缅北禁地

Background

Dpl., Dr. phil., Habilitation, FRHistS

1. Diploma (eq.5-year MA degree) in LA Studies/History ('Distinction')

2. Dr. phil. in Latin American History ('summa cum laude')

3. Habilitation (eq. Livre-Docência/Doctorat d'Etat) in Pol. Science

Jens R Hentschke was born in Germany but has lived in the United Kingdom (Oxford, Southampton, and 缅北禁地) for over 30 years. He holds both German and UK citizenship. Jens Hentschke has repeatedly attracted long-term funding for his research (Volkswagen Foundation, German Research Foundation, AHRC) and worked, for longer periods, in archives and libraries in Latin America, the U.S., and Eastern and Western Europe. From 1996 to 2004, he was an External Reader (Privatdozent) in Political Science at Heidelberg University, where he obtained his Habilitation, and he was also a junior exchange scholar at Brown University in Providence, Volkswagen Area Studies Visiting Fellow at St Antony's College Oxford, Visiting Professor at PUCRS in Porto Alegre, and Fellow of the Ibero-American Institute in Berlin.

Honours and Awards

Research recognition: Election to a Fellowship of the Royal Historical Society in 1998

Education at 缅北禁地: Student nominations for the University's Teaching Excellence Award in 2013 (category 'Innovative Teaching Method of the Year') and for The Education Award in 2023 and 2024 (category 'Outstanding Contribution to Teaching')

Roles and Responsibilities

1. Member of University Senate (most recently 2021-2024)

2. Deputy Head of School (2012-2025)

3. Director for Postgraduate Research (2015-2025)

4. Performance Development Reviewer (PDR)

Membership in Subject Association and Centres

1. United Kingdom Latin American Historians Network UKLAH

2. 缅北禁地-Durham Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies (CNCS), U.K.

3. Conference on Latin American History (CLAH), U.S.

4. Society for Latin American Studies, U.K.

5. Asociación de Historiadores Latinoamericanistas Europeos (AHILA)

6. American Historical Association (AHA), U.S., 1991-2025

7. Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutsche Lateinamerika-Forschung (ADLAF), Germany, 1991-2023

8. Latin American Studies Association U,S., intermittent membership

Languages

German (native language), English, Portuguese, and Spanish.

Basic reading skills in Russian (once high-level proficiency) and French (3rd language in school).

Research Interests

1. History and Politics of Latin America, especially Brazil, Southern Cone, and Colombia from the late 18th to the 20th cc.

2. History of Ideas in Latin America and beyond, especially the impact of liberalism, positivism, Krausism, socialism, and (neo-) populism on state and nation-building.

3. History of Education in Latin America/social policy analysis

Long-time Research Agenda

After years of heavy administrative commitments, Jens R Hentschke is currently working on a third monograph in a trilogy that focuses on reforms of primary and normal schooling (primary school teacher training) as attempts at belated cultural nation-(re-)building in Latin America, but each book applies a fundamentally different perspective.

1) The first, titled Reconstructing the Brazilian Nation: Public Schooling in the Vargas Era, 1839-1964 (Nomos 2006, 518pp) focuses on the various Vargas regime's infrastructural power, i.e., their (limited) ability to implement education reforms from the central to the regional, local, and individual school levels in two key federal states and seven socio-economically and ethnically different municipalities (Rio de Janeiro: Nova Friburgo, Vassouras, Cantagalo, Campos de Goytacazes; Rio Grande do Sul: Sao Leopoldo, Caxias do Sul, Bage). The author argues that Vargas's self-styled 'authoritarian/social/organic democracy' may have been marked by magnificent visions, impressive efforts to increase the cognitive capacity of the public administration, and far-reaching social legislation, but the reforms were characterized by a technocratic modernization philosophy, a dualist concept of education, political indoctrination, and the aim of of cultural and ethnic homogenization. Such a policy left little room for genuine inter-governmental cooperation, had no ear for critical educators and inspectors, and by-passed teachers. Real progress was possible but it resulted from remarkable grassroots initiatives, rather than a strong national state. The population explosion and populist campaigns of the post-war period further undermined Vargas era public policies (review: https://www.jstor.org/stable/41676834).

