Staff Profile
Professor Jens R Hentschke
Professor of Latin American History and Politics, Dr. phil. (History), Habilitation (German Higher Doctorate; Political Science), FRHistS, Deputy Head of School, Director for Postgraduate Research
- Email: j.r.hentschke@ncl.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 8710
- Personal Website: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/sml/staff
- Address: University of Newcastle
SPLAS
Old Library Building
Claremont Road
Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE1 7RU
U.K.
Background
Dpl., Dr. phil., Habilitation, FRHistS
Qualifications
1. Diploma (eq.5-year MA degree) in LA Studies/History ('Distinction')
2. Dr. phil. in Latin American History ('summa cum laude')
3. Habilitation (eq. Livre-Docência/Doctorat d'Etat) in Pol. Science
Jens R Hentschke was born in Germany but has lived in the United Kingdom (Oxford, Southampton, and Newcastle) for almost 30 years. He holds both German and UK citizenship. Jens Hentschke has repeatedly attracted long-term funding for his research (Volkswagen Foundation, German Research Foundation, AHRC) and worked, for longer periods, in archives and libraries in Latin America, the U.S., and Eastern and Western Europe. From 1996 to 2004, he was an External Senior Lecturer (Privatdozent) in Political Science at Heidelberg University, where he obtained his Habilitation, and he was also a junior exchange scholar at Brown University in Providence, Volkswagen Area Studies Visiting Fellow at St Antony's College Oxford, Visiting Professor at PUCRS in Porto Alegre, and Fellow of the Ibero-American Institute in Berlin.
Honours and Awards
Research recognition: Election to a Fellowship of the Royal Historical Society in 1998
Education at Newcastle: Student nominations for the University's Teaching Excellence Award in 2013 (category 'Innovative Teaching Method of the Year') and for The Education Award in 2023 and 2024 (category 'Outstanding Contribution to Teaching')
Roles and Responsibilities
1. Member of University Senate
2. Deputy Head of School
3. Director for Postgraduate Research
4. Performance Development Reviewer (PDR)
Membership in Subject Association and Centres
1. United Kingdom Latin American Historians Network UKLAH
2. Newcastle-Durham Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies (CNCS), U.K.
3. Conference on Latin American History (CLAH), U.S.
4. American Historical Association (AHA), U.S.
5. Society for Latin American Studies, U.K.
6. Asociación de Historiadores Latinoamericanistas Europeos (AHILA)
7. Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutsche Lateinamerika-Forschung (ADLAF), Germany, 1991-2023
8. Latin American Studies Associationm U,S., intermittent membership
Languages
German (native language), English, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Basic reading skills in Russian (once high-level proficiency) and French (3rd language in school).
Research Interests
1. History and Politics of Latin America, especially Brazil, Southern Cone, and Colombia from the late 18th to the 20th cc.
2. History of Ideas in Latin America and beyond, especially the impact of liberalism, positivism, Krausism, and (neo-) populism on state and nation-building.
3. History of Education in Latin America/social policy analysis
Recent Research
In late 2016, Jens R Hentschke published a big monograph on the normative ideas, especially liberalism, positivism, and Krausism, that shaped the transformation of Uruguay into the hemisphere's first welfare state democracy. Education was a key in the (re-) construction of the nation which began with the 'Reforma Vareliana' in the 1870s. By placing Uruguay into the broader context of what scholars have called South America's 'Corridor of Ideas' from Santiago de Chile through Buenos Aires and Montevideo to Porto Alegre, Hentschke shows how the country acted as a crossroads of intellectuals and a laboratory for the contestation, assimilation, and merger of global and autochthonous political and pedagogical philosophies (see review by Ana Frega in Hispanic American Historical Review, 99:1 (2019), 170-172: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-7288248). He then focused on two spin-offs from this monograph: first, a study on Spanish regeneracionista, Pan-Hispanista, and Krauso-Positivist Adolfo González Posada and his influence in the River Plate region; and, secondly, on the interactions between Uruguay's Reforma Vareliana and the coinciding Belgian education reform and Kulturkampf ('first guerre scolaire).
