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Integrating Latin America in World History

Explore why Latin America has been sidelined in global history and how it can take center stage in global processes, systems, and networks. From early migration to modern globalization, Latin America's rich history offers valuable insights.

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Integrating Latin America in World History

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  1. Integrating Latin America in World History

  2. Why has Latin America been marginalised, passive or a victim in world/global history? 1. Some global history focuses on recent past and globalization, while historians of Latin America prefer more deep-seated historical explanations 2. Global history has focused on rise of the West and “Great Divergence”, so about East-West connections and comparisons. LA is marginal to this story. 3. Global history is to some degree a descendent of British imperial historiography

  3. 4. History of the Atlantic world hasn’t broken from its Northern core. 5. Historians of LA have a commitment to local and micro history and retain a focus on archival work rather than synthesis 6. Within Latin America, history departments remain national in their research agendas and teaching curricula 7. Historians from Latin America have not learned languages other than Spanish or Portuguese, and the theory/major works in world/global history have been predominantly Anglophone.

  4. This is changing! Latin America SHOULD be constituent part of global processes, systems and networks rather than as a constantly peripheral victim or not there at all. Many topics and processes where this can happen:

  5. 1. Early human migration and domestication of crops

  6. 2. Rise of cities El Mirador, Guatemala

  7. 3. Development of trans-regional trading networks

  8. 4. Development of large-scale states and empires

  9. 5. Columbian Exchange

  10. 6. Creation of global trading networks, facilitated by Latin American silver

  11. 7. Establishment of slave plantation complexes

  12. 8. Construction of racial identities: transculturation, creolization, hybridity

  13. 9. Atlantic Revolutions

  14. coffee 10. Creation of global commodity networks in late 19thcentury

  15. Indians in Trinidad Italians in Argentina • 11. Mass migration in late 19th century, and creation of national identities

  16. 12. Anti-colonial/anti-imperial/ • left-wing movements

  17. 28th annual Asakusa Samba festival, Tokyo 13. Post WW II globalization: cultural as well as economic.

  18. 14. Neoliberalism and globalization

  19. 15. New migration patterns

  20. Migration patterns today

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