmental history of the hydroelectric complex at Itaipú, and Justin Michael Heath (University of Texas, Austin), who traced the evolution of frontier security in the early Jesuit missions. The Jornadas also benefited from repeat contributors, including Ignacio Telesca (Universidad Nacional de Formosa/CONICET), who analyzed the historical content of Paraguayan textbooks in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and Bridget María Chesterton, who discussed how the “sweet herb” ka’a he’e (stevia) has affected markets and habits of consumption in more recent times.

scholarly journals Book Reviews

1979 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-46
Author(s):  
Joseph M. McCarthy ◽  
Sally Allen ◽  
Michael L. Tate ◽  
Michael B. Husband ◽  
Charles T. Haley ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Roman Empire ◽  
Prince Edward Island ◽  
The United States ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
History Of ◽  
City State ◽  
The University ◽  
Lincoln University

J.H. Plumb, Frederic A. Youngs, Jr., Henry L. Snyder, E. A. Reitan, and David M. Fahey. The English Heritage. St. Louis: Forum Press, 1978. Pp. 419. Paper, $9.95. Review by Don M. Cregier of the University of Prince Edward Island. J. R. Hay. The Development of the British Welfare State, 1880-1975. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1978. Pp. x, 116. Cloth, $18.95; C. J. Bartlett. A History of Postwar Britain, 1945-1974. New York: Longman, Inc., 1977. Pp. v, 360. Cloth, $19.00; paper, $9.95. Review by Fred R. van Hartesveldt of Valley City State College. Donald Kagan, ed. The End of the Roman Empire: Decline or Transformation? Second edition. Lexington, Massachusetts: D.C. Heath and Co., 1978. Pp. xii, 188. Paper, $3.95. Review by Charles M. Flail of Harwood Union High School. Alexander J. DeGrand. The Italian Nationalist Association and .the Rise of Fascism in Italy. Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 1978.- pp. x, 238. Cloth, $12.50; Leon Poliakov. The Aryan Myth: A History of Racist and Nationalist Ideas in Europe. New York: Meridian, 1974. Pp. x, 388. Paper, $4.95; Esmonde M. Robertson. Mussolini as Empire Builder: Europe and Africa, 1932-36. New York: St. Martin's, 1978. Pp. 246. Cloth, $17.95. Review by Helmut J. Schmeller of Fort Hays State University. Peter N. Carroll and David W. Noble. The Free and the Unfree: A New History of the United States. New York: Penguin, 1977. Pp. 448. Paper, $4.95. Review by Larry A. Greene of Seton Hall University. Irwin Unger. These United States: The Questions of Our Past. Boston: Little, Brown, 1978. Pp. xxiv, 993, lxxix. Cloth, $15.95 (single-volume ed.); paper, $9.95 (two-volume ed.); H. L. Ingle and James A. Ward. American History: A Brief View. Boston: Little, Brown, 1978. Pp. xii, 500, ix. Paper, $9.95 (single-volume ed.); $5.95/volume (two-volume ed.). Review by Richard A. Diem of The University of Texas at San Antonio. Maxine Seller. To Seek America: A History of Ethnic Life in America. Englewood, New Jersey: Jerome S. Ozer, 1977. Pp. 328. Paper, $6.95. Review Larry Madaras of Howard Community College (Maryland). Willie Lee Rose, ed. A Documentary History of Slavery in North America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977. Pp. xvi, 537. Cloth, $19.95; paper, $7.00. Review by Charles T. Haley of Colby College. Alice Marriott and Carol Rachlin. Plains Indian Mythology. New York: Mentor, 1975. Pp. xi, 180. Paper, $1.75. Review by Michael B. Husband of Morningside College. J. Frank Dobie. Apache Gold and Yaqui Silver. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico (c. 1967), 1976. Pp. xiii, 366. Paper, $4.95; James B. Gillett. Six Years with the Texas Rangers, 1875-1881. Lincoln: University of Nebraska (c. 1925), 1976. Pp. xxxvi, 259. Paper, $3.95; Robert Edgar Riegel. The Story of the Western Railroads: From 1852 Through the Reign of the Giants. Lincoln: University of Nebraska (c. 1926), 1964.Pp. xv, 345. Paper, $3.95. Review by Michael L. Tate of the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Emma Goldman. Living My Life. Edited by Richard and Anna Maria Drinnon. New York: The New American Library, 1977. Pp. 754. Paper, $6.95. Review by Sally Allen of Hampshire College. John Baskin. New Burlington: The Life and Death of an American Village. New York: Plume, 1977 . Pp. xii, 259. Paper, $2.95; Diana Klebanow, Franklin L. Jonas, and Ira M. Leonard. Urban Legacy: The Story of America's Cities. New York: Mentor, 1977. Pp. xix, 421. Paper, $2.95. Review Joseph M. McCarthy of Suffolk University.

