Book Reviews by Beau Gaitors
Book Review of Michael Matthews, "The Civilizing Machine: A Cultural History of Mexican Railroads... more Book Review of Michael Matthews, "The Civilizing Machine: A Cultural History of Mexican Railroads, 1876-1910" (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2013)
Book Review of Jerome C. Branch, "The Poetics and Politics of Diaspora: Transatlantic Musings" (N... more Book Review of Jerome C. Branch, "The Poetics and Politics of Diaspora: Transatlantic Musings" (New York: Routledge, 2015)
Book Review of Russell Lohse, "Africans into Creoles: Slavery, Ethnicity, and Identity in Colonia... more Book Review of Russell Lohse, "Africans into Creoles: Slavery, Ethnicity, and Identity in Colonial Costa Rica" (Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press, 2014)
Papers by Beau Gaitors
Hispanic American Historical Review, 2020
História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos, 2018
While commercial links between Mexico and the United States through the port city of Veracruz bro... more While commercial links between Mexico and the United States through the port city of Veracruz brought significant economic and social advantages in the early nineteenth century, public health concerns around yellow fever produced fascination and fear among US audiences (in southern and eastern port cities) from times of peace until the US invasion and occupation of Mexico (1846-1848). This article addresses the complex linkages between commerce, conflict, and contamination in reference to the port city of Veracruz and the United States in Mexico’s early decades of independence. More specifically, this article addresses the concern in early nineteenth-century US periodicals around yellow fever outbreaks and potential contamination, showing the constant presence of yellow fever in Veracruz in the US imaginary.
Hispanic American Historical Review
História, Ciências, Saúde – Manguinhos, 2018
While commercial links between Mexico and the United States through the port city of Veracruz bro... more While commercial links between Mexico and the United States through the port city of Veracruz brought significant economic and social advantages in the early nineteenth century, public health concerns around yellow fever produced fascination and fear among US audiences (in southern and eastern port cities) from times of peace until the US invasion and occupation of Mexico (1846-1848). This article addresses the complex linkages between commerce, conflict, and contamination in reference to the port city of Veracruz and the United States in Mexico’s early decades of independence. More specifically, this article addresses the concern in early nineteenth-century US periodicals around yellow fever outbreaks and potential contamination, showing the constant presence of yellow fever in Veracruz in the US imaginary. Keywords: commerce; disease; Veracruz; yellow fever.
The Latin Americanist, 2015
The CLR James Journal, 2015
Scholars often characterize the Afro-Mexican experience through depictions of a large presence du... more Scholars often characterize the Afro-Mexican experience through depictions of a large presence during the colonial period and a rapid decline after Mexican independence. Prior studies emphasized miscegenation and racism as causes of the disappearance of Afro-Mexicans from Mexican society. This thesis addresses the presence and subsequent disappearance of Afro-Mexicans from Guadalajara. Census records show that the Afro-Mexican population in Guadalajara was significant, one-fourth of the population, at the end of the colonial period. However, records also show that the Afro-Mexican population experienced a substantial decline to only two percent of Guadalajara's population at the dawn of independence. This thesis asserts that the “disappearance” of Afro-Mexicans was a result of integration, especially in the residential and occupational spheres of Guadalajara. The two percent of Afro-Mexicans recorded in the census illustrates that Afro-Mexicans continued to integrate into socie...
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