• This monograph builds upon Hentschke's earlier book-length studies on the genesis and consolidation of the authoritarian-corporatist Brazilian Estado Novo (1937-45) in the context of the Great Depression, published by VfE in 1996, and on populism in a cross-national perspective (CeLA, 1998), and led to the monograph Positivism gaucho-Style (VWF, 2004) and edited volume Vargas and Brazil (Palgrave, 2006).

2) The second monograph, Philosophical Polemics, School Reform, and Nation-Building in Uruguay, 1868-1915: Reforma Vareliana and Batllismo from a Transnational Perspective (Nomos 2016, 453 pp) is a transnational history that explores how Uruguay, during two political generations aiming at erasing frontier backwardness through education, acted as a crossroads of intellectuals and a laboratory for contestation, assimilation, and merger of global and autochthonous political and pedagogical philosophies on what historians have called South America's 'Corridor of Ideas' from Santiago de Chile through Buenos Aires and Montevideo to Porto Alegre, Brazil. Education was key in the (re-) construction of the Uruguayan nation, which began with the 'Reforma Vareliana' in the 1870s, driven by US liberal pedagogy and Spencerian positivism, and led to the formation of Latin America's first welfare state democracy under President Batlle and his Krauso-positivist supporters (1903-07, 1911-15). Review by Ana Frega in Hispanic American Historical Review, 99:1 (2019), 170-172: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-728824.

• Hentschke then focused on two spin-offs from this monograph: first, a study on Spanish regeneracionista, Pan-Hispanist, and Krauso-Positivist Adolfo González Posada and his influence in the River Plate region, published in Historical Research (OUP), and, secondly, on the interactions between Uruguay's Reforma Vareliana and the coinciding Belgian education reform and Kulturkampf ('first guerre scolaire' in 1879-84), published in Historia (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile). The latter, closely observed by reformers in Latin America, showed that an aggressive pursuit of secularization (laicism, instead of laity) could undermine modernization and nation-building. This study on the global impact of Europe's 'culture wars' provided a springboard to the third monograph on Colombia's 'Regeneration', which was accompanied by a Romanization of the Catholic Church after the First Vatican Council.

3) The new big monograph project, provisionally titled Liberty, Order, and Progress: The Role of Public Schooling in Colombia, 1863-1892, revisits Colombia's conflictive establishment of a public school system by Radical Liberal governments during the 1870s that acted as a catalyst of civil war and a transformation of the political system, the so-called post-1880 'Regeneration'. Cornerstones on the timescale will be the adoption of the Rionegro Constitution in 1863, cementing the Radicals' takeover of power and allowing them to implement their civic education programme, and the initiation of the Plan Zerda in 1892, which regulated education in consonance with the regeneradores' 1886 Constitution and 1887 Concordat with the Holy See. This polity change is usually represented as a radical rupture, moving Colombia from laissez-faire economics to state interventionism and protectionism; ultra-federalism to rigid centralism; from a representative democracy to an authoritarian regime; from a State that respected religious freedom to an almost theocratic polity; and, crucially, from governments that focused on building a nation-wide system of public instruction and thereby generated a progressive and egalitarian political culture to a regime that granted the Roman Church complete control over all aspects of education and the civil state of individuals. These interpretations essentially follow Colombian Liberals' retrospective in a still deeply divided country. Radicals are usually portrayed as progressive and regeneradores as traditional or reactionary. This, the book will substantiate, can make us overlook continuities in change: varying factions of the Liberal and Conservative Parties and of Rome's Church alternated between periods of simple coexistence, hesitant collaboration, and open conflict. This also applies to the construction of a public school system and the political, intellectual, and constitutional debates that accompanied this process.

• A spin-off from this book will be a small monograph on the still under-researched German Pedagogical Mission (1872-78).

