December 2020
The essay Repressed memory: Rethinking the impact of Latin America’s forgotten pandemics by provides concrete examples that demonstrate the profound political impact of pandemics in Latin America, and also the lack of attention they have received in standard textbooks. Hoffmann calls on scholars to fully embrace the insights from environmental history and epidemiological research into their teaching and writing on the region.
The text was published at the European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, an Open Access, scientific journal, edited by Centre for Latin America Research and Documentation (Cedla), at the University of Amsterdam.
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Not a polar island: yellow fever in late nineteenth century Cuba It analyses the struggle for medical and sanitary hegemony, which revolved essentially around that disease.
La historiografía de la fiebre amarilla en América Latina Se identifica dos tendencias en las narrativas dominantes: la fiebre como agente de cambios históricos o vinculada a relaciones de poder.
