Raymond B Craib
Biographic Data
| ID | 446312 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Raymond B Craib |
| GIVEN NAMES | Raymond B |
| FAMILY NAME | Craib |
| SIGNATURE | CRAIB R B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3668-7508 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Laying Claim to the Profits of Empire
Lxs anarquistas
This essay reviews the following works:Rebellion in Patagonia. By Osvaldo Bayer. Chico, CA: Edinburgh AK Press, 2016. Pp. 425. $21.95 paperback. ISBN: 1849352216.Anarchism in Latin America. By Angel J. Cappelletti. Baltimore: AK Press, 2017. Pp. 429. $20.95 paperback. ISBN: 9781849352826.Writing Revolution: Hispanic Anarchism in the United States. Edited by Christopher J. Castañeda and Montse Feu. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2019. Pp…
Ránquil: Rural Rebellion, Political Violence, and Historical Memory in Chile
In the austral winter of 1934, a rebellion erupted in southern Chile. Hundreds of rural workers, led by what at the time was Chile's largest agricultural workers' union, the Sindicato Agrícola Lonquimay, took up arms in an effort to expropriate regional landowners and estate managers and to foment a socialist revolution. This was the Ránquil rebellion. It ended with rebels either on the run, in the midst of a snowy winter, or detained and never t…
Rescuing the map from the nation
Tania Rossetto and Laura Lo Presti seek to rescue the national map from nationalism. Or at least from that nationalism characterized by reactionary, tradition-bound, and exclusionary practices and imaginaries. The authors provide readers with an insightful and challenging article on reimagining what national maps are, how they function, and what they could be if recast through the perspective of those often excluded and/or marginalized from the n…
Memories of Earth and Sea: An Ethnographic History of the Islands of Chiloé
In this brief but illuminating history, Anton Daughters examines the continuities and changes experienced by the islanders of Chiloé, an archipelago in southern Chile, over the course of some 500 years. Through seven chapters the author draws from travel narratives, secondary literature, and oral interviews to understand how islanders understand themselves, their past, and perhaps their futures. Early chapters cover the archipelago's history and …
Psychedelic Chile: Youth, Counterculture, and Politics on the Road to Socialism and Dictatorship
Most Scandalous Woman: Magda Portal and the Dream of Revolution in Peru
Peruvian poet and revolutionary Magda Portal (1900–89) has long lived in the shadow of her male compatriots Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre and José Carlos Mariátegui—undeservedly so, as this poignant work by Myrna Ivonne Wallace Fuentes demonstrates. With rich, evocative writing and vivid descriptions of the worlds that Portal inhabited, Wallace Fuentes paints a portrait of a revolutionary in multiple senses of the term—in aesthetic innovations, in…
Anarchist Immigrants in Spain and Argentina - by Baer, James A
The Cry of the Renegade: Politics and Poetry in Interwar Chile
On the morning of September 29, 1920, a young poet died in Santiago's asylum, where he had recently been moved after nearly two months in police custody. Why and how did José Domingo Gómez Rojas end up in a prison, an asylum, and a cemetery? This book is an effort to answer that question. It is not a biography of José Domingo Gómez Rojas, although he figures prominently in its pages. It is, rather, a book about the context within which his arrest…
For a Proper Home: Housing Rights in the Margins of Urban Chile, 1960–2010
In the Shadow of Cortés: Conversations along the Route of Conquest
Kathleen Ann Myers refers to her new book as a “reflective essay” (p. vii). Using the trope of the route of Hernán Cortés, it is a reflection on Mexican history and identity—local, regional, and national—as articulated largely through the voices of more than 100 interviewees residing along the alleged route. The text is divided into four major sections, organized geographically, on Veracruz, the highland interior of Tlaxcala and Puebla, Mexico Ci…
The properties of counterinsurgency: On Joel Wainwright’s Geopiracy
Migration and Labor in the Americas: Praxis, Knowledge, and Nations
This article examines the conceptualization, development, and implementation of two related courses on the lives and labors of migrants in the United States. Both courses focus on the histories and hemispheric experiences of migrant workers, within and between the United States, Latin America, and the Spanish Caribbean. The courses are used as a means to think more broadly about what it means to teach courses on Latin America in the twenty-first-…
The archive in the field: Document, discourse, and space in Mexico's agrarian reform
Relocating cartography
This essay reviews Kapil Raj's recently published Relocating Modern Science. I focus on Raj's chapters relating to mapping and surveying in order to situate them more generally in the field of the history of cartography. Thus, the essay is also intended as a somewhat introductory 'taking stock' of the field of the history of cartography at the moment
