Catherine C Legrand
Biographic Data
| ID | 552884 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Catherine C Legrand |
| GIVEN NAMES | Catherine C |
| FAMILY NAME | Legrand |
| SIGNATURE | LEGRAND C C |
| AFFILIATIONS | McGill University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Charles W. Bergquist (1942–2020)
Charles “Chuck” Bergquist passed away peacefully in his sleep on July 30, 2020. An intense, politically engaged, generous scholar and friend, he was a pathbreaking activist historian of labor and capitalism who made major contributions to Colombian history and the comparative history of the Americas.Born to a working-class family in 1942, Bergquist grew up in Seattle, known for its strong culture of union organizing, the 1919 general strike, and …
M arixa L asso . Erased: The Untold Story of the Panama Canal
Marixa Lasso’s Erased: The Untold Story of the Panama Canal is the first book written by a Panamanian historian to focus on the period of the US construction of the Panama Canal. A strikingly original study, it provides a novel vantage point on US intervention in Panama from 1903 to 1916, as well as its impact and legacies, and in so doing makes powerful arguments about neocolonialism and modernity. It concentrates on the creation of the Canal Zo…
Land, justice, and memory: Challenges for peace in Colombia
En esta introducción, los editores presentan los siete artículos que hacen parte de este número especial sobre Colombia. Los editores explican el contexto de la guerra que ha devastado este país durante más de 50 años y subrayan temas comunes que conectan los artículos. El ensayo también analiza cómo el acuerdo de paz logrado en 2016 busca reconocer las causas del conflicto con el fin de establecer una paz duradera con justicia. El ensayo también…
Legal narratives of citizenship, the social question, and public order in Colombia, 1915-1930 and after
This article focuses on what happened to citizenship rights in Colombia in the 1920s when urbanization and industrialization brought the ‘social question’ to the fore. In exploring the categories relating to citizenship and narratives about them in laws and congressional debates, it reads the fields of political, social, and civil rights in relation to one another and signals the particular anxieties that centred and still today centre on civil r…
The Dictator's Seduction: Politics and the Popular Imagination in the Era of Trujillo
Studying the logic and social bases of twentieth-century dictatorships in the Caribbean and Central America recently has attracted a small coterie of sophisticated historians. Some of the most innovative focus on the “sultanic” regime of Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic (Eric Roorda, 1998; Richard Turits, 2003; Christian Krohn-Hansen, 2009). Lauren Derby’s long-awaited study of the symbolic cultural politics of Trujillo’s rule greatly en…
Myths of Harmony: Race and Republicanism during the Age of Revolution, Colombia, 1795-1831 - by Lasso, M
The Colombian Crisis in Historical Perspective
This article explores the nineteenth- and twentieth-century roots of the present violence in Colombia and the main actors involved therein. Focusing on the civilian government, the Colombian military, the FARC and ELN guerrillas, and the paramilitaries, it emphasizes the chronic weakness of the state, the privatization and regionalization of conflict, the impact of the cocaine export economy, and the difficulties of coming to a peace agreement. T…
Close Encounters of Empire: Writing the Cultural History of U.S.-Latin American Relations
Close Encounters of Empire: Writing the Cultural History of U.S.-Latin American Relations
Foreword / Fernando Coronil ix Preface xiii I: Theoretical Concerns Close Encounters: Toward a New Cultural History of U.S.-Latin American Relations / Gilbert M. Joseph 3 The Decentered Center and the Expansionist Periphery: The Paradoxes of Foreign-Local Encounter / Steve J. Stern 47 The Enterprise of Knowledge: Representational Machines of Informal Empire / Ricardo d. Salvatore 69 II: Empirical Studies Landscape and the Imperial Subject: U.S. I…
Informal Resistance on a Dominican Sugar Plantation During the Trujillo Dictatorship
The cane cutters who toiled on the great foreign-owne sugar plantations of the twentieth-century Caribbean were sorne of the most exploited of Latin American wage workers. Employed only for the five-month sugar harvest, they did long hours of back-breaking work in stifling heat for barely subsistence pay. Because the work was seasonal and many of the workers were temporary migrant laborers from other countries, unionization was difficult and lega…
Informal Resistance on a Dominican Sugar Plantation During the Trujillo Dictatorship
