Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. I The Politics of Writing Latin American History
5. Reclaiming ‘‘the Political’’ at the Turn of the Millennium 1
6. New Publics, New Politics, New Histories: From Economic Reductionism to Cultural Reductionism—in Search of Dialectics 17
7. Between Tragedy and Promise: The Politics of Writing Latin American History in the Late Twentieth Century 32
8. II The Contestation of Historical Narratives and Memory
9. The Decline of the Progressive Planter and the Rise of Subaltern Agency: Shifting Narratives of Slave Emancipation in Brazil 81
10. A Past to Do Justice to the Present: Collective Memory, Historical Representation, and Rule in Bahia’s Cacao Area 102
11. Revolutionary Nationalism and Local Memories in El Salvador 138
12. III Articulating the Political: The Intersection of Class, Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Generation
13. The Flight from the Fields Reconsidered: Gender Ideologies and Women’s Labor After Slavery in Jamaica 175
14. A More Onerous Citizenship: Illness, Race, and Nation in Republican Guatemala 205
15. Nationalism, Race, and the Politics of Imperialism: Workers and North American Capital in the Chilean Copper Industry 231
16. Good Wives, Bad Girls, and Unfaithful Men: Sexual Negotiation and Labor Struggle in Chile’s Agrarian Reform, 1964–73 268
17. IV Historians and the Making of History
18. Bearing Witness in Hard Times: Ethnography and Testimonio in a Postrevolutionary Age 311
19. Afterword: A Final Reflection on the Political 355
20. Contributors 365
21. Index 367