Atlas ilustrado de los pueblos de indios: Nueva España, 1800
This weighty volume focuses on locating cartographically the nearly five thousand pueblos de indios — the largely indigenous settlements recognized by the viceroy and granted corporate and juridical status as political entities by Spanish colonial law — that existed in New Spain in 1800. The editor’s efforts — compiling a list of such pueblos, tracking them through archival records and name changes, discerning their absorption by urban centers, a…
Cartographic Mexico: A History of State Fixations and Fugitive Landscapes
Peasants, Politics, and History: Teaching Agrarian History and Historiography
Research Article| January 01 2004 Peasants, Politics, and History: Teaching Agrarian History and Historiography Raymond B. Craib Raymond B. Craib Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2004) 2004 (88): 178–191. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2004-88-178 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Raymond B. Craib; Peasants, Politics, and History: T…
The Devil in Silicon Valley: Northern California, Race, and Mexican-Americans
This sweeping history explores the growing Latino presence in the United States over the past two hundred years. It also debunks common myths about Silicon Valley, one of the world's most influential but least-understood places. Far more than any label of the moment, the devil of racism has long been Silicon Valley's defining force, and Stephen Pitti argues that ethnic Mexicans - rather than computer programmers - should take centre stage in any …
La Gran Línea: Mapping the United States-Mexico Boundary, 1849-1857
For all the recent interest in the border by practitioners of various disciplines, few have stopped to consider the basic processes by which a two-thousand-mile-long “line” separating Mexico from the United States came to be drawn. In this fascinating but frustrating book, Paula Rebert sets herself the task of reconstructing that process in the immediate aftermath of the Mexican-American War. Her narrative follows the surveying and mapping of the…
A Nationalist Metaphysics: State Fixations, National Maps, and the Geo-Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Mexico
In 1847 Mariano Otero, attempting to account for the ease with which “ten or twelve thousand men . . . penetrated from Veracruz to the very capital of the republic,” offered a stinging explanation: Mexico did not constitute, nor could it properly call itself, a nation.1 Locating the absence of nationhood in the persisting legacies of colonial rule, Otero questioned the degree to which Mexico had moved from colony to modern nation. Such an asserti…
Cartography and Power in the Conquest and Creation of New Spain
With the so-called linguistic turn, historians have begun to study the ways in which a multitude of cultural forms are imbricated in the colonial and imperial project. In analyzing the infinite ways in which power is exercised and manifested, historians are turning a critical eye toward a myriad of cultural productions for a better understanding of how culture, politics, and power work in concert. One example is the increasing scrutiny given to g…
The Mapping of the Entradas into the Greater Southwest
When Pánfilo de Narváez decided upon an interior exploration during his ill-fated expedition to Florida in 1528, another member of the crew, Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, expressed serious doubts. They were in a land they knew nothing about, he argued, with no idea as to where exactly they were. The irony is that such conditions constituted the expedition’s raison d’etre: exploration is all about making the unknown known and fixing one’s position. …
Procesos rurales e historia regional (sierra y costa totonacas de Veracruz)
Insular Visions: Cartographic Imagery and the Spanish‐American War
(1998). Insular Visions: Cartographic Imagery and the Spanish‐American War. The Historian: Vol. 61, No. 1, pp. 101-118
The Devil in Silicon Valley: Northern California, Race, and Mexican-Americans
This sweeping history explores the growing Latino presence in the United States over the past two hundred years. It also debunks common myths about Silicon Valley, one of the world's most influential but least-understood places. Far more than any label of the moment, the devil of racism has long been Silicon Valley's defining force, and Stephen Pitti argues that ethnic Mexicans - rather than computer programmers - should take centre stage in any …
A Nationalist Metaphysics: State Fixations, National Maps, and the Geo-Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Mexico
In 1847 Mariano Otero, attempting to account for the ease with which “ten or twelve thousand men . . . penetrated from Veracruz to the very capital of the republic,” offered a stinging explanation: Mexico did not constitute, nor could it properly call itself, a nation.1 Locating the absence of nationhood in the persisting legacies of colonial rule, Otero questioned the degree to which Mexico had moved from colony to modern nation. Such an asserti…
