Looking South: the evolution of Latin Americanist scholarship in the United States, 1850-1975
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Main Author: Delpar, Helen (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa University of Alabama Press ©2008
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Item Description:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-233) and index
Preface -- Beginnings -- Laying the foundations -- Early historians -- The rise of anthropology -- Geography and the other social sciences -- Latin Americanists and the world of policy making -- Maturity and institutionalization -- A decade of expansion, 1935-1945 -- Marking time, 1945-1958 -- The boom years, 1958-1975 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index
In the Preface to her new study, Latin Americanist Helen Delpar writes, "Since the seventeenth century, Americans have turned their gaze toward the lands to the south, seeing in them fields for religious proselytization, economic enterprise, and military conquest." Delpar, consequently, aims her considerable gaze back at those Americans and the story behind their longtime fascination with Latin American culture. By visiting seminal works and the cultures from which they emerged, following the effects of changes in scholarly norms and political developments on the training of students
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 241 pages)
ISBN:0817380124
9780817380120

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