HE cane cutters who toiled on the great foreign-owned sugar plantations of the twentieth-century Caribbean were some of the most exploited of Latin American wage workers. Employed only for the five-month sugar harvest, they did long hours of backbreaking work in stifling heat for barely subsistence pay. Because the work was seasonal and many of the workers were temporary migrant laborers from other countries, unionization was difficult and legal …
Perspectives for the Historical Study of Rural Politics and the Colombian Case: An Overview
In the study of agrarian politics in general and the history of rural Colombia in particular, four broad, interrelated perspectives are relevant to the understanding of rural politics: peasants and rebellion, the interaction of local and national politics, patron-client relations, and regionalism. Principal issues and trends within each of these areas are explored here, and an effort is made to generate specific questions for historical investiga…
Close Encounters of Empire: Writing the Cultural History of U.S.-Latin American Relations
Foreword / Fernando Coronil ix Preface xiii I: Theoretical Concerns Close Encounters: Toward a New Cultural History of U.S.-Latin American Relations / Gilbert M. Joseph 3 The Decentered Center and the Expansionist Periphery: The Paradoxes of Foreign-Local Encounter / Steve J. Stern 47 The Enterprise of Knowledge: Representational Machines of Informal Empire / Ricardo d. Salvatore 69 II: Empirical Studies Landscape and the Imperial Subject: U.S. I…
Land, justice, and memory: Challenges for peace in Colombia
En esta introducción, los editores presentan los siete artículos que hacen parte de este número especial sobre Colombia. Los editores explican el contexto de la guerra que ha devastado este país durante más de 50 años y subrayan temas comunes que conectan los artículos. El ensayo también analiza cómo el acuerdo de paz logrado en 2016 busca reconocer las causas del conflicto con el fin de establecer una paz duradera con justicia. El ensayo también…
The Colombian Crisis in Historical Perspective
This article explores the nineteenth- and twentieth-century roots of the present violence in Colombia and the main actors involved therein. Focusing on the civilian government, the Colombian military, the FARC and ELN guerrillas, and the paramilitaries, it emphasizes the chronic weakness of the state, the privatization and regionalization of conflict, the impact of the cocaine export economy, and the difficulties of coming to a peace agreement. T…
Perspectives for the Historical Study of Rural Politics and the Colombian Case: An Overview
In the study of agrarian politics in general and the history of rural Colombia in particular, four broad, interrelated perspectives are relevant to the understanding of rural politics: peasants and rebellion, the interaction of local and national politics, patron-client relations, and regionalism. Principal issues and trends within each of these areas are explored here, and an effort is made to generate specific questions for historical investiga…
Legal narratives of citizenship, the social question, and public order in Colombia, 1915-1930 and after
This article focuses on what happened to citizenship rights in Colombia in the 1920s when urbanization and industrialization brought the ‘social question’ to the fore. In exploring the categories relating to citizenship and narratives about them in laws and congressional debates, it reads the fields of political, social, and civil rights in relation to one another and signals the particular anxieties that centred and still today centre on civil r…
Informal Resistance on a Dominican Sugar Plantation During the Trujillo Dictatorship
The cane cutters who toiled on the great foreign-owne sugar plantations of the twentieth-century Caribbean were sorne of the most exploited of Latin American wage workers. Employed only for the five-month sugar harvest, they did long hours of back-breaking work in stifling heat for barely subsistence pay. Because the work was seasonal and many of the workers were temporary migrant laborers from other countries, unionization was difficult and lega…
Perspectives for the Historical Study of Rural Politics and the Colombian Case: An Overview
In the study of agrarian politics in general and the history of rural Colombia in particular, four broad, interrelated perspectives are relevant to the understanding of rural politics: peasants and rebellion, the interaction of local and national politics, patron-client relations, and regionalism. Principal issues and trends within each of these areas are explored here, and an effort is made to generate specific questions for historical investiga…
Informal Resistance on a Dominican Sugar Plantation During the Trujillo Dictatorship
