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The article analyses Professor Josep-Ignasi Saranyana's written output dealing with American theology, his books as well as his articles. It focuses on the most important themes addressed in these texts, and their contribution to the study of theology and American history. The article also outlines some particulars of Professor Saranyana's personal history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the vexed relationship between studies of gender and sexuality, especially as they relate to masculinity, and the growing field of world history. These bodies of scholarship have largely remained separate, even antagonistic, despite shared thematic concerns with transnational flows. Overall, world historians privilege political economy and global connections, while historians of gender and sexuality concern themselves with the cultural production of difference in specific locales. The case of U.S.-based Latin American studies offers ways of thinking across the culture versus economy divide; above all, it suggests that world history can usefully be narrated as a story of masculinities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Explores the narrative problems in the integration of Latin America in world history courses and textbooks. Issues which affect the interest of the proponents of world history; Characteristics of world history in courses and textbooks; Views of historians on European themes; Factors which lead to the deficit in Latin American history in the context of world history.