Helen Delpar

Biographic Data

ID687734
NAMEHelen Delpar
GIVEN NAMESHelen
FAMILY NAMEDelpar
SIGNATUREDELPAR H
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Alabama
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS41
TOTAL CITATIONS19
AUTHOR COUNT41
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1971
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
H-INDEX3

  • Kathryn E. O’Rourke. Modern Architecture in Mexico City: History, Representation, and the Shaping of a Capital

    Open AccessHelen DelparARTICLEThe American Historical Review2018

    In this hefty volume, part of a series on Culture, Politics and the Built Environment, Kathryn E. O’Rourke traces the evolution of architecture in Mexico City during the first half of the twentieth century. She is especially interested in the influence of architectural history in the interplay between colonial architecture, international modernism, and the desire to create a style that would be recognizably Mexican. With one major exception, all …

  • The Mobility of Modernism: Art and Criticism in 1920s Latin America

    Helen DelparARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review2018

    Book Review| August 01 2018 The Mobility of Modernism: Art and Criticism in 1920s Latin America The Mobility of Modernism: Art and Criticism in 1920s Latin America. By Montgomery, Harper. Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2017. Photographs. Plates. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xi, 319 pp. Paper, $29.95. Helen Delpar Helen Delpar University of Alabama Searc…

  • Ruben Flores. Backroads Pragmatists: Mexico’s Melting Pot and Civil Rights in the United States

    Helen DelparARTICLEThe American Historical Review2015

    In this ambitious, well-researched and well-written (though occasionally repetitive) volume, Ruben Flores examines the mutual interaction between John Dewey’s pragmatism; Mexico’s post-revolutionary reforms in education between 1920 and 1940; the work of Americans inspired by the Mexican example, particularly its efforts to use education to integrate its diverse populations into a unified society; and the impact of these developments on the post−…

  • Carlos Chavez and His World: Princeton University Press

    Susana González Aktorie, Ana R Alonso-Minutti et al.BOOKCarlos Chávez and His World2015Cited by: 1

    Carlos Chávez (1899–1978) is the central figure in Mexican music of the twentieth century and among the most eminent of all Latin American modernist composers. An enfant terrible in his own country, Chávez was an integral part of the emerging music scene in the United States in the 1920s. His highly individual style—diatonic, dissonant, contrapuntal—addressed both modernity and Mexico's indigenous past. Chávez was also a governmental arts adminis…

  • Casting an Image of Modernity: Yucatan at the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893

    Helen DelparCHAPTERPeripheral visions2014

  • The Latin American Literary Boom and U.S. Nationalism during the Cold War

    Helen Delpar, H Delpar H DelparARTICLEJournal of American History2013Cited by: 2

    Journal Article The Latin American Literary Boom and U.S. Nationalism during the Cold War Get access The Latin American Literary Boom and U.S. Nationalism during the Cold War. By Deborah Cohn. (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2012. xiv, 264 pp. Cloth, $69.95. Paper, $34.95.) Helen Delpar, Helen Delpar, EmeritaUniversity of AlabamaTuscaloosa, Alabama [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google…

  • Yankee Tourism in Latin America and “Soft Power”: Yankee Tourism in Latin America and “Soft Power”

    Helen DelparARTICLEDiplomatic History2011

    The subtitle of Dennis Merrill's book gives a misleading impression of its contents. It should read “U.S. Tourism and Empire in Mexico, Cuba, and Puerto Rico, 1920–1970.” He chose these places as case studies, as each of them was “a favorite U.S. vacation haunt at a key moment in international history: interwar Mexico, early Cold War Cuba, and Puerto Rico in transition from Cold War confrontation to Cold War détente” (p. 3). Merrill maintains thr…

  • The Hispanic World and American Intellectual Life, 1820-1880

    Helen DelparARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review2009

    In this book, Iván Jaksić has followed in the footsteps of other scholars, notably Stanley T. Williams and Richard L. Kagan, who have explored the impact of Spanish history and culture on the writings and worldview of prominent American intellectuals of the nineteenth century. With one exception, he focuses on individuals who have already received substantial attention in this context: Washington Irving, George Ticknor, Henry Wads worth Longfello…

  • Dwight W. Morrow: Reencuentro y revolucion en las relaciones entre Mexico y Estados Unidos, 1927-1930 (Dwight W. Morrow: Encounter and revolution in diplomatic relations between Mexico and the United …

    Helen DelparARTICLEJournal of American History2007

    María del Carmen Collado Herrera has written a well-crafted and judicious account of the achievements and failures of Dwight W. Morrow during his tenure as U.S. ambassador to Mexico (1927–1930). Morrow's appointment came at a time when relations between the two countries neared the breaking point because of issues stemming from the Mexican Revolution, such as threats to U.S. oil interests and expropriations of land owned by U.S. citizens. Aggrava…

