My research (and graduate training interests)
span most of modern Latin America, with an emphasis on Andean
and Mexican history and historical sociology. My current writing
is about the history of contested drug-commodities, particularly
Andean cocaine in its global context, on which I recently published.
Before that, I wrote mainly about 19th-century Peru, in terms
of economic history, state formation, political economy, social
history and the history of economic ideas. Related to work at
the Social Science Research Council, I have a broad interest
in social science and historical practice, and the advance of
interpretive and historical social science during today's cultural
turn.
Recent
Publications:
"Between Coca and Cocaine: A Century or More
of U.S.-Peruvian Drug Paradoxes," Hispanic American Historical
Review, 83/1, Feb. 2003
"Hijos of Dr. Gerschenkron: Late-Comer Conceptions
in Latin American Economic History" In M. Centeno, F. López-Alva,
eds. The Other Mirror (Princeton, 2001).
Cocaine: Global Histories, ed. Paul Gootenberg
(New York: Routledge, 1999).
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