Steve J. Stern

In this study of gender relations in late colonial Mexico (ca. 1760–1821), Steve Stern analyzes the historical connections between gender, power, and politics in the lives of peasants, Indians, and other marginalized peoples. Through vignettes of... Lire la suite

Battling for Hearts and Minds is the story of the dramatic struggle to define collective memory in Chile during the violent, repressive dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, from the 1973 military coup in which he seized power through his defeat... Lire la suite

Reclaiming the Political in Latin American History is a collection that embraces a new social and cultural history of Latin America that is not divorced from politics and other arenas of power. True to the intellectual vision of Brazilian historian... Lire la suite

Para el año 2000, las dictaduras que gobernaron los países del Cono Sur de América Latina -Argentina, Uruguay y Chile- en las décadas de 1970 y 1980 ya habían desaparecido. La democracia parecía consolidada, aunque aún hubiera de pasar por duras... Lire la suite

During the two years just before the 1998 arrest in London of General Augusto Pinochet, the historian Steve J. Stern had been in Chile collecting oral histories of life under Pinochet as part of an investigation into the form and meaning of memories... Lire la suite

Reckoning with Pinochet is the first comprehensive account of how Chile came to terms with General Augusto Pinochet’s legacy of human rights atrocities. An icon among Latin America’s “dirty war” dictators, Pinochet had ruled with extreme violence... Lire la suite