Current Research
Jens R Hentschke has just started a new monograph project, provisionally titled 'Liberty, Order, and Progress: The Transition from the 1863 Rionegro System to Rafael Nuñez's 1880s Regeneration Revisited'. This polity change is usually represented as a radical rupture, moving Colombia from ultra-federalism to rigid centralism, democracy to autocracy, governments that respected religious tolerance or wished to secularize society, to an ultramontane and neo-Thomist regime. Yet, this project wishes to challenge this notion and highlight continuities in change. This would require exploring the political philosophies of the protagonists of this process, and the focus will be on education. In this context, the German Pedagogical Mission (1872-78), which is still under-researched, deserves special attention.
Research Roles in the School
1. Member of the School Research Committee
2. Chair of Postgraduate Progress Review Panels
3. Research Mentor
4. Personal Research Plan Reviewer
5. REF Preparation Group member/Internal Quality Reviewer
Postgraduate Supervision
Jens R Hentschke is willing to supervise Masters and Ph.D. theses in HISTORY: late 18th to late 20th cc. political, social, and intellectual history of Latin America, especially Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, and Chile, with foci on state formation and reconstruction, nation-building, regional politics, education reform, positivism(s), Krausism, and populism. A good reading knowledge of Portuguese and Spanish is essential but can be acquired while at university.
Esteem Indicators
Professor Hentschke served on the Executive Committee of the British Society for Latin American Studies for 13 years, including as Vice-President (2013-15), President (2015-17) and Past President (2017-19); as Chair of the Standing Conference of Centres of Latin American Studies in the UK (2017-19); and as member of the international Scientific Advisory Board of the Ibero-American Institute Prussian Cultural Heritage in Berlin (2015-22). He was External Examiner of the Masters by Research programme at the Institute for Latin American Studies in London (2018-22), which he had previously reviewed; an Associate Fellow of the Institute of the Americas at UCL (2012-18); and an external reviewer of PhD vivas and confirmations of status at British and foreign universities (UCL, Kings College, St Andrews, Oxford, PUCRS). Prof. Hentschke belonged, for a constitutional maximum of six years, to the Arts and Humanities Research Council's Peer Review College and served on several of its panels and as Strategic Reviewer. The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research invited him to be part of a panel that reviewed the German government's 50 million Euro programme to strengthen Area Studies (2009-15). He has also acted as a peer reviewer for the British Academy, Economic and Social Research Council, The Leverhulme Trust, the National University of Ireland Studentship Board, and the international Review Board of the Chilean National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICYT); an assessor of professorial candidates; and a reader of manuscripts for many publishers and journals in Europe and the Americas. Professor Hentschke was part of the Editorial Council of the History programme of Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul Press, and continues to be on the editorial councils of the journals Estudos Ibero-Americanos at PUCRS and Anos 90 at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre, the International Editorial Council of Múltipla at UPIS in Brasília, the Scientific Committee of @rquivo Brasileiro de Educação at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais, the Advisory Council of Locus: Revista de Historia at the Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, and the Editorial Committee of Páginas de Educación at the Universidad Católica del Uruguay. He has been invited to present papers at international conferences, expert symposia, and round tables in Brazil, Germany, and the U.S. and has been repeatedly interviewed on historical and political events in Latin America by leading Brazilian broadsheet papers, BBC History, Deutsche Welle, and Reuters. His publications are recommended for further reading in encyclopedia (Lexikon der Politik, Beck, Germany/Diccionario de Ciencia Política, Porruas, Mexico), constitute required course literature at European and North American universities, and some have been translated into Portuguese and Spanish. Following an invitation by the Styrian Pedagogical Faculty and Association of Historians, he also conducted a two-day seminar for secondary school (head) teachers in Graz, Austria.
