Robert H. Holden
Professor of Latin American History
Old Dominion University
rholden@odu.edu
757 683 3941
Department of History
Batten Art & Letters Building, 8034
Norfolk VA 23529-0091
For his students
All course material is posted on Canvas
Navigating university life
Scholarly Resources
Perry Library, selected list of quick reference sources
Perry Library, selected Latin American primary source holdings
PALABRA Archive at the Library of Congress, contains nearly eight-hundred recordings of poets and prose writers participating in sessions at the Library’s Recording Laboratory and at other locations around Spain and Latin America
Timeline to accompany Ernst Breisach, Historiography: Ancient, Medieval and Modern (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007), 3d. ed.
Dollar values of U.S. military transfers to Latin America, 1950-1990
Selected publications
Editor, The Oxford Handbook of Central American History (New York: Oxford University Press), June 2022. Online version.
"Interpreting the History of a Region in Crisis." In Holden, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Central American History, pp. 1-23. Online here or readable on Amazon.
"After the Deluge: Central American Historiography at Low Tide." Latin American Research Review 55 (September 2020) 3, pp. 574–585. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25222/larr.1003
“Violence, the State and Revolution in Latin America,” in The Cambridge World History of Violence, v. 4, "1800 to the Present," pp. 490-509, eds. Louise Edwards, Nigel Penn and Jay Winter. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
“Beyond Mere War: Authority and Legitimacy in the Formation of the Latin American States.” In L. B. Kaspersen & Jeppe Strandsbjerg (eds.), Does War Make States? Investigations of Charles Tilly’s Historical Sociology. Cambridge University Press, 2017.
"Borderlands and Public Violence in a Shadow Polity: Costa Ricans, Nicaraguans and the Legacy of the Central American Federation,” in Sebastian Huhn and Hannes Warnecke (eds.), Politics and History of Violence and Crime in Central America. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Contemporary Latin America: 1970 to the Present, with Rina Villars. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
"La Iglesia y la independencia del Reino de Guatemala," in Josep-Ignasi Saranyana and Juan Bosco Amores Carredano (eds.), Política y religión en la independencia de la América hispana. Madrid: BAC, 2011.
Second edition of Holden & Zolov, Latin America and the United States: A Documentary History. Oxford University Press, 2010.
“De la mujer invisible al feminismo ineludible: Política y antropología en la historiografía de la mujer,” Memoria y Civilización (9) 2006: 109-138.
“What Is Your Anthropology? What Are Your Ethics?” Historically Speaking (bulletin of The Historical Society), 6 (March/April 2005) 4:35 -37.
Armies Without Nations: Public Violence and State Formation in Central America, 1821-1960. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
“Securing Central America Against Communism: The United States and the Modernization of Surveillance in the Cold War.” Journal of Interamerican Studies & World Affairs 41 (Spring 1999) 1: 1-30.
"Constructing the Limits of State Violence in Central America: Toward a New Research Agenda." Journal of Latin American Studies 28 (May 1996) 2:435-459.
Mexico and the Survey of the Public Lands: The Management of Modernization, 1876-1911. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1994.