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New Approaches to Latin American History

Author : Richard Graham,Peter H. Smith
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781477300862

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New Approaches to Latin American History by Richard Graham,Peter H. Smith Pdf

New Approaches to Latin American History incorporates methods and concepts from the social sciences without abandoning a distinctively historical approach. A collection of original essays by distinguished younger scholars, it proposes original concepts and methods for analyzing crucial problems in Latin American history. Using as examples such subjects as salvery, dictatorship, immigration, and the relationship between land ownership and political power, the contributors show how approaches and techniques from psychology, political science, economics. and sociology can be applied to historical studies. The papers attempt to explain the thematic and substantive importance of the particular problems at hand; describe and evaluate standard approaches to them; propose original hypotheses; suggest methods for testing the hypotheses; or indicate major methodological or conceptual difficulties that have so far hampered such work. Despite their diversity of content, the papers show strong underlying unities. First, they all point to the need for placing institutions and actions in a broad societal context. The authurs present an implicit, cumulative argument against the excessive isolation of historical phenomena. Second, they demonstrate the utility of interdisciplinary research. Third, they issue an implicit call for rigorous comparative analysis. The propositions formulated in these essays can best tested and modified in comparative fashion. Ultimately this book deals with the exposition of a research style: a style based on systematic doubt, an awareness of the need for conceptual rigor, and a willingness to try new methodologies. For this reason it is of interest to historians in every field as well as to students of Latin America.

New Approaches to Latin American Studies

Author : Juan Poblete
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351656344

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New Approaches to Latin American Studies by Juan Poblete Pdf

Academic and research fields are moved by fads, waves, revolutionaries, paradigm shifts, and turns. They all imply a certain degree of change that alters the conditions of a stable system, producing an imbalance that needs to be addressed by the field itself. New Approaches to Latin American Studies: Culture and Power offers researchers and students from different theoretical fields an essential, turn-organized overview of the radical transformation of epistemological and methodological assumptions in Latin American Studies from the end of the 1980s to the present. Sixteen chapters written by experts in their respective fields help explain the various ways in which to think about these shifts. Questions posited include: Why are turns so crucial? How did they alter the shape or direction of the field? What new questions, objects, or problems did they contribute? What were or are their limitations? What did they displace or prevent us from considering? Among the turns included are: memory, transnational, popular culture, decolonial, feminism, affect, indigenous studies, transatlantic, ethical, post/hegemony, deconstruction, cultural policy, subalternism, gender and sexuality, performance, and cultural studies.

A New History of Modern Latin America

Author : Lawrence A. Clayton,Michael L. Conniff,Susan M. Gauss
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520289024

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A New History of Modern Latin America by Lawrence A. Clayton,Michael L. Conniff,Susan M. Gauss Pdf

"Revised and expanded third edition"--Cover.

Goods, Power, History

Author : Arnold J. Bauer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2001-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 052177702X

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Goods, Power, History by Arnold J. Bauer Pdf

Explores the history of material culture and consumption in Latin America over the past 500 years.

Medicine and Public Health in Latin America

Author : Marcos Cueto,Steven Paul Palmer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107023673

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Medicine and Public Health in Latin America by Marcos Cueto,Steven Paul Palmer Pdf

This book provides a clear, broad, and provocative synthesis of the history of Latin American medicine.

The Women of Colonial Latin America

Author : Susan Migden Socolow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521196659

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The Women of Colonial Latin America by Susan Migden Socolow Pdf

A highly readable survey of women's experiences in Latin America from the late fifteenth to the early nineteenth centuries.