The archive in the field: Document, discourse, and space in Mexico's agrarian reform
The Mapping of New Spain: Indigenous Cartography and the Maps of the Relaciones Geograficas
Relocating cartography
This essay reviews Kapil Raj's recently published Relocating Modern Science. I focus on Raj's chapters relating to mapping and surveying in order to situate them more generally in the field of the history of cartography. Thus, the essay is also intended as a somewhat introductory 'taking stock' of the field of the history of cartography at the moment
Peasants, Politics, and History: Teaching Agrarian History and Historiography
Research Article| January 01 2004 Peasants, Politics, and History: Teaching Agrarian History and Historiography Raymond B. Craib Raymond B. Craib Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2004) 2004 (88): 178–191. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2004-88-178 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Raymond B. Craib; Peasants, Politics, and History: T…
The Mapping of New Spain: Indigenous Cartography and the Maps of the Relaciones Geograficas
Insular Visions: Cartographic Imagery and the Spanish‐American War
(1998). Insular Visions: Cartographic Imagery and the Spanish‐American War. The Historian: Vol. 61, No. 1, pp. 101-118
Procesos rurales e historia regional (sierra y costa totonacas de Veracruz)
Cartography and Power in the Conquest and Creation of New Spain
With the so-called linguistic turn, historians have begun to study the ways in which a multitude of cultural forms are imbricated in the colonial and imperial project. In analyzing the infinite ways in which power is exercised and manifested, historians are turning a critical eye toward a myriad of cultural productions for a better understanding of how culture, politics, and power work in concert. One example is the increasing scrutiny given to g…
The Mapping of the Entradas into the Greater Southwest
When Pánfilo de Narváez decided upon an interior exploration during his ill-fated expedition to Florida in 1528, another member of the crew, Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, expressed serious doubts. They were in a land they knew nothing about, he argued, with no idea as to where exactly they were. The irony is that such conditions constituted the expedition’s raison d’etre: exploration is all about making the unknown known and fixing one’s position. …
A Nationalist Metaphysics: State Fixations, National Maps, and the Geo-Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Mexico
In 1847 Mariano Otero, attempting to account for the ease with which “ten or twelve thousand men . . . penetrated from Veracruz to the very capital of the republic,” offered a stinging explanation: Mexico did not constitute, nor could it properly call itself, a nation.1 Locating the absence of nationhood in the persisting legacies of colonial rule, Otero questioned the degree to which Mexico had moved from colony to modern nation. Such an asserti…
The Devil in Silicon Valley: Northern California, Race, and Mexican-Americans
This sweeping history explores the growing Latino presence in the United States over the past two hundred years. It also debunks common myths about Silicon Valley, one of the world's most influential but least-understood places. Far more than any label of the moment, the devil of racism has long been Silicon Valley's defining force, and Stephen Pitti argues that ethnic Mexicans - rather than computer programmers - should take centre stage in any …
La Gran Línea: Mapping the United States-Mexico Boundary, 1849-1857
For all the recent interest in the border by practitioners of various disciplines, few have stopped to consider the basic processes by which a two-thousand-mile-long “line” separating Mexico from the United States came to be drawn. In this fascinating but frustrating book, Paula Rebert sets herself the task of reconstructing that process in the immediate aftermath of the Mexican-American War. Her narrative follows the surveying and mapping of the…
Cartographic Mexico: A History of State Fixations and Fugitive Landscapes
Peasants, Politics, and History: Teaching Agrarian History and Historiography
Research Article| January 01 2004 Peasants, Politics, and History: Teaching Agrarian History and Historiography Raymond B. Craib Raymond B. Craib Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2004) 2004 (88): 178–191. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2004-88-178 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Raymond B. Craib; Peasants, Politics, and History: T…
Atlas ilustrado de los pueblos de indios: Nueva España, 1800
This weighty volume focuses on locating cartographically the nearly five thousand pueblos de indios — the largely indigenous settlements recognized by the viceroy and granted corporate and juridical status as political entities by Spanish colonial law — that existed in New Spain in 1800. The editor’s efforts — compiling a list of such pueblos, tracking them through archival records and name changes, discerning their absorption by urban centers, a…
