David M K Sheinin
Biographic Data
| ID | 526416 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David M K Sheinin |
| GIVEN NAMES | David M K |
| FAMILY NAME | Sheinin |
| SIGNATURE | SHEININ D M K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Trent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6635-0711 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Selling the Family Silver or Strategic Pragmatism? The Shocking Argentine Entry into the US Sphere of Influence, the Secret Domingo Cavallo Recordings, and the Nuance of Neoliberal Foreign Policy unde…
Under the Peronist president Carlos Menem (1989–1999), Argentina experienced one of the most dramatic and profound policy shifts in twentieth-century Latin America. In the period from 1990 to 1991, the newly-elected administration undertook a one-hundred-and-eighty-degree turn in foreign policy by advancing new positions in line with those of the United States. This marked a surprising and unprecedented Argentine entry into a US sphere of influen…
The Holocaust and Latin America
Structuring Jewish Buenos Aires at the end of the long nineteenth century
A common Jewish Argentine creation story begins in 1889, with 824 Russian Jews disembarking in Buenos Aires and ushering in three decades of massive Jewish migration to that city. In six key themes, this article expands the parameters of that story chronologically, spatially, culturally, and politically. It focuses on the Jewish gaucho (skilled horseman) as an iconic representation of the intersections of Jewish and non-Jewish Buenos Aires; the m…
The Slow Conquest of the Argentine Frontier
This article assesses the shifting character of the Argentine frontier. Over time, Argentines have altered their understanding of the concept of a frontier. Two constants over the past century and a half, however, have been the popular notion of the conquest of Indigenous peoples as balefully incomplete, and the associated idea of a racially compromised frontier. These have contrasted sharply with settler myths of the destruction of First Peoples…
The New History of Sport in Latin America. Introduction
Thirty-five years ago, at a time when few were undertaking academic studies of sport and society in Latin America, the historian Joseph L. Arbena argued that sport could provide a window into the regional experience in the Americas. He also argued that the subject of sport had only received “limited systematic analysis.” To a large extent, that is no longer the case. Ruminating on that change, Gregg Bocketti recently affirmed that “now it is a ra…
Boxing Cultures and Perceptions of Violence in Venezuela
This article stresses the ways in which Venezuelans came to understand and explain the connections between boxing and violence from the 1960s through the early 1980s. As in other Latin American countries, Venezuelans were consumed during the Cold War by what they saw as a dramatic rise in societal violence often associated with the perceived ills of rapid urbanization. However, the public narrative about violence in boxing had little bearing on t…
Making Immigrants in Modern Argentina
This is the best comprehensive review of immigration-related legislation and executive orders in Argentina for the post-1983 period. It reflects extensive research in legislative records, government decrees, and media sources. An appendix helpfully lists all legislation analyzed. A second appendix addresses the author's methodology for examining print media. A third includes a questionnaire issued in 2003–4 to members of Congress and a number of …
Raanan Rein, Mariano Gruschetsky & Rodrigo Daskal (Comps.)
This masterful collection of fifteen chapters on the everyday lives of Argentine football clubs during that country's most recent dictatorship ) is many things.It's a sequel to Raanan Rein's edited volume La cancha peronista (2015), which addressed football clubs and society during Juan D. Perón's first two presidencies.(This sequel is better than the terrific original).Rein contributes an outstanding chapter on the 1978 World Cup of Soccer in wh…
Ambassadors of the Working Class
Ambassadors of the Working Class is cast “as a transnational history of the hopes and fears stirred by populist politics in the Americas and the competition between Peronist and U.S. labor diplomats for the conquest of the region's labor movement” (p. 15). It is more an engaging history of an idealistic peronista challenge to U.S. labor influences in the hemisphere. U.S. versus Argentine labor activisms was no competition; the United States was a…
Impunity, Human Rights, and Democracy
The La Tablada Attack and the Erosion of Civil Rights in Argentina
On January 23, 1989, 42 operatives of a revolutionary group, the Movimiento Todos por la Patria (MTP), attacked the General Belgrano Mechanized Infantry Regiment No. 3 at La Tablada in the province of Buenos Aires. This article analyzes the accusations of human rights violations committed by the armed forces and the police on the attackers in the aftermath of the assault; the skeptical Argentine government’s response to those allegations before t…
Landscapes of memory and impunity
Landscapes of memory and impunity: the aftermath of the AMIA bombing in Jewish Argentina." Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 17(1), pp. 131–132
The 1971 Pan-American Games and the Search for Colombian Modernities
The VI Pan-American Games in Cali, Colombia were planned as a harbinger of a modern Colombia. The games featured many impressive athletic performances but failed to create the lasting impact organizers had imagined. Timing was bad. Colombia had seen a decade of economic growth after a generation of civil war. However, much of that progress was compromised beginning in the mid-1970s with the escalation of new internal wars fuelled in part by the q…
