Allelujah!
Posts by Harry Churchill
Excited to see my first research article available open access on FirstView with the Journal of Latin American Studies!
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Came across Louise Walker’s fascinating work on the Mexican middle classes post-‘68 while reading for exams. Delighted to see she has a new book about debtor-creditor conflict and economic transformation over the last two centuries. Excited to get into this. Review pending!
I sat down with @csschmitt.bsky.social on Tuesday to chat about her new book. Thanks for the fantastic discussion, Casey!
PROGRAM 2026 LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY IN NEW PERSPECTIVES ON GLOBAL CAPITALISM: ACTORS, CONCEPTS, AND PROBLEMS OF SCALE 10.04.2026 08.05.2026 05.06.2026 04.09.2026 02.10.2026 06.11.2026 04.12.2026 Sven Beckert (Harvard University): A Conversation with Sven Beckert: Capitalism in Latin American History Roy Hora (Universidad de San Andrés - Buenos Aires): Capitalism and Society in Argentina in the 19th and 20th Centuries Rossana Barragán (CIDES - UMSA - La Paz): The Empire of Work: History of the Social Production of Silver from Potosí for the World Pablo Pryluka (CUNY - New York): Markets, Consumers, and the Making of Developmental Capitalism in Postwar Latin America Constanza Castro (Universidad de los Andes - Bogotá): "En este puerto está el mundo". A Microhistory of Global Tobacco: Honda, Columbia, 1846 — 1880 Melissa Teixeira (University of Pennsylvania): "Tem que dar certo": Inflation and the Remaking of Brazilian Democracy John Tutino (Georgetown University): The Revolution that Remade Global
With 11 other colleagues, we are launching a new online seminar series about Latin America in global history on Zoom. Here's the program for 2026. First meeting with @svenbeckert.bsky.social on Apr 10 at 4pm CET. All welcome. Link in program below, website to follow soon.