Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

Sanhueza-Cerda, Carlos, The Day Laborers of Science. Technical Work at the Astronomical Observatory of Chile (1852-1927). (SpringerBriefs in History of Science and Technology) 109 pp. 2025:4 (Springer, GW) <745-77>
ISBN 978-3-031-84349-5 paper ¥11,656.- (税込) EUR 49.99

This book fills a significant gap in the historiography of science by examining the overlooked contributions of non-astronomical personnel in the early National Astronomical Observatory of Chile. Drawing upon David Edgerton's critique of the bias towards academic scientists in historical narratives, this research delves into the roles of other scientists, technicians, collaborators, and other support staff in shaping scientific endeavors. The book analyzes archival documents and reveals the essential yet often unacknowledged labor involved in routine scientific tasks. By challenging the hierarchical structure of observatory organizations and spotlighting the significance of routine work, the book redefines the production of scientific knowledge beyond the conventional focus on eminent scientists. Emphasizing the importance of failures, conflicts, and controversies, this book unveils the hidden narratives of everyday scientific labor, offering a more comprehensive understanding of the history of astronomy in Chile.

スペインの大西洋世界　1492～1825年
Andrien, Kenneth J., The Spanish Atlantic World 1492 to 1825: From Kingdoms to Colonies to Independence. 264 pp. 2025:7 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <745-805>
ISBN 978-0-19-023882-7 hard ¥27,442.- (税込) US$ 132.00
ISBN 978-0-19-023883-4 paper ¥6,237.- (税込) US$ 30.00

Catuhe, Alexis, 1973: la France au Chili: une histoire diplomatique. (Recherches et documents. Ameriques latines) 238 p. 2025:1 (L'Harmattan, FR) <745-806>
ISBN 978-2-336-45048-3 paper ¥5,830.- (税込) EUR 25.00

Crawford, Charmaine, Gender, Sexual Citizenship and Epistemic Injustice in the Caribbean. (Palgrave Pivot) 149 pp. 2025:4 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <745-807>
ISBN 978-3-031-83492-9 hard ¥11,656.- (税込) EUR 49.99

This book interrogates the relationship between gender, sexual citizenship and epistemic injustice as it relates to the experiences of LGBTQ persons in the Commonwealth Caribbean. Whether it is the recognition of gender/sexual identities, sexual freedom, bodily autonomy, marriage or creating a family, sexual citizenship encompasses different aspects of our intimate lives that have erotic, social, and economic value that are organised and legitimised through the family, religion, law, state, family, and civil society. Employing decolonial feminist queer perspectives, this book considers how race, gender, and sexuality intersect through matrices of power in shaping intimate life in giving more rights and freedoms to some over others. While Caribbean sexualities are rich and diverse, there still exists dominant colonial and post-colonial heteropatriarchal ideologies and practices that infringe on the sexual rights of Caribbean LGBTQ persons normalising discriminatory treatment (homophobia, lesbophobia and transphobia) against them. Despite efforts to silence Caribbean LGBTQ persons, they have politicised their cause by engaging in epistemic resistance. Caribbean LGBTQ activism encompasses a myriad of social justice efforts, incorporating intersectional politics with feminists and other groups, which validate queer identities, knowledges and lives in the region and diaspora. This book showcases how Caribbean LGBTQ activists are using strategic litigation anchored in social justice hermeneutics to upend vagrancy and anti-buggery laws, which has led to successful decriminalisation cases in the region. This book will interest researchers and students in women's, gender, and sexuality studies and Caribbean studies.