Research Roles in the School

1. Member of the School Research Committee

2. Chair of Postgraduate Progress Review Panels

3. Research Mentor

4. Personal Research Plan Reviewer

5. REF Preparation Group member/Internal Quality Reviewer

Postgraduate Supervision

Jens R Hentschke is willing to supervise Masters and Ph.D. theses in HISTORY: late 18th to late 20th cc. political, social, and intellectual history of Latin America, especially Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, and Colombia, with foci on state formation and reconstruction, nation-building, regional politics, education reform, positivism(s), Krausism, and populism. A good reading knowledge of Portuguese and Spanish is essential but can be acquired while at university.

Esteem Indicators

Professor Hentschke served on the Executive Committee of the British Society for Latin American Studies for 13 years, including as Vice-President (2013-15), President (2015-17) and Past President (2017-19); as Chair of the Standing Conference of Centres of Latin American Studies in the UK (2017-19); and as member of the international Scientific Advisory Board of the Ibero-American Institute Prussian Cultural Heritage in Berlin (2015-22). He was External Examiner of the Masters by Research programme at the Institute for Latin American Studies in London (2018-22), which he had previously reviewed; an Associate Fellow of the Institute of the Americas at UCL (2012-18); and an external reviewer of PhD vivas and confirmations of status at British and foreign universities (UCL, Kings College, St Andrews, Oxford, PUCRS). Prof. Hentschke belonged, for a constitutional maximum of six years, to the Arts and Humanities Research Council's Peer Review College and served on several of its panels and as Strategic Reviewer. The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research invited him to be part of a panel that reviewed the German government's 50 million Euro programme to strengthen Area Studies (2009-15). He has also acted as a peer reviewer for the British Academy, Economic and Social Research Council, The Leverhulme Trust, the National University of Ireland Studentship Board, the Austrian Science Fund, and the international Review Board of the Chilean National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICYT); an assessor of professorial candidates; and a reader of manuscripts for many publishers and journals in Europe and the Americas. Professor Hentschke was part of the Editorial Council of the History programme of Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul Press, and continues to be on the editorial councils of the journals Estudos Ibero-Americanos at PUCRS and Anos 90 at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre, the International Editorial Council of Múltipla at UPIS in Brasília, the Scientific Committee of @rquivo Brasileiro de Educação at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais, the Advisory Council of Locus: Revista de Historia at the Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, and the Editorial Committee of Páginas de Educación at the Universidad Católica del Uruguay. He has been invited to present papers at international conferences, expert symposia, and round tables in Brazil, Germany, and the U.S. and has been repeatedly interviewed on historical and political events in Latin America by leading Brazilian broadsheet papers, BBC History, Deutsche Welle, and Reuters. His publications are recommended for further reading in encyclopedia (Lexikon der Politik, Beck, Germany/Diccionario de Ciencia Política, Porruas, Mexico), constitute required course literature at European and North American universities, and some have been translated into Portuguese and Spanish. Following an invitation by the Styrian Pedagogical Faculty and Association of Historians, he also conducted a two-day seminar for secondary school (head) teachers in Graz, Austria. 

Funding

(only listing of large and research-related grants)

1. Volkswagen Foundation Area Studies Fellowship for research at St Antony's College, Oxford, 1993-5, all incl. ca. £ 30,000

2. Research Grant of Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Bonn, for field work in Germany, Britain, Brazil, and the U.S., 1996-8, ca. DM 100,000

3. Arts and Humanities Research Board Leave Award, 2001, cov. 4 months of annual salary                                

4. Arts and Humanities Research Council Fellowship, 2011-12, cov. 9 months of annual salary

Current Undergraduate Teaching

SPA1019 Introduction to the History, Culture, and Society of the Iberian Peninsula (Comparative History and Politics of Spain and Portugal in the first semester)

LAS2030 Comparative History of Hispano-America and Brazil from Independence to the Mexican Revolution, 1789/1810-1910/17

LAS4001 Inter-American Relations from the Spanish-American War to the End of the Cold War, 1898-1989/91

SML4099 Dissertation in Spanish/Portuguese/Latin American Studies (History and Politics topics)

