Mark Rice
Biographic Data
| ID | 533055 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Rice |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Rice |
| SIGNATURE | RICE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Baruch College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1710-4650 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Alaska Joins the Whitewater Union
At first glance, Alaska seems to be a prime location for whitewater, and many of its rivers are run on both guided and unguided trips. The state’s isolation, difficult internal travel, and focus on resources over recreation delayed the development of a recreational river-running outlook and economy of the type that grew in the Intermountain West after World War II. Traces of a recreational boating outlook did appear early in these years, however,…
El terremoto del Cusco
Let This Be the Death Knell for American Exceptionalism
This essay argues that with the 2024 reelection of Donald Trump as president of the United States, the concept of “American exceptionalism” should be put to rest once and for all. The essay traces some of the history of the idea of American exceptionalism, paying particular attention to how it has been deployed in American political rhetoric over the past twenty years or so. During Trump’s first presidential campaign, some observers noted that Tr…
The Lima Phone Operators’ Strike of 1931
In August 1931, the telephone operators of Lima's US-owned phone company went on strike. The telefonistas, as these women operators were known, built alliances with feminist groups, labor organizations, and competing political movements to present themselves as decent young women abused by a foreign company. With critical national elections taking place in less than two months, defending the cause of the telefonistas became a question of defendin…
Itinerant Ideas
Itinerant Ideas convincingly argues that indigenistas in Chile and Peru did not reflect the stark national rivalry and official state rhetoric between their two countries in the first half of the twentieth century. In many ways, Joanna Crow's work is a great companion to Joshua Savala's Beyond Patriotic Phobias: Connections, Cooperation, and Solidarity in the Peruvian-Chilean Pacific World (2022), which also focuses on individual connections to s…
The Road to the Land of the Mother of God
The title of this book suggests that it is a history of the recently completed Interoceanic Highway, which connects Peru and Brazil in the Amazonian region of Madre de Dios. The authors introduce their study as a “focus on routes and corridors . . . compared to histories of territories” (p. 7). By placing roads as the central object of study, the authors provide the reader with a new sense of understanding regional history through its relationshi…
La condena de la libertad
It's hard to imagine a timelier book than La condena de la libertad. The fact that many Latin Americanists were surprised when social unrest exploded in Peru beginning in late 2022 illustrated that a new comprehensive understanding of the origins of modern Peru was needed. The fact that many have struggled to understand the current Peruvian political crisis makes the need to read this book urgent.Edited by Paulo Drinot and Alberto Vergara, La con…
Improvised Cities
The spectacular growth of Lima's informal barriadas and pueblos jóvenes has long occupied a prominent place in the scholarly and popular imagination of Peru's twentieth-century history. For many, the image of Lima as a city of unconstrained and uncontrolled informal settlements was a singular symbol of what José Matos Mar dubbed the desborde popular that had overwhelmed Peru by the 1980s. Helen Gyger's new book, Improvised Cities, acknowledges th…
Portraits in the Andes
As scholars continue to question how (or if) the subaltern can speak, Jorge Coronado argues that to hear them we should focus on the medium in which each source is worth a thousand words: photography. Coronado's Portraits in the Andes asserts that photography, and photographic portraits in particular, offers an important source for understanding the agency of everyday people in the Andes to self-fashion their identity and relationship to modernit…
M ariátegui, J osé C arlos (1894–1930)
José Carlos Mariátegui was a Peruvian Marxist intellectual and political leader born in 1894. In 1928, Mariátegui formed the Socialist Party of Peru, which he led until his death in 1930. Despite his relatively short career, Mariátegui wrote extensively on themes of Marxism, nationalism, and Andean indigenous culture and politics. Mariátegui argued in favor of adapting Marxist theories to Latin American social and political realities, which were …
Making Machu Picchu
This book examines the transformation of Machu Picchu from an obscure archaeological site into a global tourist destination and national symbol of Peru. This book illustrates how, from the very start, tourism played a central role in the modern rise of Machu Picchu. The leaders of Cusco, where Machu Picchu is located, employed tourism to argue for the importance of their region at a time when Peru’s national leaders believed that the Andean inter…
A social capital approach to the development of sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystems
US Photography in the Philippines Before 1898
Between 1890 and 1893, two young Americans, Frank Swift Bourns and Dean Conant Worcester, travelled through the central and southern Philippines on a zoological expedition. In addition to collecting animal specimens, the two men took more than one hundred and fifty photographs. These photographs have not been given much attention by historians but they are an important set of images that help expand the understanding of photography in the Philipp…
Good Neighbors and Lost Cities
This article examines how the policies and institutions of the Good Neighbor era in the 1930s and 1940s promoted the Inca archaeological site of Machu Picchu as a tourist destination and a national symbol of Peru. The article investigates the transnational effort that linked US goals to foment hemispheric solidarity with activities of the Peruvian state, as well as local aims to promote the Cuzco region, the former heart of the Inca empire where …
Excerpt from Dean Worcester’s Fantasy Islands
