
The US has been able to conceal its imperial nature from its own citizens, but its colonies have paid the price ■ How to Hide an Empire: A Short History of the Greater United States, Daniel Immerwahr, 2019, Bodley Head
Mexico’s president-elect delivers an unforgiving critique of moral rot at the heart of power – and outlines an uplifting vision of renewal ■ A New Hope for Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, translated by Natascha Uhlmann, 2017, Pluto Press
Ironically celebrated by Mexico’s state as a heroic precursor of the Revolution, Ricardo Flores Magón rejected any compromise with the new revolutionary order ■ The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magón, Claudio Lomnitz, 2014, Zone Books
A study of drought in Brazil reveals how politics has trumped technology
Fire hazards in 19th-century Mexico City helped to forge a new form of citizenship
The abolition of slavery in Brazil inaugurated a process that still continues
Revolutionary patriarchs prioritised their vision of social revolution over female emancipation
US car giants employed women in Mexico as a stick with which to beat male workers
A new concept of womankind was forged in post-revolutionary Mexico
How Chilean women activists on both left and right employ common strategies