Previous Teaching Experience

缅北禁地 PG: MA in Latin American Interdisciplinary Studies

• (team-taught) The Shaping of Latin America I: Social and Political Themes
• (team-taught) The Shaping of Latin America II: Arts and Humanities
• (team-taught) Thinking Latin America
• (team-taught) Research Methods
• (tutorial-based) Country Studies
• (tutorial-based) Themed Reading
• (solely taught) Intellectual and Political Thought in Brazil Since Independence
• Dissertation

UK UG:

• (team-taught) Transition to Industrial Society
• (team-taught) Introduction to Latin America (Stage 1)
• From Franco and Salazar to Liberal Democracy: Spain and Portugal in Comparison (Stage 2)
• Extended Study in Cultures of the Lusophone World (Stage 4)
• (team-taught) Introduction to the Hispanic World (Stage 1)
• (contribution to team-taught) Modern Japan (Stage 2)

Heidelberg: Upper-Level MA Students in Political Science (all solely taught)

• US Foreign Policy Towards Latin America in the Twentieth Century
• Political Thought in Latin America Since Independence: Internal Roots and External Influences
• State Corporatism and Re-Democratisation: Spain, Portugal, and Latin America in Comparison
• US World Policy and Inter-American Relations: Legacies and New Challenges After the End of the Cold War
• Populism and Neo-Populism: Europe, the US, and Latin America in Comparison
• The Great Depression and the Long-Term Transformation of Political Systems: Canada, the U.S., and Latin America in Comparison
• State- and Nation-Building in the Americas: Normative Ideas, Processes, and Impact in Comparative Perspective

Germany UG:

• (team-taught) National and Social Movements in Asia, Africa, and Latin America
• (team-taught) Colonial and National History of Latin America
• (solely taught) National History and Political System of the United States of America
• (solely taught) National History of Brazil from Cabral to Collor de Mello

• Articles

  • Hentschke JR. . Historia 2023, 56(1), 255-290.
  • Hentschke JR. . Locus: Revista de História 2021, 27(2), 245-287.
  • Hentschke JR. . Hablemos de Historia: Cuestiones Teóricas y Metodológicas de la Historia 2020, (10), 38-65.
  • Hentschke JR. . Historical Research 2020, 93(259), 105-130.
  • Hentschke J. . Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies 2013, 19(1), 1-30.
  • Hentschke JR. . Intellectual History Review 2012, 22(2), 241-260.
  • Hentschke J. . Journal of Latin American Studies 2012, 44(4), 733-764.
  • Hentschke JR. . Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies 2011, 17(1), 1-31.
  • Hentschke JR. . Justiça & História 2004, 4(7), 211-258.
  • Hentschke JR. . Impulso. Revista de Ciências Sociais e Humanas 2002, 13(31), 165-173.
  • Hentschke JR. . Ibero-Amerikanisches Archiv 1999, 25(3-4), 239-267.
  • Hentschke JR. . Brasilkunde/Estudos Brasileiros: Staden-Jahrbuch/Anuário Hanns Staden, Fundação Martius São Paulo 1996, 43/44, 15-30.
  • Hentschke JR. . Asien, Afrika, Lateinamerika 1994, 21(1), 119-134.
  • Hentschke JR. . Asien, Afrika, Lateinamerika 1993, 20(6), 994-1014.
  • Hentschke JR. . Berliner Debatte Initial: Zeitschrift für sozialwissenschaftlichen Diskurs 1992, 1(6), 75-78.
  • Hentschke JR. . Reflecciones 1991, 2(2), 72-77.
  • Hentschke JR. . Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft 1990, 38(12), 1081-1087.
  • Hentschke JR. . Asien, Afrika, Lateinamerika 1990, 18(2), 332-342.
  • Hentschke JR. . Lateinamerika 1989, 24(1), 137-144.
  • Hentschke JR. . Asien, Afrika, Lateinamerika 1988, 16(2), 327-338.
  • Hentschke JR. . Lateinamerika 1988, 23(1), 9-29.