Introduction
In Argentina, the March 1976 coup d’état is a conceptual fulcrum. Historianshave neatly divided Argentina’s political, social, and cultural pasts as post- andpre-coup. There is a more compelling derivative, though, of that linear break. Whatthe proceso means—how it is understood together with its consequences—keepsshifting, like the disturbing physical breaks in the urban geography of a futuristicBuenos Aires portrayed in novelist Ricardo Piglia’…
Peripheral Anti-Imperialism
After 2000, a funny thing happened to the political language of the new leftin South America. While leaders in many countries and of many political stripesregularly evoke the past, Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez made a science ofhistoricizing current problems by reviving the distant and forgotten as relevantand poignant. The point of the exercise was to resurrect obscured narrative ashistorical revision with sharp, current political meaning. In…
David Aliano. Mussolini's National Project in Argentina
This is a thoughtful analysis of fascist Italy's project to promote the political and ideological construction of transnational Italian nationhood among Italian immigrants in Argentina. The author draws effectively on government archival material in Italy and Argentina, as well as on newspaper and other sources, in exploring “the role played by Argentine national discourses in shaping the debate over Italian national identity that took place on A…
Karen Faulk
KAREN FAULK: In the Wake of Neoliberalism: Citizenship and Human Rights in Argentina. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013; EMILIO A. CRENZEL: The Memory of the Argentina Disappearances: The Political History of Nunca Más. London: Routledge press, 2011.Together, these excellent books tell the story of the most profound transformation in urban, middle class Argentine political cultures since the fall of the last military dictatorship in 1…
The Ailing City
The Invention of the Jewish Gaucho. Villa Clara and the Construction of Argentine Identity
Salt in the Sand
"Salt in the Sand: Memory, Violence, and the Nation-State in Chile, 1890 to the Present, by Lessie Jo Frazier.." Canadian Journal of History, 44(2), pp. 353–354
Paraguay and the United States
One evening in early 1988, Paraguayan dictator Alfredo Stroessner sent his National Police to throw tear gas at a private party where United States ambassador Clyde Taylor was dining, an incident that reflected deteriorating bilateral relations as Washington pressed for an end to military rule in Paraguay. This is one of several jarring episodes that punctuate an otherwise staid, uneventful, and distant but good relationship between the United St…
Florencia E. Mallon - Courage Tastes of Blood
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Wild Bulls, Discarded Foreigners, and Brash Champions
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Nuclear Development and the Shaping of an Independent Argentine Foreign Policy, 1950-1990
Throughout the Cold War, there was one remarkable exception to the decline of scientific activity in Argentina, namely the nuclear sector. For decades, the Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica (CNEA) and the two dozen private and semi-private companies that dominated the Argentine nuclear sector continued to be strong, both from the scientific and administrative point of view. According to Etel Solingen, this was a "paradigmatic example of a mave…
John D. French — Drowning in Laws
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Victims of Development
Beyond the Ideal
Journal Article Beyond the Ideal: Pan Americanism in Inter-American Affairs Get access Sheinin DavidBeyond the Ideal: Pan Americanism in Inter-American Affairs 2000Westport Praegerx225Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-313-31470-5. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-275-96980-0 Thomas Schoonover Thomas Schoonover University of LouisianaLafayette, Louisiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issu…
Defying Infection
In light of the rapid late nineteenth century expansion of the cattle sector in Argentina, and a surge in export-led growth before World War I, Argentines believed that growing beef exports would continue to stimulate the Argentine economy in the post-war years. But between 1900 and 1930, Foot-and-Mouth disease (F.M.) became endemic in the countryside and in municipal slaughterhouses. The virus diminished the productivity of Argentina's most impo…
Structuring Jewish Buenos Aires at the end of the long nineteenth century
A common Jewish Argentine creation story begins in 1889, with 824 Russian Jews disembarking in Buenos Aires and ushering in three decades of massive Jewish migration to that city. In six key themes, this article expands the parameters of that story chronologically, spatially, culturally, and politically. It focuses on the Jewish gaucho (skilled horseman) as an iconic representation of the intersections of Jewish and non-Jewish Buenos Aires; the m…
Ambassadors of the Working Class
Ambassadors of the Working Class is cast “as a transnational history of the hopes and fears stirred by populist politics in the Americas and the competition between Peronist and U.S. labor diplomats for the conquest of the region's labor movement” (p. 15). It is more an engaging history of an idealistic peronista challenge to U.S. labor influences in the hemisphere. U.S. versus Argentine labor activisms was no competition; the United States was a…