Funding
(only listing of large and research-related grants)
1. Volkswagen Foundation Area Studies Fellowship for research at St Antony's College, Oxford, 1993-5, all incl. ca. £ 30,000
2. Research Grant of Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Bonn, for field work in Germany, Britain, Brazil, and the U.S., 1996-8, ca. DM 100,000
3. Arts and Humanities Research Board Leave Award, 2001, cov. 4 months of annual salary
4. Arts and Humanities Research Council Fellowship, 2011-12, cov. 9 months of annual salary
Current Undergraduate Teaching
SPA1019 Introduction to the History, Culture, and Society of the Iberian Peninsula (Comparative History and Politics of Spain and Portugal in the first semester)
LAS2030 Comparative History of Hispano-America and Brazil from Independence to the Mexican Revolution, 1789/1810-1917
LAS4001 Inter-American Relations from the Spanish-American War to the End of the Cold War, 1898-1989/91
SML4099 Dissertation in Spanish/Portuguese/Latin American Studies (History and Politics topics)
Previous Reaching Experience
Newcastle PG: MA in Latin American Interdisciplinary Studies
- (team-taught) The Shaping of Latin America I: Social and Political Themes
- (team-taught) The Shaping of Latin America II: Arts and Humanities
- (team-taught) Thinking Latin America
- (team-taught) Research Methods
- (tutorial-based) Country Studies
- (tutorial-based) Themed Reading
- (solely taught) Intellectual and Political Thought in Brazil Since Independence
- Dissertation
UK UG:
- (team-taught) Transition to Industrial Society
- (team-taught) Introduction to Latin America (Stage 1)
- From Franco and Salazar to Liberal Democracy: Spain and Portugal in Comparison (Stage 2)
- Extended Study in Cultures of the Lusophone World (Stage 4)
- (team-taught) Introduction to the Hispanic World (Stage 1)
- (contribution to team-taught) Modern Japan (Stage 2)
Heidelberg: Upper-Level MA Students in Political Science (all solely taught)
- US Foreign Policy Towards Latin America in the Twentieth Century
- Political Thought in Latin America Since Independence: Internal Roots and External Influences
- State Corporatism and Re-Democratisation: Spain, Portugal, and Latin America in Comparison
- US World Policy and Inter-American Relations: Legacies and New Challenges After the End of the Cold War
- Populism and Neo-Populism: Europe, the US, and Latin America in Comparison
- The Great Depression and the Long-Term Transformation of Political Systems: Canada, the U.S., and Latin America in Comparison
- State- and Nation-Building in the Americas: Normative Ideas, Processes, and Impact in Comparative Perspective
Germany UG:
- (team-taught) National and Social Movements in Asia, Africa, and Latin America
- (team-taught) Colonial and National History of Latin America
- (solely taught) National History and Political System of the United States of America
- (solely taught) National History of Brazil from Cabral to Collor de Mello
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Articles
- Hentschke JR. School reforms, culture wars, and national consolidation: Uruguay and Belgium, 1860s-1915. Historia 2023, 56(1), 255-290.
- Hentschke JR. Comtismo, Castilhismo, and Varguismo: Anatomy of a Brazilian Creed. Locus: Revista de História 2021, 27(2), 245-287.
- Hentschke JR. La Escuela Normal de Paraná en Argentina y sus discípulos: fusiones de liberalismo, krausismo y positivismo comteano en el templo creado por Sarmiento para civilizar a la nación, de 1870 a 1916. Hablemos de Historia: Cuestiones Teóricas y Metodológicas de la Historia 2020, (10), 38-65.
- Hentschke JR. Adolfo Posada’s Krauso-positivist project of social and political reform: its impact on Spain, Argentina and Uruguay. Historical Research 2020, 93(259), 105-130.
- Hentschke J. More than "queens of the home": positivist modernisation, teacher training, and gender mobility in Uruguay, 1882-1915. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies 2013, 19(1), 1-30.
- Hentschke JR. José Victorino Lastarria's Libertarian Krauso-Positivism and the Discourse on State- and Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Chile. Intellectual History Review 2012, 22(2), 241-260.
- Hentschke J. Artiguista, White, Cosmopolitan, and Educated: Constructions of Nationhood in Uruguayan Textbooks and Related Narratives, 1868-1915. Journal of Latin American Studies 2012, 44(4), 733-764.
- Hentschke JR. Argentina's Escuela Normal de Paraná and its disciples: mergers of liberalism, Krausism, and Comtean positivism in Sarmiento's temple for civilizing the nation, 1870 to 1916. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies 2011, 17(1), 1-31.