• Authored Books

  • Hentschke JR. The German Pedagogical Mission to Colombia, 1872-78. 2028. In Preparation.
  • Hentschke JR. Liberty, Order, and Progress: The Role of Public Schooling in Colombia, 1863-1892. 2028. In Preparation.
  • Hentschke JR. . Porto Alegre: Ed. da Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, 2016.
  • Hentschke JR. . Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2016.
  • Hentschke JR. . Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2007.
  • Hentschke JR. . Berlin: Verlag für Wissenschaft und Forschung, 2004.
  • Hentschke JR. . Münster: CeLA/University of Münster, 1998.
  • Hentschke JR. . Saarbrücken: Verlag für Entwicklungspolitik Saarbrücken, 1996.

• Book Chapters

  • Hentschke JR. . In: Sören Brinkmann, Leite para os Trópicos! Consumo, produção e políticas públicas no Brasil, 1889-1964. Rio de Janeiro: Editora FIOCRUZ, 2023, pp.9-12.
  • Hentschke JR. . In: Guilherme Celestino, The Influence of José da Silva Lisboa’s Journalism on the Independence of Brazil (1821-1822). London and New York: Anthem Press, 2022, pp.vi-ix.
  • Hentschke JR. . In: João Paulo Avelãs Nunes, Luciano Aronne de Abreu, Miliandre Garcia de Souza, Tatyana de Amaral Maia, ed. A Independência e o Brasil Independente. Porto Alegre: EdiPUCRS, 2022, pp.199-238.
  • Hentschke JR. . In: Sonia Scaffo, Ana Ribeiro, Dora Borges, ed. José Pedro Varela y la Sociedad de Amigos de la Educación Popular: Una década fecunda 1868-1879. Montevideo: SAEP, 2018, pp.33-60.
  • Hentschke JR. . In: Michael Derham, A Study of Immigration from Spain to Venezuela, 1948-1998. Lewiston Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, 2015, pp.i-iv.
  • Hentschke JR. . In: Werz N, ed. Populisten, Revolutionäre, Staatsmänner: Politiker in Lateinamerika. Frankfurt am Main: Vervuert, 2009, pp.216-237.
  • Hentschke JR. . In: Mohr, A., Nohlen, D, ed. Politikwissenschaft in Heidelberg: 50 Jahre Institut für Politische Wissenschaft. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2008, pp.365-367.
  • Hentschke JR. . In: Hentschke, JR, ed. Vargas and Brazil: New Perspectives. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, pp.1-29.
  • Hentschke JR. . In: Nitschack, H, ed. Brasilien im amerikanischen Kontext: Vom Kaiserreich zur Republik: Kultur, Gesellschaft und Politik. Frankfurt am Main: Teo Ferrer de Mesquita, 2005, pp.45-72.
  • Hentschke JR. . In: Nohlen, D; Sangmeister, H, ed. Macht, Markt, Meinungen : Demokratie, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft in Lateinamerika. Wiesbaden: Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2004, pp.49-74.
  • Hentschke JR. . In: Nascimento, A, ed. Brasil: Perspectivas internacionais. Piracicaba: Universidade Metodista, 2002, pp.273-307.
  • Hentschke JR. . In: Brancato, SML; Menezes, AMM; Kothe, MG, ed. Simpósio Internacional. Estados Americanos: Relações continentais e intercontinentais - 500 anos de história. Porto Alegre: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, 2000, pp.159-169.
  • Hentschke JR. . In: Eschenburg, R; Heineberg, H; Pfister, U; Strosetzky, C, ed. Lateinamerika: Gesellschaft-Raum-Kooperation. Festschrift für Achim Schrader zum 65. Geburtstag. Frankfurt am Main: Vervuert, 1999, pp.155-173.
  • Hentschke JR. . In: Zoller, R, ed. Amerikaner wider Willen: Beiträge zur Sklaverei in Lateinamerika und ihren Folgen. Frankfurt am Main: Vervuert, 1994, pp.236-265.
  • Hentschke JR. . In: Schelsky, D; Zoller, R, ed. Brasilien: Die Unordnung des Fortschritts. Frankfurt am Main: Vervuert, 1994, pp.83-126.
  • Hentschke JR. . In: Binder, W, ed. Slavery in the Americas. Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann, 1993, pp.115-130.
  • Hentschke JR. . In: Reinhard, W; Waldmann, P, ed. Nord und Süd in Amerika: Gemeinsamkeiten, Gegensätze, europäischer Hintergrund. Freiburg im Breisgau: Rombach, 1992, pp.851-861.
  • Hentschke JR. Iluminismo y Gran Revolucion Francesa en la Independencia del Brasil. In: Thiemer-Sachse, U; Pade, W; Strauch, W, ed. América Latina en el pasado, presente y futuro. 1492-1992. Rostock: Instituto Latinoamericano/University of Rostock, 1991.
  • Hentschke JR. . In: Kossok, M; Vilaboy, SG, ed. Historia del ciclo de revoluciones de España y América Latina. La Habana: Universidad de La Habana, 1990, pp.107-111.
  • Hentschke JR. . In: Kossok, M; Vilaboy, SG, ed. Historia del ciclo de las revoluciones de España y América Latina. La Habana: Universidad de La Habana, 1990, pp.41-45.
  • Hentschke JR. . In: Hentschke, JR, ed. Da monarquia escravocrata a república paulista. Brasil 1889. Rostock: University of Rostock: Instituto Latinoamericano, 1990, pp.45-49.
  • Hentschke JR. . In: Hentschke, JR, ed. Da monarquia escravocrata a república paulista. Brasil 1889. Rostock: University of Rostock: Instituto Latinoamericano, 1990, pp.13-25.
  • Hentschke JR. . In: Kossok, M, ed. Leipziger Beiträge zur Revolutionsforschung. Karl-Marx-Universitat Leipzig: Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Vergleichende Revolutionsforschung, 1986, pp.64-77.

