Dr. Michael Schroeder

Awarded the Davis Prize of the Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies (MACLAS) for the best article published by a MACLAS member in 2011-2012, for "Cultural Geographies of Grievance & War: Nicaragua's Atlantic Coast Region in the First Sandinista Revolution, 1926-1934," Dialectical Anthropology, Dec. 2012.

Website

www.SandinoRebellion.com

                           

 

Books

2007.  Mexican-Americans: The New Immigrants New York: Chelsea House. (Middle-school text for a series on immigrant groups in the United States, ca. 30,000 words).

2007.  The Twentieth Century and Beyond. New York: McGraw-Hill. Co-authored with Richard Goff, Walter Moss, Janice Terry, and Jiu-Hwa Upshur. (Wrote all chapters on the Americas.)

2007.  Encyclopedia of World History, 7 vols. New York: Facts On File. General editor, with Marsha Ackerman, Janice Terry, Jiu-Hwa Upshur, and Mark Whitters. (Wrote c. 170 entries [140,000 words] on the history of the Americas.)

Peer-Reviewed Articles & Book Chapters  (click on links for PDF files)

2012.  "Social Geographies of Grievance & War:  Nicaragua's Atlantic Coast Region in the First Sandinista Revolution, 1926-1934," Dialectical Anthropology, 36, December (3-4), pp. 161-196. With commentaries by Jeffrey L. Gould and Wolfgang Gabbert, and my response.  Awarded the 2013 Davis Prize by the Middle Atlantic Council on Latin American Studies. 

2007.   "Social Memory and Tactical Doctrine: The Air War in Nicaragua during the Sandino Rebellion, 1927-1932," International History Review, 29 (3): 508-549.

2005.  "Bandits and Blanket Thieves, Communists and Terrorists: The Politics of Naming Sandinistas in Nicaragua, 1927-1936 and 1979-1990," Third World Quarterly, 26 (1): 67-86.

2003.  "Baptized in Blood: Children in the Sandino Rebellion in Nicaragua, 1926-1934."  James Marten, ed., Children and War.  Syracuse: Syracuse University Press.

2000.   "To Induce a Sense of Terror: Caudillo Politics and Political Violence in Northern Nicaragua, 1926-1934 and 1981-1995."  Arthur Brenner and Bruce Campbell, eds., Death Squads in Global Perspective: Murder with Deniability. New York: St. Martin's Press.

1998.  "The Sandino Rebellion Revisited: Civil War, Imperialism, Popular Nationalism, and State Formation Muddied Up Together in the Segovias of Nicaragua, 1926-1934." Gilbert Joseph, Catherine LeGrand and Ricardo Salvatore, eds., Close Encounters of Empire: Writing the Cultural History of U.S.- Latin American Relations. Durham: Duke University Press.

1996.  "Horse Thieves to Rebels to Dogs: Political Gang Violence and the State in the Western Segovias, Nicaragua, in the Time of Sandino, 1927-1934," Journal of Latin American Studies, 28: 383-434.  Awarded Honorable Mention for the 1997 Conference on Latin American History Prize (CLAH Prize).

Contributions to the online journal Revista de Temas Nicaragüenses  (www.temasnicas.net/)

2013. Mayo, No. 61: "Guerras de palabras: Hojas volantes y propaganda política de los marinos y la Guardia Nacional, el EDSN, los partidos Liberal y Conservador y otros (1927-1936)," pp. 16-19: www.temasnicas.net/rtn61.pdf

2013. Abril, No. 60:  "'Y también enséñenles a leer': Un archivo digital sobre la formación de la Guardia Nacional de Nicaragua, 1925-1979," www.temasnicas.net/rtn60.pdf

2013. Marzo, No. 59:  "De Cuatreros a Rebeldes a Perros:  Violencia de Pandillas Políticas y el Estado en Las Segovias Occidentales, Nicaragua, en los Tiempos de Sandino, 1926-1934," Parte 2: www.temasnicas.net/rtn59.pdf

2013. Febrero, No. 58:  "De Cuatreros a Rebeldes a Perros:  Violencia de Pandillas Políticas y el Estado en Las Segovias Occidentales, Nicaragua, en los Tiempos de Sandino, 1926-1934," Parte 1 (translation of "Horse Thieves," above): www.temasnicas.net/rtn58.pdf

2013. Enero, No. 57:  "Imposición de la Democracia por el Imperio Norteamerican Reflexiones Críticas sobre las Elecciones Nicaragüenses de Noviembre de 1928" (portada), pp. 4-14: www.temasnicas.net/rtn57.pdf

2012. Diciembre, No. 56:  "El 'Archivo Gordo Sobre la Situación de Sandino' Digitalizado, División de Inteligencia Militar, Estados Unidos, 1928-1933," pp. 83-85: www.temasnicas.net/rtn56.pdf

2012. Noviembre, No. 55:  "Archivo Digital de las Cartas y Telegramas a Enviado Especial Norteamericano Henry L. Stimson, Abril-Mayo de 1927," pp. 87-89: www.temasnicas.net/rtn55.pdf

2012. Octubre, No. 54:  "Un Archivo Digital de Mapas Históricos de Nicaragua," pp. 63-65: www.temasnicas.net/rtn54.pdf

2012. Septiembre, No. 53:  "Los Malditos Pájaros de Hierro:  La Guerra Aérea en Nicaragua durante la Rebelión de Sandino, 1927-1932," pp. 47-87 (translation of "Social Memory & Tactical Doctrine," above): www.temasnicas.net/rtn53.pdf

Select Book Reviews

• 2013.   H-Diplo Roundtable Review, Vol. XIV, No. 25 (2013), 25 March 2013.  Jason M. Colby, The Business of Empire: United Fruit, Race, and U.S. Expansion in Central America (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011).  http://www.h-net.org/~diplo/roundtables/PDF/Roundtable-XIV-25.pdf

• 2010.  Jorge Eduardo Arellano, Guerrillero de Nuestra América: Augusto C. Sandino (1895-1934). 2nd ed. Managua: HISPAMER, 2008, and Onofre Guevara López, Cien años de movimiento social en Nicaragua: relato cronológico. Managua: Instituto de Historia de Nicaragua y Centroamérica (IHNCA-UCA), 2008, in Mesoamérica 52, enero-dic.

• 2009.  Jeffrey L. Gould and Aldo A. Lauria-Santiago, To Rise in Darkness: Revolution, Repression, and Memory in El Salvador, 1920-1932 (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008), in A Contracorriente, 7 (1) Fall, pp. 367-376; available online here.

• 2007.  Michel Gobat, Confronting the American Dream: Nicaragua Under U.S. Imperial Rule (Durham: Duke University Press, 2005), in The Americas 63 (3) January, pp. 451-52.

• 2001.   Les W. Field, The Grimace of Macho Ratón: Artisans, Identity, and Nation in Late Twentieth-Century Western Nicaragua (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999), in Social History 26 (1) January, pp. 130-32.

• 1998. Darío A. Euraque, Reinterpreting the Banana Republic: Region and State in Honduras, 1870-1972 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996), in H-Net Reviews, Michigan State University (http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=14928887752532).

• 1996. Mike Wallace, Mickey Mouse History and Other Essays on American Memory (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996), in H-Net Reviews, Michigan State University (http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=18280865028819).