The Persistence of ‘Dependency’ as a Useful Framework for Understanding Latin America

Thomas Holloway is Director of the Hemispheric Institute on the Americas and Professor of Latin American History at UC Davis. He is immediate past president of the Latin American Studies Association, and currently serves as Executive Secretary of the Conference on Latin American History. Professor Holloway’s main research field is the social history of Brazil in the National Period. His major works include Immigrants on the Land: Coffee and Society in São Paulo, 1886-1934 (Chapel Hill, 1980) and Policing Rio de Janeiro: Repression and Resistance in a 19th-Century City (Stanford, 1993).