Relocating cartography
This essay reviews Kapil Raj's recently published Relocating Modern Science. I focus on Raj's chapters relating to mapping and surveying in order to situate them more generally in the field of the history of cartography. Thus, the essay is also intended as a somewhat introductory 'taking stock' of the field of the history of cartography at the moment
The archive in the field: Document, discourse, and space in Mexico's agrarian reform
Migration and Labor in the Americas: Praxis, Knowledge, and Nations
This article examines the conceptualization, development, and implementation of two related courses on the lives and labors of migrants in the United States. Both courses focus on the histories and hemispheric experiences of migrant workers, within and between the United States, Latin America, and the Spanish Caribbean. The courses are used as a means to think more broadly about what it means to teach courses on Latin America in the twenty-first-…
The properties of counterinsurgency: On Joel Wainwright’s Geopiracy
The Cry of the Renegade: Politics and Poetry in Interwar Chile
On the morning of September 29, 1920, a young poet died in Santiago's asylum, where he had recently been moved after nearly two months in police custody. Why and how did José Domingo Gómez Rojas end up in a prison, an asylum, and a cemetery? This book is an effort to answer that question. It is not a biography of José Domingo Gómez Rojas, although he figures prominently in its pages. It is, rather, a book about the context within which his arrest…
For a Proper Home: Housing Rights in the Margins of Urban Chile, 1960–2010
In the Shadow of Cortés: Conversations along the Route of Conquest
Kathleen Ann Myers refers to her new book as a “reflective essay” (p. vii). Using the trope of the route of Hernán Cortés, it is a reflection on Mexican history and identity—local, regional, and national—as articulated largely through the voices of more than 100 interviewees residing along the alleged route. The text is divided into four major sections, organized geographically, on Veracruz, the highland interior of Tlaxcala and Puebla, Mexico Ci…
Anarchist Immigrants in Spain and Argentina - by Baer, James A
Psychedelic Chile: Youth, Counterculture, and Politics on the Road to Socialism and Dictatorship
Most Scandalous Woman: Magda Portal and the Dream of Revolution in Peru
Peruvian poet and revolutionary Magda Portal (1900–89) has long lived in the shadow of her male compatriots Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre and José Carlos Mariátegui—undeservedly so, as this poignant work by Myrna Ivonne Wallace Fuentes demonstrates. With rich, evocative writing and vivid descriptions of the worlds that Portal inhabited, Wallace Fuentes paints a portrait of a revolutionary in multiple senses of the term—in aesthetic innovations, in…
Rescuing the map from the nation
Tania Rossetto and Laura Lo Presti seek to rescue the national map from nationalism. Or at least from that nationalism characterized by reactionary, tradition-bound, and exclusionary practices and imaginaries. The authors provide readers with an insightful and challenging article on reimagining what national maps are, how they function, and what they could be if recast through the perspective of those often excluded and/or marginalized from the n…
Memories of Earth and Sea: An Ethnographic History of the Islands of Chiloé
In this brief but illuminating history, Anton Daughters examines the continuities and changes experienced by the islanders of Chiloé, an archipelago in southern Chile, over the course of some 500 years. Through seven chapters the author draws from travel narratives, secondary literature, and oral interviews to understand how islanders understand themselves, their past, and perhaps their futures. Early chapters cover the archipelago's history and …
Lxs anarquistas
This essay reviews the following works:Rebellion in Patagonia. By Osvaldo Bayer. Chico, CA: Edinburgh AK Press, 2016. Pp. 425. $21.95 paperback. ISBN: 1849352216.Anarchism in Latin America. By Angel J. Cappelletti. Baltimore: AK Press, 2017. Pp. 429. $20.95 paperback. ISBN: 9781849352826.Writing Revolution: Hispanic Anarchism in the United States. Edited by Christopher J. Castañeda and Montse Feu. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2019. Pp…
Ránquil: Rural Rebellion, Political Violence, and Historical Memory in Chile
In the austral winter of 1934, a rebellion erupted in southern Chile. Hundreds of rural workers, led by what at the time was Chile's largest agricultural workers' union, the Sindicato Agrícola Lonquimay, took up arms in an effort to expropriate regional landowners and estate managers and to foment a socialist revolution. This was the Ránquil rebellion. It ended with rebels either on the run, in the midst of a snowy winter, or detained and never t…
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