Critical Latin American and Latino Studies

Author : Juan Poblete
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816640793

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Critical Latin American and Latino Studies by Juan Poblete Pdf

This book brings together some of the most prominent scholars working across the spectrum of Latin American and Latino studies to explore their changing intellectual undertaking in relation to global processes of change. Critical Latin American and Latino Studies identifies the challenges and possibilities of more politically engaged and theoretically critical modes of scholarly practice. One objective is to provide a brief critical history of the study of various Latin American cultures -- Latino, Chicano, Puerto Rican, among others. But these essays also serve to assess the roles of ethnic and area studies in light of changing scholarly trends, from emphases on gender and sexuality to a focus on postcoloniality and globalization. The result is an important contribution to current debates on the conditions of contemporary knowledge production. Book jacket.

Reclaiming the Political in Latin American History

Author : Gilbert M. Joseph
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2001-12-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822383260

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Reclaiming the Political in Latin American History by Gilbert M. Joseph Pdf

Reclaiming the Political in Latin American History is a collection that embraces a new social and cultural history of Latin America that is not divorced from politics and other arenas of power. True to the intellectual vision of Brazilian historian Emilia Viotti da Costa, one of Latin America’s most distinguished scholars, the contributors actively revisit the political—as both a theme of historical analysis and a stance for historical practice—to investigate the ways in which power, agency, and Latin American identity have been transformed over the past few decades. Taking careful stock of the state of historical writing on Latin America, the volume delineates current historiographical frontiers and suggests a series of new approaches that focus on several pivotal themes: the construction of historical narratives and memory; the articulation of class, race, gender, sexuality, and generation; and the historian’s involvement in the making of history. Although the book represents a view of the Latin American political that comes primarily from the North, the influence of Viotti da Costa powerfully marks the contributors’ engagement with Latin America’s past. Featuring a keynote essay by Viotti da Costa herself, the volume’s lively North-South encounter embodies incipient trends of hemispheric intellectual convergence. Contributors. Jeffrey L. Gould, Greg Grandin, Daniel James, Gilbert M. Joseph, Thomas Miller Klubock, Mary Ann Mahony, Florencia E. Mallon, Diana Paton, Steve J. Stern, Heidi Tinsman, Emilia Viotti da Costa, Barbara Weinstein

Decolonizing Indigeneity

Author : Thomas Ward
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498535199

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Decolonizing Indigeneity by Thomas Ward Pdf

While there are differences between cultures in different places and times, colonial representations of indigenous peoples generally suggest they are not capable of literature nor are they worthy of being represented as nations. Colonial representations of indigenous people continue on into the independence era and can still be detected in our time. The thesis of this book is that there are various ways to decolonize the representation of Amerindian peoples. Each chapter has its own decolonial thesis which it then resolves. Chapter 1 proves that there is coloniality in contemporary scholarship and argues that word choices can be improved to decolonize the way we describe the first Americans. Chapter 2 argues that literature in Latin American begins before 1492 and shows the long arc of Mayan expression, taking the Popol Wuj as a case study. Chapter 3 demonstrates how colonialist discourse is reinforced by a dualist rhetorical ploy of ignorance and arrogance in a Renaissance historical chronicle, Agustin de Zárate's Historia del descubrimiento y conquista del Perú. Chapter 4 shows how by inverting the Renaissance dualist configuration of civilization and barbarian, the Nahua (Aztecs) who were formerly considered barbarian can be "civilized" within Spanish norms. This is done by modeling the categories of civilization discussed at length by the Friar Bartolomé de las Casas as a template that can serve to evaluate Nahua civil society as encapsulated by the historiography of Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl, a possibility that would have been available to Spaniards during that time. Chapter 5 maintains that the colonialities of the pre-Independence era survive, but that Criollo-indigenous dialogue is capable of excavating their roots to extirpate them. By comparing the discussions of the hacienda system by the Peruvian essayist Manuel González Prada and by the Mayan-Quiché eye-witness to history Rigoberta Menchú, this books shows that there is common ground between their viewpoints despite the different genres in which their work appears and despite the different countries and the eight decades that separated them, suggesting a universality to the problem of the hacienda which can be dissected. This book models five different decolonizing methods to extricate from the continuities of coloniality both indigenous writing and the representation of indigenous peoples by learned elites.