Excerpt from Dean Worcester’s Fantasy Islands: Photography, Film, and the Colonial Philippines (University of Michigan Press, 2014)
Evaluating Innovation Projects
Established enterprises have highly developed and broadly implemented practices for evaluation of projects that support ongoing operations. In contrast, managerial practices for evaluation of innovation projects that embody high uncertainty are often limited and less mature. This article illuminates and discusses the difference in evaluation processes/systems for two different categories of innovation projects: those that support or extend ongoin…
Dean Worcester's Fantasy Islands
Dean Worcester's Fantasy Islands brings to life one of the most significant (but under examined) figures in the history of U.S. colonialism in the Philippines. Upon the outbreak of the Spanish-American War, Worcester, a scientist who had traveled twice to the Philippines on zoological expeditions, established himself as one of America's leading experts on the Philippines. Over a fourteen-year career as a member of the U.S. colonial regime, Worces…
The politics of education reforms
Transnational Business and US Diplomacy in Late Nineteenth-Century South America
The final decades of the nineteenth century were marked by diplomatic confrontations between Chile and the United States. In 1891 the killing of US Navy sailors in a riot in Valparaíso threatened to provoke armed conflict, an event known as the Baltimore Crisis. This article investigates how William Russell Grace, the head of a merchant firm based in New York, played a central role in negotiating between Chile and the United States. By placing hi…
Colonial Photography Across Empires and Islands
When the US acquired its colonies of Puerto Rico and the Philippines in the aftermath of the 1898 war with Spain, those colonies had to be made known to American citizens. Lanny Thompson has described what he calls the “principle narratives” of the different colonies, and the ways that those narratives helped shape political debates about those colonies. Thompson notes that photography played an instrumental role in developing and representing th…
In Sight of America
His Name Was Don Francisco Muro
Visual culture played a significant role in the debates surrounding American colonialism in the Philippines in the early twentieth century. One of the most important photographers working the Philippines at that time was Dean Conant Worcester, who also served as a colonial administrator. Worcester's three-part sequence of photographs supposedly showing an Igorot man becoming civilized through his contact with Americans is one of the more iconic s…
His Name Was Don Francisco Muro
Visual culture played a significant role in the debates surrounding American colonialism in the Philippines in the early twentieth century. One of the most important photographers working the Philippines at that time was Dean Conant Worcester, who also served as a colonial administrator. Worcester's three-part sequence of photographs supposedly showing an Igorot man becoming civilized through his contact with Americans is one of the more iconic s…
Colonial Photography Across Empires and Islands
When the US acquired its colonies of Puerto Rico and the Philippines in the aftermath of the 1898 war with Spain, those colonies had to be made known to American citizens. Lanny Thompson has described what he calls the “principle narratives” of the different colonies, and the ways that those narratives helped shape political debates about those colonies. Thompson notes that photography played an instrumental role in developing and representing th…
Good Neighbors and Lost Cities
This article examines how the policies and institutions of the Good Neighbor era in the 1930s and 1940s promoted the Inca archaeological site of Machu Picchu as a tourist destination and a national symbol of Peru. The article investigates the transnational effort that linked US goals to foment hemispheric solidarity with activities of the Peruvian state, as well as local aims to promote the Cuzco region, the former heart of the Inca empire where …
His Name Was Don Francisco Muro
Visual culture played a significant role in the debates surrounding American colonialism in the Philippines in the early twentieth century. One of the most important photographers working the Philippines at that time was Dean Conant Worcester, who also served as a colonial administrator. Worcester's three-part sequence of photographs supposedly showing an Igorot man becoming civilized through his contact with Americans is one of the more iconic s…
Colonial Photography Across Empires and Islands
When the US acquired its colonies of Puerto Rico and the Philippines in the aftermath of the 1898 war with Spain, those colonies had to be made known to American citizens. Lanny Thompson has described what he calls the “principle narratives” of the different colonies, and the ways that those narratives helped shape political debates about those colonies. Thompson notes that photography played an instrumental role in developing and representing th…
In Sight of America
The politics of education reforms
Transnational Business and US Diplomacy in Late Nineteenth-Century South America
The final decades of the nineteenth century were marked by diplomatic confrontations between Chile and the United States. In 1891 the killing of US Navy sailors in a riot in Valparaíso threatened to provoke armed conflict, an event known as the Baltimore Crisis. This article investigates how William Russell Grace, the head of a merchant firm based in New York, played a central role in negotiating between Chile and the United States. By placing hi…
Dean Worcester's Fantasy Islands
Dean Worcester's Fantasy Islands brings to life one of the most significant (but under examined) figures in the history of U.S. colonialism in the Philippines. Upon the outbreak of the Spanish-American War, Worcester, a scientist who had traveled twice to the Philippines on zoological expeditions, established himself as one of America's leading experts on the Philippines. Over a fourteen-year career as a member of the U.S. colonial regime, Worces…
Evaluating Innovation Projects
Established enterprises have highly developed and broadly implemented practices for evaluation of projects that support ongoing operations. In contrast, managerial practices for evaluation of innovation projects that embody high uncertainty are often limited and less mature. This article illuminates and discusses the difference in evaluation processes/systems for two different categories of innovation projects: those that support or extend ongoin…
