The Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies presents: John Tutino, Professor of History and International Affairs, Georgetown University: “Haiti, the Bajio, and the Revolutionary Fall of the First World Economy, 1750-1820”.
Georgetown historian John Tutino has been awarded this year’s Bolton-Johnson Book Prize for Making a New World: Founding Capitalism in the Bajío and Spanish North America (Duke University Press, 2011). Tutino, associate professor in the School of Foreign Service, received the honor during the Conference on Latin American History’s annual meeting Jan. 3-6 in New Orleans.
The prize is awarded each year for the best book published in English on the history of Latin America.
Tutino’s book examines the role of the Americas in early world trade and the conflicts reconfiguring global power. He analyzes the political economy, social relations and cultural conflicts of the central Mexico regions of Bajío and Spanish North America from 1500 to 1800. He also looks at the tensions that led to the area’s collapse into revolution in 1810.