New Worlds

Author : John Lynch
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300183740

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New Worlds by John Lynch Pdf

This extraordinary book encompasses the time period from the first Christian evangelists' arrival in Latin America to the dictators of the late twentieth century. With unsurpassed knowledge of Latin American history, John Lynch sets out to explore the reception of Christianity by native peoples and how it influenced their social and religious lives as the centuries passed. As attentive to modern times as to the colonial period, Lynch also explores the extent to which Indian religion and ancestral ways survived within the new Christian culture.The book follows the development of religious culture over time by focusing on peak periods of change: the response of religion to the Enlightenment, the emergence of the Church from the wars of independence, the Romanization of Latin American religion as the papacy overtook the Spanish crown in effective control of the Church, the growing challenge of liberalism and the secular state, and in the twentieth century, military dictators' assaults on human rights. Throughout the narrative, Lynch develops a number of special themes and topics. Among these are the Spanish struggle for justice for Indians, the Church's position on slavery, the concept of popular religion as distinct from official religion, and the development of liberation theology.

An Environmental History of Latin America

Author : Shawn William Miller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521848534

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An Environmental History of Latin America by Shawn William Miller Pdf

This book narrates the mutually mortal historical contest between humans and nature in Latin America. Covering a period that begins with Amerindian civilizations and concludes in the region's present urban agglomerations, the work offers an original synthesis of the current scholarship on Latin America's environmental history and argues that tropical nature played a central role in shaping the region's historical development. Seeing Latin America's environmental past from the perspective of many centuries illustrates that human civilizations, ancient and modern, have been simultaneously more powerful and more vulnerable than previously thought.

A Companion to Latin American History

Author : Thomas H. Holloway
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781444391640

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A Companion to Latin American History by Thomas H. Holloway Pdf

The Companion to Latin American History collects the work of leading experts in the field to create a single-source overview of the diverse history and current trends in the study of Latin America. Presents a state-of-the-art overview of the history of Latin America Written by the top international experts in the field 28 chapters come together as a superlative single source of information for scholars and students Recognizes the breadth and diversity of Latin American history by providing systematic chronological and geographical coverage Covers both historical trends and new areas of interest

The Routledge History of Latin American Culture

Author : Carlos Manuel Salomon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317449294

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The Routledge History of Latin American Culture by Carlos Manuel Salomon Pdf

The Routledge History of Latin American Culture delves into the cultural history of Latin America from the end of the colonial period to the twentieth century, focusing on the formation of national, racial, and ethnic identity, the culture of resistance, the effects of Eurocentrism, and the process of cultural hybridity to show how the people of Latin America have participated in the making of their own history. The selections from an interdisciplinary group of scholars range widely across the geographic spectrum of the Latin American world and forms of cultural production. Exploring the means and meanings of cultural production, the essays illustrate the myriad ways in which cultural output illuminates political and social themes in Latin American history. From religion to food, from political resistance to artistic representation, this handbook showcases the work of scholars from the forefront of Latin American cultural history, creating an essential reference volume for any scholar of modern Latin America.

Beyond Tordesillas

Author : Robert Patrick Newcomb,Richard Allen Gordon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Brazil
ISBN : 0814213472

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Beyond Tordesillas by Robert Patrick Newcomb,Richard Allen Gordon Pdf

In Beyond Tordesillas both young and established scholars forcefully challenge the disciplinary boundaries that for too long have separated Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian studies. Instead, the volume's contributors reveal Iberian and Latin American cultures to be inherently transoceanic, and therefore best approached in comparative terms.

The Women of Colonial Latin America

Author : Susan Migden Socolow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2000-05-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0521476429

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The Women of Colonial Latin America by Susan Migden Socolow Pdf

Surveying the varied experiences of women in colonial Spanish and Portuguese America, this book traces the effects of conquest, colonisation, and settlement on colonial women, beginning with the cultures that would produce Latin America.