Excerpt from Dean Worcester’s Fantasy Islands
Excerpt from Dean Worcester’s Fantasy Islands: Photography, Film, and the Colonial Philippines (University of Michigan Press, 2014)
Good Neighbors and Lost Cities
This article examines how the policies and institutions of the Good Neighbor era in the 1930s and 1940s promoted the Inca archaeological site of Machu Picchu as a tourist destination and a national symbol of Peru. The article investigates the transnational effort that linked US goals to foment hemispheric solidarity with activities of the Peruvian state, as well as local aims to promote the Cuzco region, the former heart of the Inca empire where …
M ariátegui, J osé C arlos (1894–1930)
José Carlos Mariátegui was a Peruvian Marxist intellectual and political leader born in 1894. In 1928, Mariátegui formed the Socialist Party of Peru, which he led until his death in 1930. Despite his relatively short career, Mariátegui wrote extensively on themes of Marxism, nationalism, and Andean indigenous culture and politics. Mariátegui argued in favor of adapting Marxist theories to Latin American social and political realities, which were …
Making Machu Picchu
This book examines the transformation of Machu Picchu from an obscure archaeological site into a global tourist destination and national symbol of Peru. This book illustrates how, from the very start, tourism played a central role in the modern rise of Machu Picchu. The leaders of Cusco, where Machu Picchu is located, employed tourism to argue for the importance of their region at a time when Peru’s national leaders believed that the Andean inter…
A social capital approach to the development of sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystems
US Photography in the Philippines Before 1898
Between 1890 and 1893, two young Americans, Frank Swift Bourns and Dean Conant Worcester, travelled through the central and southern Philippines on a zoological expedition. In addition to collecting animal specimens, the two men took more than one hundred and fifty photographs. These photographs have not been given much attention by historians but they are an important set of images that help expand the understanding of photography in the Philipp…
Portraits in the Andes
As scholars continue to question how (or if) the subaltern can speak, Jorge Coronado argues that to hear them we should focus on the medium in which each source is worth a thousand words: photography. Coronado's Portraits in the Andes asserts that photography, and photographic portraits in particular, offers an important source for understanding the agency of everyday people in the Andes to self-fashion their identity and relationship to modernit…
Improvised Cities
The spectacular growth of Lima's informal barriadas and pueblos jóvenes has long occupied a prominent place in the scholarly and popular imagination of Peru's twentieth-century history. For many, the image of Lima as a city of unconstrained and uncontrolled informal settlements was a singular symbol of what José Matos Mar dubbed the desborde popular that had overwhelmed Peru by the 1980s. Helen Gyger's new book, Improvised Cities, acknowledges th…
La condena de la libertad
It's hard to imagine a timelier book than La condena de la libertad. The fact that many Latin Americanists were surprised when social unrest exploded in Peru beginning in late 2022 illustrated that a new comprehensive understanding of the origins of modern Peru was needed. The fact that many have struggled to understand the current Peruvian political crisis makes the need to read this book urgent.Edited by Paulo Drinot and Alberto Vergara, La con…
The Road to the Land of the Mother of God
The title of this book suggests that it is a history of the recently completed Interoceanic Highway, which connects Peru and Brazil in the Amazonian region of Madre de Dios. The authors introduce their study as a “focus on routes and corridors . . . compared to histories of territories” (p. 7). By placing roads as the central object of study, the authors provide the reader with a new sense of understanding regional history through its relationshi…
Let This Be the Death Knell for American Exceptionalism
This essay argues that with the 2024 reelection of Donald Trump as president of the United States, the concept of “American exceptionalism” should be put to rest once and for all. The essay traces some of the history of the idea of American exceptionalism, paying particular attention to how it has been deployed in American political rhetoric over the past twenty years or so. During Trump’s first presidential campaign, some observers noted that Tr…
The Lima Phone Operators’ Strike of 1931
In August 1931, the telephone operators of Lima's US-owned phone company went on strike. The telefonistas, as these women operators were known, built alliances with feminist groups, labor organizations, and competing political movements to present themselves as decent young women abused by a foreign company. With critical national elections taking place in less than two months, defending the cause of the telefonistas became a question of defendin…
Itinerant Ideas
Itinerant Ideas convincingly argues that indigenistas in Chile and Peru did not reflect the stark national rivalry and official state rhetoric between their two countries in the first half of the twentieth century. In many ways, Joanna Crow's work is a great companion to Joshua Savala's Beyond Patriotic Phobias: Connections, Cooperation, and Solidarity in the Peruvian-Chilean Pacific World (2022), which also focuses on individual connections to s…
Alaska Joins the Whitewater Union
At first glance, Alaska seems to be a prime location for whitewater, and many of its rivers are run on both guided and unguided trips. The state’s isolation, difficult internal travel, and focus on resources over recreation delayed the development of a recreational river-running outlook and economy of the type that grew in the Intermountain West after World War II. Traces of a recreational boating outlook did appear early in these years, however,…
El terremoto del Cusco
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