- Hentschke JR. From "Order and Progress" to "National Security and Economic Development" - The Origins of Brazil's 1969 National Security State; Da "ordem e progresso" à "segurança nacional e desenvolvimento econômico" - A origem do estado de segurança nacional no Brasil de 1969. Justiça & História 2004, 4(7), 211-258.
- Hentschke JR. Interview: A Era Vargas e os seus legados a largo prazo. Entrevista com Jens R Hentschke. Impulso. Revista de Ciências Sociais e Humanas 2002, 13(31), 165-173.
- Hentschke JR. Die Entstehung des interventionistischen Staates in Brasilien. Ibero-Amerikanisches Archiv 1999, 25(3-4), 239-267.
- Hentschke JR. Langfristige Auswirkungen der Großen Depression. Brasilkunde/Estudos Brasileiros: Staden-Jahrbuch/Anuário Hanns Staden, Fundação Martius São Paulo 1996, 43/44, 15-30.
- Hentschke JR. Die Plantagensklaverei in Brasilien: Kritische Anmerkungen zum Versuch ihrer Einordnung in das Marx'sche Konzept der Produktionsweisen und Gesellschaftsformationen. Asien, Afrika, Lateinamerika 1994, 21(1), 119-134.
- Hentschke JR. Fortsetzung des Internationalismus oder isolationistische Wende? Die außen- und sicherheitspolitische Debatte in den Vereinigten Staaten nach dem Ende des Kalten Krieges. Ein Rückblick auf die Präsidentschaftswahlen 1992. Asien, Afrika, Lateinamerika 1993, 20(6), 994-1014.
- Hentschke JR. Wie finden die USA aus der Rezession? Kommunitarier und Demokraten fordern neue Wirtschafts- und Sozialethik und Investitionen im Bildungsbereich. Berliner Debatte Initial: Zeitschrift für sozialwissenschaftlichen Diskurs 1992, 1(6), 75-78.
- Hentschke JR. Die Menschheit am ethischen Scheideweg: Gedanken zur Umweltphilosophie und den Prämissen praktischen Handelns José Lutzenbergers. Reflecciones 1991, 2(2), 72-77.
- Hentschke JR. Die brasilianische Verfassung von 1891: Realität und Fiktion. Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft 1990, 38(12), 1081-1087.
- Hentschke JR. Der abolitionistisch-republikanische Kampf in Brasilien und die Große Französische Revolution: Eine ideengeschichtliche Studie. Asien, Afrika, Lateinamerika 1990, 18(2), 332-342.
- Hentschke JR. "Die Illusion der Yankees": Zu einem frühen Zeugnis konservativer Kapitalismuskritik. Lateinamerika 1989, 24(1), 137-144.
- Hentschke JR. Herausbildung und Entwicklung des brasilianischen Liberalismus im 19. Jahrhundert. Asien, Afrika, Lateinamerika 1988, 16(2), 327-338.
- Hentschke JR. Abolition der Sklaverei und Errichtung der Republik in Brasilien 1888-89 - Zäsur im brasilianischen bürgerlichen Revolutionszyklus. Lateinamerika 1988, 23(1), 9-29.
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Authored Books
- Hentschke JR. Positivismo ao estilo gaúcho: A ditadura de Júlio de Castilhos e seu impacto sobre a construção do Estado e da nação no Brasil de Getúlio Vargas. Porto Alegre: Ed. da Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, 2016.
- Hentschke JR. Philosophical Polemics, School Reform, and Nation-Building in Uruguay, 1868-1915: Reforma Vareliana and Batllismo from a Transnational Perspective. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2016.
- Hentschke JR. Reconstructing the Brazilian Nation: Public Schooling in the Vargas Era. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2007.
- Hentschke JR. Positivism gaúcho-Style: Júlio de Castilhos Dictatorship and its Impact on State- and Nation-Building in Vargas's Brazil. Berlin: Verlag für Wissenschaft und Forschung, 2004.
- Hentschke JR. Populismus: Bedeutungsebenen eines umstrittenen theoretischen Konzepts. A cross-national analysis. Münster: CeLA/University of Münster, 1998.