• Edited Books

  • Hentschke JR, ed. . New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
  • Hentschke JR, ed. . Rostock: University of Rostock: Latin American Institute, 1990.

• Reviews

  • Hentschke JR. Ximena Espeche. La paradoja uruguaya: intelectuales, latinoamericanistas y nación a mediados del siglo XX. Quilmes: Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, 2016. Hispanic American Historical Review 2020, 100(2), 366-368.
  • Hentschke JR. . Bulletin of Latin American Research 2015, 34(3), 410-411.
  • Hentschke JR. Ursula Prutsch. Creating Good Neighbors? Die Kultur- und Wirtschaftspolitik der USA in Lateinamerika, 1940-1946. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2008. Iberoamericana 2009, 9(36), 264-266.
  • Hentschke JR. Dieter Nohlen (in collaboration with Rainer-Olaf Schultze and 161 academics). Diccionario de ciencia política: teorías, métodos, conceptos. México and Veracruz: Ed. Porrúa, 2006, 2 vols. Journal of Latin American Studies 2007, 39(3), 684-685.
  • Hentschke JR. Joseph Smith. The United States and Latin America: A History of American Diplomacy, 1776-2000. London: Routledge, 2005. History: The Journal of the Historical Association 2006, 91(4), 609-610.
  • Hentschke JR. Jerry Dávila. Diploma of Whiteness: Race and Social Policy in Brazil. Durham, SC, and London: Duke University Press, 2003. Bulletin of Spanish Studies 2005, 82(3), 408-409.
  • Hentschke JR. Colin McLachlan. A History of Modern Brazil: The Past Against the Future. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 2005. Journal of Latin American Studies 2005, 37(4), 819-821.
  • Hentschke JR. Roderick S. Barman. Citizen Emperor: Pedro II and the Making of Brazil, 1825-91. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. Bulletin of Latin American Research 2001, 20(4), 530-533.
  • Hentschke JR. Stephen Bell. Campanha gaúcha: A Brazilian Ranching System, 1850-1920. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. Bulletin of Latin American Research 2000, 19(1), 109-112.
  • Hentschke JR. Irwin P. Stotzky. Silencing the Guns in Haiti: The Promise of Deliberative Democracy. Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 1997. Notas: ReseÑas iberoamericanas. Literatura, sociedad, historia 2000, 7(1), 205-208.
  • Hentschke JR. Michaela Hellmann (ed.). Ohne uns keine Demokratie - sem gente nao tem jeito: Soziale Bewegungen und die Auseinandersetzungen um die Demokratie in Brasilien. Unkel am Rhein: Horlemann, 1995. Notas: ReseÑas iberoamericanas. Literatura, sociedad, historia 1997, 4(1), 187-189.
  • Hentschke JR. Michaela Hellmann (ed.). Ohne uns keine Demokratie - sem gente nao tem jeito: Soziale Bewegungen und die Auseinandersetzungen um die Demokratie in Brasilen. Unkel am Rhein: Horlemann, 1995. Tópicos 1996, (4), 56.