Guizardi, Menara / Gonzalvez, Herminia / Stefoni, C. (eds.), How to Suppress the Careers of Female Social Scientists. Volume 1: A Feminist Ethnographic Anti-manual from Chile. 307 pp. 2025:5 (Springer, GW) <745-808>
ISBN 978-3-031-84131-6 hard ¥32,644.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This book is the first of a series of five volumes that analyze and denounce the gender inequalities and violence faced by Latin American female social scientists in academic settings. The five volumes will present and discuss the results of an ethnographic research project conducted in four countries - Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico - to analyze gender inequalities experienced by Latin American women in five dimensions of academic life: undergraduate education, graduate education, labor insertion, professional performance in stable positions, and gender violence faced at work. This first volume narrates the creation of the research project, from the formulation of its methodological strategy to the application and analysis of its first case study in Chile. It presents the theoretical-methodological perspective adopted in the whole project - a feminist ethnography that draws on the intersubjective role of female experiences to denounce situations of power inequality - and analyses the testimonies of 50 female academics working in 12 universities in nine cities of Chile. The title of the five-volume set, How to Suppress the Careers of Female Social Scientists, pays homage to the seminal work of Joanna Russ about gender inequalities faced by female writers, How to Suppress Women's Writing, and this first volume is both a "manual" and an "anti-manual". On the one hand, the first two parts of the book serve as a "manual" that situates the Chilean case, clarifies the methodological construction of the research project and discusses the limitations and possibilities of feminist methodologies in the social sciences. On the other hand, the third and fourth parts of the book are ironically presented as an "anti-manual" that explain how the careers of female social scientists are destroyed by intersectional gender-based inequalities and violence, even in social contexts that are open to equity policies.

Kressel, Daniel Gunnar, Hispanic Technocracy: From Fascism to Catholic Authoritarianism in Spain, Argentina, and Chile, 1945-1991. (Cambridge Latin American Studies) 212 pp. 2025:7 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <745-809>
ISBN 978-1-009-60304-1 hard ¥23,562.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00

Hispanic Technocracy explores the emergence, zenith, and demise of a distinctive post-fascist school of thought that materialized as state ideology during the Cold War in three military regimes: Francisco Franco's Spain (1939-1975), Juan Carlos Ongania's Argentina (1966-1973), and Augusto Pinochet's Chile (1973-1988). In this intellectual and cultural history, Daniel Gunnar Kressel examines how Francoist Spain replaced its fascist ideology with an early-neoliberal economic model. With the Catholic society Opus Dei at its helm amid its 'economic miracle' of the 1960s, it fostered a modernity that was 'European in the means' and 'Hispanic in the ends.' Kressel illuminates how a transatlantic network of ideologues championed this model in Latin America as an authoritarian state model that was better suited to their modernization process. In turn, he illustrates how Argentine and Chilean ideologues adapted the Francoist ideological toolkit to their political circumstances, thereby transcending the original model.

Schpun, Monica Raisa, Aracy de Carvalho and Jewish Rescue from 1930s Germany: A Righteous Brazilian. 321 pp. 2025:5 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <745-815>
ISBN 978-3-031-84103-3 hard ¥30,312.- (税込) EUR 129.99

Aracy de Carvalho (1908-2011), 'Righteous Among the Nations', saved German Jews by facilitating their emigration to Brazil in the late 1930s, while working at the Brazilian consulate in Hamburg. Margarethe Levy (1908-2011), who left for Brazil shortly after Kristallnacht with her husband, was one such case. In the late 1970s, she claimed the title of Righteous from Yad Vashem for Carvalho, who had become her lifelong friend. The main thread of this book follows the crossed migrations of these two women between Brazil and Germany, and the long friendship that brought them together. Through this axis it traces the migratory paths of a group of German Jews who, like Levy, left Hamburg to settle in Sao Paulo.

現代ラテンアメリカ　第10版
Smith, Peter, Modern Latin America. 10th ed. 544 pp. 2025:10 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <745-816>
ISBN 978-0-19-780211-3 paper ¥20,787.- (税込) US$ 99.99

Vargas Velasquez, Yajaira, Fortunes de mer et sauvetages dans la mer des Caraibes du XVIe au XVIIIe siecle: des epaves et des hommes au temps des galions. (Historiques. Serie Travaux) 203 p. 2025:1 (L'Harmattan, FR) <745-817>
ISBN 978-2-336-51490-1 paper ¥5,596.- (税込) EUR 24.00

ベネズエラのボリバル主義の権威主義－H.チャベス下の石油国家の前進と崩壊
Vazquez, Gonzalo E., Venezuela's Bolivarian Authoritarianism: The Advance and Collapse of a Petrostate under Hugo Chavez. 227 S. 2025:3 (Nomos, GW) <745-818>
ISBN 978-3-7560-2452-0 paper ¥13,758.- (税込) EUR 59.00

The goal of this work is to analyse Venezuela’s political regime under Hugo Chavez, focusing on its position between democracy and authoritarianism. It aims to explain the shift from democracy to a restricted regime through comparative studies, hypotheses and process-tracing. By examining Venezuela's trajectory, the study seeks to clarify contemporary issues, provide policy insights for the current government and enhance understanding of democratic backsliding globally.