- Hentschke JR. Estado Novo. Genesis und Konsolidierung der brasilianischen Diktatur von 1937: Eine Fallstudie zu den sozioökonomischen und politischen Transformationen in Lateinamerika im Umfeld der Grossen Depression. Saarbrücken: Verlag für Entwicklungspolitik Saarbrücken, 1996.
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Book Chapters
- Hentschke JR. Política nutricional e poder infraestrutural do Estado no Brasil: novas perspectivas. Prefácio. In: Sören Brinkmann, Leite para os Trópicos! Consumo, produção e políticas públicas no Brasil, 1889-1964. Rio de Janeiro: Editora FIOCRUZ, 2023, pp.9-12.
- Hentschke JR. José da Silva Lisboa and Brazil's Independence: Preface. In: Guilherme Celestino, The Influence of José da Silva Lisboa’s Journalism on the Independence of Brazil (1821-1822). London and New York: Anthem Press, 2022, pp.vi-ix.
- Hentschke JR. German-Brazilians Between Conflicting Nation-State Interests: The Quest for Cultural Pluralism, 1871-1950s. In: João Paulo Avelãs Nunes, Luciano Aronne de Abreu, Miliandre Garcia de Souza, Tatyana de Amaral Maia, ed. A Independência e o Brasil Independente. Porto Alegre: EdiPUCRS, 2022, pp.199-238.
- Hentschke JR. 'Civilizar' Uruguay: la construcción cultural de la nación por los varelistas y los batllistas en el contexto de los desafíos globales. In: Sonia Scaffo, Ana Ribeiro, Dora Borges, ed. José Pedro Varela y la Sociedad de Amigos de la Educación Popular: Una década fecunda 1868-1879. Montevideo: SAEP, 2018, pp.33-60.
- Hentschke JR. Foreword. In: Michael Derham, A Study of Immigration from Spain to Venezuela, 1948-1998. Lewiston Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, 2015, pp.i-iv.
- Hentschke JR. Getúlio Vargas 1882-1954. In: Werz N, ed. Populisten, Revolutionäre, Staatsmänner: Politiker in Lateinamerika. Frankfurt am Main: Vervuert, 2009, pp.216-237.
- Hentschke JR. Politics without History?. In: Mohr, A., Nohlen, D, ed. Politikwissenschaft in Heidelberg: 50 Jahre Institut für Politische Wissenschaft. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2008, pp.365-367.
- Hentschke JR. The Vargas Era Development and Institutional Model: Themes, Debates, and Lacunas. An Introduction. In: Hentschke, JR, ed. Vargas and Brazil: New Perspectives. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, pp.1-29.
- Hentschke JR. Brasiliens Republikanisierung: Die Suche nach Alternativen in einem Prozess der "Amerikanisierung". In: Nitschack, H, ed. Brasilien im amerikanischen Kontext: Vom Kaiserreich zur Republik: Kultur, Gesellschaft und Politik. Frankfurt am Main: Teo Ferrer de Mesquita, 2005, pp.45-72.
- Hentschke JR. Lateinamerika zwischen Populismus und Neopopulismus : Die britische und amerikanische Theoriediskussion der späten 1990er Jahre und ihre Anwendung auf Brasilien, Chile und Peru. In: Nohlen, D; Sangmeister, H, ed. Macht, Markt, Meinungen : Demokratie, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft in Lateinamerika. Wiesbaden: Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2004, pp.49-74.
- Hentschke JR. O surgimento do estado intervencionista no Brasil. In: Nascimento, A, ed. Brasil: Perspectivas internacionais. Piracicaba: Universidade Metodista, 2002, pp.273-307.
- Hentschke JR. O projeto positivista no Rio Grande do Sul. In: Brancato, SML; Menezes, AMM; Kothe, MG, ed. Simpósio Internacional. Estados Americanos: Relações continentais e intercontinentais - 500 anos de história. Porto Alegre: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, 2000, pp.159-169.
- Hentschke JR. Die Ursprünge der Ära Vargas: Rio Grande do Suls positivistische Entwicklungs- und Erziehungsdiktatur. In: Eschenburg, R; Heineberg, H; Pfister, U; Strosetzky, C, ed. Lateinamerika: Gesellschaft-Raum-Kooperation. Festschrift für Achim Schrader zum 65. Geburtstag. Frankfurt am Main: Vervuert, 1999, pp.155-173.