  • Las mujeres y la sociedad colonial de Santa Fe de Bogotá, 1750-1810

    Helen DelparARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review2004

    Perhaps the strongest criticism that can be directed at María Himelda Ramírez’s book is that, at less than two hundred pages, it is too short to do justice to its subject. Even so, it is a useful addition to the rapidly growing corpus of works on gender and family in colonial New Granada. Based on a master’s thesis at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, the book marshals an impressive body of printed and manuscript sources. Much of the quantita…

  • The Color of Silver: William Spratling, His Life and ArtThe Silver Gringo: William Spratling and Taxco

    Helen DelparARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review2001

    Appearing in 2000, these two books commemorated the birth of William Spratling (1900–1967). He was an artist, writer, collector, perhaps best known as the Cellini of Taxco for his designs in silver and his successful efforts to revive silver craftsmanship there. Spratling completed an autobiography, File on Spratling (1967), shortly before his death in an automobile accident, but the volumes under review are the first book-length studies of his m…

  • Inter-American Relations and Encounters: Recent Directions in the Literature

    Open AccessHelen DelparARTICLELatin American Research Review2000

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  • Medellín, 1890-1950: Historia Urbana Y Juego De Intereses

    Helen Delpar, Fernando Botero HerreraARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review1998

  • War, Diplomacy, and Development: The United States and Mexico, 1938-1954

    Helen Delpar, Stephen R NibloARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review1996

    Despite wide-ranging reforms triggered by the epic Mexican Revolution of 1910-1923, the 1940s saw a powerful reassertion of Washington's influence over Mexico City. This book traces the course of this reversal and examines the critical role of World War II in changing US-Mexican relations

  • Mediating Two Worlds: Cinematic Encounters in the Americas

    Helen Delpar, J E King et al.ARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review1995

  • Mediating Two Worlds: Cinematic Encounters in the Americas

    Helen DelparARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review1995

    This text examines how Latin America continues to be viewed and recreated by North American and European film-makers, from Raoul Walsh and John Sturges, to Sergei Eisenstein, Luis Bunuel and Werner Herzog. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the rich and complex development of Latin American cinema and television. It brings together specially commissioned essays from scholars in Latin America, North America and Europe to open up and explore t…

  • The Enormous Vogue of Things Mexican: Cultural Relations between the United States and Mexico, 1920-1935

    Frank Ninkovich, Helen DelparARTICLEJournal of American History1994Cited by: 4

    Journal Article The Enormous Vogue of Things Mexican: Cultural Relations between the United States and Mexico, 1920–1933. By Helen Delpar. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1992. xii, 274 pp. $38.95, ISBN 0-8173-0582-3.) Get access Frank Ninkovich Frank Ninkovich St. John's University, Jamaica, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 4, March 1994, Pag…

  • Not Just for Children: The Mexican Comic Book in the Late 1960s and 1970s

    Helen Delpar, Harold E Hinds et al.ARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review1993

  • Not Just for Children: The Mexican Comic Book in the Late 1960s and 1970s

    Helen DelparARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review1993

    Preface Mexican Comic Books: Their Production and Consumption KaliMAn Lagrimas, risas y amor Rius' Los supermachos and Los agachados Post-Rius Los supermachos Chanoc El Payo La familla burron La novela policiaca Conclusion Select Bibliography Index

  • Central America and the United States: The Search for Stability. The United States and the Americas

    Helen Delpar, Thomas M LeonardARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1993

  • Life in Mexico under Santa Anna, 1822-1855

    Helen Delpar, Ruth R Olivera et al.ARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review1992

  • Life in Mexico Under Santa Anna, 1822-1855

    Helen DelparARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review1992

  • Del Vaticano a la Nueva Granada: La internuncia de Monsenor Cayetano Baluffi en Bogota, 1837-1842, primera en Hispanoamerica

    Helen Delpar, Alfonso Maria Pinilla CoteARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review1990

  • Del Vaticano a la Nueva Granada: La internuncia de Monseñor Cayetano Baluffi en Bogotá, 1837-1842, primera en Hispanoamérica

    Helen DelparARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review1990

  • Continuity Amid Paradox: Recent Writing on Colombia

    Open AccessHelen DelparARTICLELatin American Research Review1989

    Lamentations regarding neglect of Colombia by North American historians and social scientists have been frequent and well-justified. Robert Dix speculates on the reasons for this neglect in his survey of Colombian politics and concludes that Colombia "is a paradox, difficult to classify and generally lacking in the kind of political innovations that tend to attract the foreign or comparative scholar, or the foreign press" (p. 2). But the fact tha…