Sources: Workers in America: A Historical Encyclopedia

Psychiatry in Latin America: a historical perspective

The evolution of psychiatry in Latin America reflects the merger of three different types of human interactions. The first one is represented by the aborigine cultures that prevailed in this Continent before its discovery. This group in primarily represented by the Aztec and Incas Indians who primordially occupied Mexico and Peru respectively. The second one is primarily exemplified by the Span...

Reincarnation in America: A Brief Historical Overview

American theories of reincarnation have a long and complex history, dating from 1680s to the present. It is the purpose of this paper to highlight the main currents of reincarnation theory in the American context, giving a brief historical survey. Sources surveyed begin with Native American traditions, and then move to immigrant traditions based in Western Esotericism, Christianity, Judaism, mi...

Women and health in America: historical readings

interest demonstrated by a case study of liquid milk. French and Phillips indicate the importance of pressure groups in influencing the views of both civil servants and politicians about the regulatory framework that was desirable and practicable, the latter amounting to the exercise of "bureaucratic discretion". Moreover, the authors hint at a problematized version of Whitehall and Westminster...

Historical Roots of Inequality in Latin America

Following Engerman and Sokoloff (1997, 2000, 2002) and Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson (2001, 2002), the authors of this chapter argue that the contemporary situation cannot be understood without recognizing that extreme inequality emerged soon after the Europeans began to colonize the Americas half a millennium ago, and has been reflected in the institutions they put in place. Both this initia...

Music in Ibero-America to 1850: A Historical Survey (review)