- Hentschke JR. Zum Zusammenhang von Sklavenfrage und Staatsfrage im Brasilien des 19. Jahrhunderts. In: Zoller, R, ed. Amerikaner wider Willen: Beiträge zur Sklaverei in Lateinamerika und ihren Folgen. Frankfurt am Main: Vervuert, 1994, pp.236-265.
- Hentschke JR. Der Bürgerkrieg von 1893/95: Brennspiegel der Widersprüche bei der Republikanisierung Brasiliens. In: Schelsky, D; Zoller, R, ed. Brasilien: Die Unordnung des Fortschritts. Frankfurt am Main: Vervuert, 1994, pp.83-126.
- Hentschke JR. Plantation Slavery in Brazil and the Discussion about Modes of Production. Some Critical Comments. In: Binder, W, ed. Slavery in the Americas. Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann, 1993, pp.115-130.
- Hentschke JR. Die langfristigen Auswirkungen der Großen Depression auf das politische System Brasiliens. In: Reinhard, W; Waldmann, P, ed. Nord und Süd in Amerika: Gemeinsamkeiten, Gegensätze, europäischer Hintergrund. Freiburg im Breisgau: Rombach, 1992, pp.851-861.
- Hentschke JR. Iluminismo y Gran Revolucion Francesa en la Independencia del Brasil. In: Thiemer-Sachse, U; Pade, W; Strauch, W, ed. América Latina en el pasado, presente y futuro. 1492-1992. Rostock: Instituto Latinoamericano/University of Rostock, 1991.
- Hentschke JR. La revolución de 1888/89-94 en Brasil. In: Kossok, M; Vilaboy, SG, ed. Historia del ciclo de revoluciones de España y América Latina. La Habana: Universidad de La Habana, 1990, pp.107-111.
- Hentschke JR. La independencia de Brasil, 1817-22. In: Kossok, M; Vilaboy, SG, ed. Historia del ciclo de las revoluciones de España y América Latina. La Habana: Universidad de La Habana, 1990, pp.41-45.
- Hentschke JR. Alternativas del desarrollo histórico en el Brasil en los años veinte. Contribución a la discusión. In: Hentschke, JR, ed. Da monarquia escravocrata a república paulista. Brasil 1889. Rostock: University of Rostock: Instituto Latinoamericano, 1990, pp.45-49.
- Hentschke JR. A luta abolicionista-republicana e a Grande Revolução Francesa - um estudo de história das idéias. In: Hentschke, JR, ed. Da monarquia escravocrata a república paulista. Brasil 1889. Rostock: University of Rostock: Instituto Latinoamericano, 1990, pp.13-25.
- Hentschke JR. Der "Grito de Ipiranga" - Eine Betrachtung der brasilianischen Unabhängigkeit. In: Kossok, M, ed. Leipziger Beiträge zur Revolutionsforschung. Karl-Marx-Universitat Leipzig: Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Vergleichende Revolutionsforschung, 1986, pp.64-77.
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Edited Books
- Hentschke JR, ed. Vargas and Brazil: New Perspectives. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
- Hentschke JR, ed. Da monarquia escravocrata a república paulista: Brasil 1889. Rostock: University of Rostock: Latin American Institute, 1990.
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Reviews
- Hentschke JR. Ximena Espeche. La paradoja uruguaya: intelectuales, latinoamericanistas y nación a mediados del siglo XX. Quilmes: Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, 2016. Hispanic American Historical Review 2020, 100(2), 366-368.
- Hentschke JR. Sentir el Lugar: Diálogos Uruguay-Escocia - edited by Cordery, Lindsey, San Román, Gustavo and Vegh, Beatriz. Bulletin of Latin American Research 2015, 34(3), 410-411.
- Hentschke JR. Ursula Prutsch. Creating Good Neighbors? Die Kultur- und Wirtschaftspolitik der USA in Lateinamerika, 1940-1946. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2008. Iberoamericana 2009, 9(36), 264-266.