HE cane cutters who toiled on the great foreign-owned sugar plantations of the twentieth-century Caribbean were some of the most exploited of Latin American wage workers. Employed only for the five-month sugar harvest, they did long hours of backbreaking work in stifling heat for barely subsistence pay. Because the work was seasonal and many of the workers were temporary migrant laborers from other countries, unionization was difficult and legal …
Informal Resistance on a Dominican Sugar Plantation During the Trujillo Dictatorship
The cane cutters who toiled on the great foreign-owne sugar plantations of the twentieth-century Caribbean were sorne of the most exploited of Latin American wage workers. Employed only for the five-month sugar harvest, they did long hours of back-breaking work in stifling heat for barely subsistence pay. Because the work was seasonal and many of the workers were temporary migrant laborers from other countries, unionization was difficult and lega…
Close Encounters of Empire: Writing the Cultural History of U.S.-Latin American Relations
Foreword / Fernando Coronil ix Preface xiii I: Theoretical Concerns Close Encounters: Toward a New Cultural History of U.S.-Latin American Relations / Gilbert M. Joseph 3 The Decentered Center and the Expansionist Periphery: The Paradoxes of Foreign-Local Encounter / Steve J. Stern 47 The Enterprise of Knowledge: Representational Machines of Informal Empire / Ricardo d. Salvatore 69 II: Empirical Studies Landscape and the Imperial Subject: U.S. I…
Close Encounters of Empire: Writing the Cultural History of U.S.-Latin American Relations
The Colombian Crisis in Historical Perspective
This article explores the nineteenth- and twentieth-century roots of the present violence in Colombia and the main actors involved therein. Focusing on the civilian government, the Colombian military, the FARC and ELN guerrillas, and the paramilitaries, it emphasizes the chronic weakness of the state, the privatization and regionalization of conflict, the impact of the cocaine export economy, and the difficulties of coming to a peace agreement. T…
Myths of Harmony: Race and Republicanism during the Age of Revolution, Colombia, 1795-1831 - by Lasso, M
The Dictator's Seduction: Politics and the Popular Imagination in the Era of Trujillo
Studying the logic and social bases of twentieth-century dictatorships in the Caribbean and Central America recently has attracted a small coterie of sophisticated historians. Some of the most innovative focus on the “sultanic” regime of Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic (Eric Roorda, 1998; Richard Turits, 2003; Christian Krohn-Hansen, 2009). Lauren Derby’s long-awaited study of the symbolic cultural politics of Trujillo’s rule greatly en…
Legal narratives of citizenship, the social question, and public order in Colombia, 1915-1930 and after
This article focuses on what happened to citizenship rights in Colombia in the 1920s when urbanization and industrialization brought the ‘social question’ to the fore. In exploring the categories relating to citizenship and narratives about them in laws and congressional debates, it reads the fields of political, social, and civil rights in relation to one another and signals the particular anxieties that centred and still today centre on civil r…
Land, justice, and memory: Challenges for peace in Colombia
En esta introducción, los editores presentan los siete artículos que hacen parte de este número especial sobre Colombia. Los editores explican el contexto de la guerra que ha devastado este país durante más de 50 años y subrayan temas comunes que conectan los artículos. El ensayo también analiza cómo el acuerdo de paz logrado en 2016 busca reconocer las causas del conflicto con el fin de establecer una paz duradera con justicia. El ensayo también…
Charles W. Bergquist (1942–2020)
Charles “Chuck” Bergquist passed away peacefully in his sleep on July 30, 2020. An intense, politically engaged, generous scholar and friend, he was a pathbreaking activist historian of labor and capitalism who made major contributions to Colombian history and the comparative history of the Americas.Born to a working-class family in 1942, Bergquist grew up in Seattle, known for its strong culture of union organizing, the 1919 general strike, and …
M arixa L asso . Erased: The Untold Story of the Panama Canal
Marixa Lasso’s Erased: The Untold Story of the Panama Canal is the first book written by a Panamanian historian to focus on the period of the US construction of the Panama Canal. A strikingly original study, it provides a novel vantage point on US intervention in Panama from 1903 to 1916, as well as its impact and legacies, and in so doing makes powerful arguments about neocolonialism and modernity. It concentrates on the creation of the Canal Zo…
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