  • Hentschke JR. Thomas H. Holloway. Policing Rio de Janeiro: Repression and Resistance in a 19th-Century City. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993. Bulletin of Latin American Research 1995, 14(1), 80-81. In Preparation.
  • Hentschke JR. Stefan A. Schirm. Brasilien: Regionalmacht zwischen Autonomie und Dependenz. Aussenpolitik, Wirtschaft und Sicherheit im internationalen und lateinamerikanischen Kontext (1979-1988. Hamburg: Lit-Verlag, 1990. Asien, Afrika, Lateinamerika 1994, 21(4), 665-667.
  • Hentschke JR. José Cordeiro. Indianer in Ceará: 400 Jahre Massaker und Widerstand. Mettingen: Brasilienkunde-Verlag, 1991. Asien, Afrika, Lateinamerika 1994, 22(1), 113-115.
  • Hentschke JR. Jochen Hippler. Die neue Weltordnung. Hamburg: Institut für Internationale Politik, 1991. Asien, Afrika, Lateinamerika 1993, 20(5), 957-993.
  • Hentschke JR. Ernst-Otto Czempiel. Weltpolitik im Umbruch: Das internationale System nach dem Ende des Ost-West Konflikts. Munich: C. H. Beck, 1991. Asien, Afrika, Lateinamerika 1993, 20(1), 183-210.
  • Hentschke JR. Andreas Boueke. Betr. Amerika: Ein Kontinent von unten gesehen. Unkel am Rhein and Bad Honnef: Horlemann, 1992. Asien, Afrika, Lateinamerika 1993, 21(2), 316-317.
  • Hentschke JR. Johannes Poegl. Die reiche Fracht des Pedro Álvares Cabral: Seine indische Fahrt und die Entdeckung Brasiliens. Stuttgart: Erdmann Thienemann, 1990. Renaissance-Hefte 1992, 1(4), 102-103.
  • Hentschke JR. Siegfried Pater. Das grüne Gewissen Brasiliens: José Lutzenberger. Goettingen: Lamuv-Verlag, 1989. Asien, Afrika, Lateinamerika 1991, 19(6), 1166-1168.
  • Hentschke JR. Chico Mendes. Rettet den Regenwald! Goettingen: Lamuv-Verlag, 1990. Asien, Afrika, Lateinamerika 1991, 19(4), 773-774.
  • Hentschke JR. Johannes Poegl (ed.). Die reiche Fracht des Pedro Álvares Cabral: Seine indische Fahrt und die Entdeckung Brasiliens. Stuttgart: Erdmann Thienemann, 1986. Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft 1990, 38(4), 373.
  • Hentschke JR. Ana Maria Barros Santos. Die Sklaverei in Brasilien und ihre sozialen und wirtschaftlichen Folgen, dargestellt am Beispiel Pernambuco (1840-1889). Munich: W. Fink, 1985. Lateinamerika 1990, 25(1), 114-117.
  • Hentschke JR. Maximilian Graf zu Wied-Neuwied. Reise nach Brasilien in den Jahren 1815-1817. Leipzig: Brockhaus, 1987. Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft 1989, 37(7), 645-646.
  • Hentschke JR. E. Bradford Burns. At War in Nicaragua: The Reagan Doctrine and the Politics of Nostalgia. New York: Harper and Row, 1987. Asien, Afrika, Lateinamerika 1989, 17(6), 1143-1145.
  • Hentschke JR. Maria da Guia Santos. Aussenhandel und industrielle Entwicklung Brasiliens unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Beziehungen zu Deutschland (1889-1914). Munich: W. Fink, 1984. Asien, Afrika, Lateinamerika 1988, 16(2), 380-382.
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