Argentina's Early Priorities in the European War
In mid-1940, Argentina joined other Latin American nations in protesting the German attack on the Low Countries. Yet, concerns over the violation of a neutral country's sovereignty were tempered by conciliatory elements in the Argentine response to the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands. In their denial of a request for asylum on the part of Jewish refugees, Argentine leaders dismissed the brutality of the Nazi incursion. The decision on refugees r…
Narcotrafico y politica II
Argentina's Early Priorities in the European War
In mid-1940, Argentina joined other Latin American nations in protesting the German attack on the Low Countries. Yet, concerns over the violation of a neutral country's sovereignty were tempered by conciliatory elements in the Argentine response to the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands. In their denial of a request for asylum on the part of Jewish refugees, Argentine leaders dismissed the brutality of the Nazi incursion. The decision on refugees r…
Making Democracy Safe for the World
David Sheinin, Making Democracy Safe for the World: The Neo-Liberal Agenda and the New 'Isolationism' in Relations with Latin America, International Journal, Vol. 48, No. 1, United States Foreign Policy: A New Isolationism? (Winter, 1992/1993), pp. 100-123
Assessing Recent Reference Works on Latin America
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Making Democracy Safe for the World
Throughout the 1980s, the makers of United States foreign policy stressed traditional Cold War objectives. The Reagan presidency highlighted support for anti-communist 'freedom fighters,' resistance to 'Marxist expansion/ and the 'liberation' of those living under communist rule. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the agenda changed. Emphasizing such putative triumphs as the victory in the Gulf War and the fall of the Berlin Wall, the foreign…
The Neoliberal Assault and Latin American Countermobilizations
Argentine Workers
Defying Infection
In light of the rapid late nineteenth century expansion of the cattle sector in Argentina, and a surge in export-led growth before World War I, Argentines believed that growing beef exports would continue to stimulate the Argentine economy in the post-war years. But between 1900 and 1930, Foot-and-Mouth disease (F.M.) became endemic in the countryside and in municipal slaughterhouses. The virus diminished the productivity of Argentina's most impo…
Victims of Development
The Army and Politics in Argentina, 1962-1973
"The Army and Politics in Argentina, 1962-1973: From Frondizi’s Fall to the Peronist Restoration, by Robert A. Potash." Canadian Journal of History, 32(1), pp. 140–141
Class, Democracy & Labor in Contemporary Argentina
Close Encounters of Empire
Conflict in the Southern Cone
The Second Century
This book offers a new historical synthesis of U.S.-Latin American relations in the twentieth century. One way that Mark T. Gilderhus accomplishes this is by placing his analysis and conclusions in sharp historiographical focus. At times, this takes the form of tweaking his colleagues: "Aided by the advantage of hindsight," (p.32) Gilderhus writes dryly at one point, historians have assessed the policies that constituted dollar diplomacy as failu…
Beyond the Ideal
Journal Article Beyond the Ideal: Pan Americanism in Inter-American Affairs Get access Sheinin DavidBeyond the Ideal: Pan Americanism in Inter-American Affairs 2000Westport Praegerx225Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-313-31470-5. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-275-96980-0 Thomas Schoonover Thomas Schoonover University of LouisianaLafayette, Louisiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issu…
Revolution in the Street
John D. French — Drowning in Laws
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
John Lindsay-Poland — Emperors in the Jungle
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Nuclear Development and the Shaping of an Independent Argentine Foreign Policy, 1950-1990
Throughout the Cold War, there was one remarkable exception to the decline of scientific activity in Argentina, namely the nuclear sector. For decades, the Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica (CNEA) and the two dozen private and semi-private companies that dominated the Argentine nuclear sector continued to be strong, both from the scientific and administrative point of view. According to Etel Solingen, this was a "paradigmatic example of a mave…
Florencia E. Mallon - Courage Tastes of Blood
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Wild Bulls, Discarded Foreigners, and Brash Champions
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Paraguay and the United States
One evening in early 1988, Paraguayan dictator Alfredo Stroessner sent his National Police to throw tear gas at a private party where United States ambassador Clyde Taylor was dining, an incident that reflected deteriorating bilateral relations as Washington pressed for an end to military rule in Paraguay. This is one of several jarring episodes that punctuate an otherwise staid, uneventful, and distant but good relationship between the United St…
Salt in the Sand
"Salt in the Sand: Memory, Violence, and the Nation-State in Chile, 1890 to the Present, by Lessie Jo Frazier.." Canadian Journal of History, 44(2), pp. 353–354
The Invention of the Jewish Gaucho. Villa Clara and the Construction of Argentine Identity
The Ailing City
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