The Invisible Hand of Diplomacy

2021 ◽  
Vol 90 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-376
Author(s):  
Elizabeth O’Brien Ingleson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Invisible Hand ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Political Transformations ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
First Time ◽  
Simple Narrative ◽  
The U.S

In December 1977, a tiny group of U.S. glove makers—most of whom were African American and Latina women—launched a petition before the U.S. International Trade Commission calling for protection from rising imports. Their target was China. Represented by the Work Glove Manufacturers Association, their petition called for quotas on a particular kind of glove entering the United States from China: cotton work gloves. This was a watershed moment. For the first time since the Communist Party came to power in 1949, U.S. workers singled out Chinese goods in pursuit of import relief. Because they were such a small group taking on a country as large as China, their supporters championed the cause as one of David versus Goliath. Yet the case has been forgotten, partly because the glove workers lost. Here I uncover their story, bringing the history of 1970s deindustrialization in the United States into conversation with U.S.-China rapprochement, one of the most significant political transformations of the Cold War. The case, and indeed the loss itself, reveals the tensions between the interests of U.S. workers, corporations, and diplomats. Yet the case does not provide a simple narrative of U.S. workers’ interests being suppressed by diplomats and policymakers nurturing globalized trade ties. Instead, it also underscored the conflicting interests within the U.S. labor movement at a time when manufacturing companies were moving their production jobs to East Asia.

American and International Whaling, c. 1770–1820

2019 ◽  
pp. 25-48
Author(s):  
James R. Fichter
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Environmental History ◽  
Deep Sea ◽  
The United States ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Full Understanding ◽  
The North ◽  
History Of ◽  
The North Atlantic ◽  
National Boundaries

This chapter outlines an international environmental history of whaling in the South Seas (the Southern Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans). Pelagic (ie., deep-sea) whaling was not discretely national. “American” whaling, as traditionally understood, existed as part of a broader ecological and economic phenomenon which included whalers from other nations. Application of “American,” “British” and other national labels to an ocean process that by its nature crossed national boundaries has occluded a full understanding of whaling’s international nature, a fullness which begins with whaling community diaspora spread across the North Atlantic from the United States to Britain and France, and which extends to the varied locations where whalers hunted and the yet other locations to which they returned with their catch. Ocean archives—the Saint Helena Archive, the Cape Town Archive Repository, and the Brazilian Arquivo Nacional—and a reinterpretation of published primary sources and national whaling historiographies reveal the fundamentally international nature of “American” pelagic whaling, suggesting that an undue focus on US whaling data by whaling historians has likely underestimated the extent of turn-of-the-nineteenth-century pelagic whaling.

Libraries in Africa: Pioneers, Policies, Problems. By ANTHONY OLDEN. Lanham, MD., and London: Scarecrow Press, 1996 (UK agent: Shelwing Ltd., Folkestone). Pp. xx + 170. £35.65 (ISBN 0-8108-3093-0).

1997 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-177
Author(s):  
A. D. ROBERTS
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
Carnegie Corporation ◽  
Library Research ◽  
History Of ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Per Se ◽  
English Speaking World ◽  
The University

This expensive little book, originally a thesis for the University of Illinois, is an artless but sometimes perceptive account of certain library endeavours in British East and West Africa, based on archival and library research in Britain and the United States. It is not a history of libraries per se so much as a study of instances of external aid to the development of libraries beyond the sphere of teaching institutions. In the 1930s, one such source – as in so much of the English-speaking world – was the Carnegie Corporation. Grants to Kenya underpinned a system of circulating libraries, the depot for which was housed in the McMillan Memorial Library, Nairobi; membership was confined to whites until 1958. In Lagos, Alan Burns, as chief secretary, secured a grant to start an unsegregated but fee-charging library: in 1934 just 43 of its 481 members were African. The grant ended in 1935, but the library was still going forty years later.

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