- Hentschke JR. Dieter Nohlen (in collaboration with Rainer-Olaf Schultze and 161 academics). Diccionario de ciencia política: teorías, métodos, conceptos. México and Veracruz: Ed. Porrúa, 2006, 2 vols. Journal of Latin American Studies 2007, 39(3), 684-685.
- Hentschke JR. Joseph Smith. The United States and Latin America: A History of American Diplomacy, 1776-2000. London: Routledge, 2005. History: The Journal of the Historical Association 2006, 91(4), 609-610.
- Hentschke JR. Jerry Dávila. Diploma of Whiteness: Race and Social Policy in Brazil. Durham, SC, and London: Duke University Press, 2003. Bulletin of Spanish Studies 2005, 82(3), 408-409.
- Hentschke JR. Colin McLachlan. A History of Modern Brazil: The Past Against the Future. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 2005. Journal of Latin American Studies 2005, 37(4), 819-821.
- Hentschke JR. Roderick S. Barman. Citizen Emperor: Pedro II and the Making of Brazil, 1825-91. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. Bulletin of Latin American Research 2001, 20(4), 530-533.
- Hentschke JR. Stephen Bell. Campanha gaúcha: A Brazilian Ranching System, 1850-1920. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. Bulletin of Latin American Research 2000, 19(1), 109-112.
- Hentschke JR. Irwin P. Stotzky. Silencing the Guns in Haiti: The Promise of Deliberative Democracy. Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 1997. Notas: ReseÑas iberoamericanas. Literatura, sociedad, historia 2000, 7(1), 205-208.
- Hentschke JR. Michaela Hellmann (ed.). Ohne uns keine Demokratie - sem gente nao tem jeito: Soziale Bewegungen und die Auseinandersetzungen um die Demokratie in Brasilien. Unkel am Rhein: Horlemann, 1995. Notas: ReseÑas iberoamericanas. Literatura, sociedad, historia 1997, 4(1), 187-189.
- Hentschke JR. Michaela Hellmann (ed.). Ohne uns keine Demokratie - sem gente nao tem jeito: Soziale Bewegungen und die Auseinandersetzungen um die Demokratie in Brasilen. Unkel am Rhein: Horlemann, 1995. Tópicos 1996, (4), 56.
- Hentschke JR. Thomas H. Holloway. Policing Rio de Janeiro: Repression and Resistance in a 19th-Century City. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993. Bulletin of Latin American Research 1995, 14(1), 80-81. In Preparation.
- Hentschke JR. Stefan A. Schirm. Brasilien: Regionalmacht zwischen Autonomie und Dependenz. Aussenpolitik, Wirtschaft und Sicherheit im internationalen und lateinamerikanischen Kontext (1979-1988. Hamburg: Lit-Verlag, 1990. Asien, Afrika, Lateinamerika 1994, 21(4), 665-667.
- Hentschke JR. José Cordeiro. Indianer in Ceará: 400 Jahre Massaker und Widerstand. Mettingen: Brasilienkunde-Verlag, 1991. Asien, Afrika, Lateinamerika 1994, 22(1), 113-115.
- Hentschke JR. Jochen Hippler. Die neue Weltordnung. Hamburg: Institut für Internationale Politik, 1991. Asien, Afrika, Lateinamerika 1993, 20(5), 957-993.
- Hentschke JR. Ernst-Otto Czempiel. Weltpolitik im Umbruch: Das internationale System nach dem Ende des Ost-West Konflikts. Munich: C. H. Beck, 1991. Asien, Afrika, Lateinamerika 1993, 20(1), 183-210.
- Hentschke JR. Andreas Boueke. Betr. Amerika: Ein Kontinent von unten gesehen. Unkel am Rhein and Bad Honnef: Horlemann, 1992. Asien, Afrika, Lateinamerika 1993, 21(2), 316-317.
- Hentschke JR. Johannes Poegl. Die reiche Fracht des Pedro Álvares Cabral: Seine indische Fahrt und die Entdeckung Brasiliens. Stuttgart: Erdmann Thienemann, 1990. Renaissance-Hefte 1992, 1(4), 102-103.
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