Robert H. Holden

Recent essays in published collections:

"Interpreting the History of a Region in Crisis." In Holden, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Central American History, pp. 1-23.

"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.

“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.

“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, 2016.