Click here for the table of contents and links to full text. This issue of Radical History Review explores tourism as a critical way of producing knowledge about the “other” and interrogates underlying systems of power that shape that knowledge production. Subaltern Sightseeing Julio Capó Jr. and Katrina Phillips address the ways subaltern groups have engaged with tourism as both the sightseers and the sightseen. Diplomacy on Display Mark Rice, Scott Laderman, and Rustem Ertug Altinay analyze the connections between foreign diplomacy and tourism in the twentieth century, using case studies of American relations with Peru, the Philippines, and Turkey. […]
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Click here for the table of contents and links to full text. This issue of Radical History Review is based on the premise that Puerto Rican history is critically important to U.S., Latin American, and world history, and is at its core a multifaceted story of colonialist oppression and people’s resistance. (Re)Views: Five-Book Overviews of Puerto Rican History Two leading historians comment on five books that introduce important aspects of Puerto Rican history. Solsiree del Moral offers a reading list on Modern Puerto Rico, particularly valuable for non-specialists. Fernando Picó discusses five books that suggest a dissenting overview that Puerto […]
Click here for the table of contents and links to full text. This special issue of Radical History Review offers case studies of technoscience engaged both with the interdisciplinary tools of science and technology studies (STS) as well as the enduring legacies of radical political critique. Technoscience, Modernity, and the State Jonathan Hill, Jr. examines the creation of the largest electrical grid in northern Mexico in order to trace the relationship between material infrastructures of power and state formation. David Roth Singerman examines how standards for making “pure” sugar rendered invisible the labors of both plantation workers and commercial chemists […]