Malcolm, Harold B., Poverty in Jamaica: A Law and Policy Perspective. 182 pp. 2025:4 (Springer, GW) <745-355>
ISBN 978-3-031-83499-8 hard ¥27,980.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book examines the genesis of poverty in Jamaica and how policies and laws related to social and economic rights can help with the promotion and protection of human rights as part of a broader worldview of human dignity. It explores the scope of the country's obligations and capabilities in line with its municipal and international obligations. It sets out through the policy lenses of the New Haven School of Jurisprudence to understand how Jamaica can fulfil these obligations in a meaningful way to impact the daily lives of its people. Through a historical survey to the present-day Jamaica, the exploration uses the theoretical frame of the New Haven School of Jurisprudence which underscores human dignity as being paramount to the attainment of human progress and development. The trajectory of the modern human rights movement and constitutional apparatus of nation states help to reinforce and entrench the ways, standards and norms relating to social and economic rights are observed. This, too, is a consideration for this small island state in the Northern Caribbean. However, the jurisprudential question is how the interpretation of laws, and the implementation of policies can be synchronized as conditioning factors of a global consensus on human dignity especially for the most vulnerable. Socio economic rights underscore a public morality though their potential enforcement is often criticized as too vague and imprecise for lasting or meaningful effect. The New Haven School of Jurisprudence with its emphasis on human dignity in the world community points to a new approach to the egregious human rights violations caused by poverty and the part played by these second-generation rights. The book combines academic rigor with substantial hands-on legal experience, and will be of interest to scholars, practitioners, and policymakers focused on human rights in the region.

Milton, Cynthia E. / Lazzara, Michael (eds.), How the Military Remembers: Human Rights and Countermemories in Latin America. (Critical Human Rights) 312 pp. 2025:7 (U. Wisconsin Pr., US) <745-408>
ISBN 978-0-299-35270-7 hard ¥16,621.- (税込) US$ 79.95

This groundbreaking collection of essays by experts in political science, sociology, history, and literature analyzes the nuanced and often contentious interplay between memory, truth, and accountability in contemporary Latin America. While previous studies have examined democratization efforts (and right-wing backlashes), transitional justice, and victim-oriented narratives since the end of the Cold War, this volume takes a new approach. It convincingly demonstrates the importance of deconstructing the militaries' own active memory work-or rather countermemory work, a term the contributors employ to refer to military memories that are both counterintuitive and run counter to the "victim-oriented" memories that have historically informed Latin American public memory and human rights activism. With an eye toward particular cultural, political, and historical contexts of the specific countries involved, the collection emphasizes the continuities that come into relief by taking a broader regional focus. The contributors identify the many subtle ways in which past military perpetrators appropriate mechanisms of accountability and truth-telling to reconfigure the past, muddy the distinctions between perpetrator and victim, and weaponize ways of remembering.

Mommer, Bernard, Natural Resources and Globalization: Petroleum and Venezuela as Examples. (Inter-national) 292 p. 2025:1 (L'Harmattan, FR) <745-202>
ISBN 978-2-336-49702-0 paper ¥6,996.- (税込) EUR 30.00

Pasquariello Mariano, Karina L. / Nitsch Bressan, R. et al., Liquid Regionalism in the Americas: An Analysis of Contemporary Regional Developments. (United Nations University Series on Regionalism 29) 157 pp. 2025:2 (Springer, GW) <745-211>
ISBN 978-3-031-83798-2 hard ¥27,980.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book develops a comprehensive analysis of contemporary regionalism in the Americas, which the authors characterise as Liquid Regionalism, given its unstable, flexible and loose characteristics. It innovates by introducing a new concept to assess regional initiatives in the American continents, contributing to Latin American and comparative regionalism research agendas. The book analyses major regional projects in the Americas and develops these into a novel typology of consultation, cooperation and integration. This typology helps explain the level of commitments and institutional depth of regional initiatives across the continent. The book is for scholars, postgraduate and undergraduate students interested in the regional and political dynamics of the Americas across the social sciences, including international relations, political science, sociology, international political economy, international trade, and history.