Disciplinary conquest : U.S. scholars in South America, 1900-1945 / Ricardo D. Salvatore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Salvatore, Ricardo Donato, author.

Series:

American encounters/global interactions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Imperialism.

Civilization--Study and teaching (Higher).

Diplomatic relations.

International relations.

Civilization.

Latin America--Civilization--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.

Latin America.

United States--Foreign relations--South America.

United States.

South America--Foreign relations--United States.

South America.

Physical Description:

xii, 329 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.

Summary:

In Disciplinary Conquest Ricardo D. Salvatore rewrites the origin story of Latin American studies by tracing the discipline's roots back to the first half of the twentieth century. Salvatore focuses on the work of five representative U.S. scholars of South America-historian Clarence Haring, geographer Isaiah Bowman, political scientist Leo Rowe, sociologist Edward Ross, and archaeologist Hiram Bingham-to show how Latin American studies was allied with U.S. business and foreign policy interests. Diplomats, policy makers, business investors, and the American public used the knowledge these and other scholars gathered to build an informal empire that fostered the growth of U.S. economic, technological, and cultural hegemony throughout the hemisphere. Tying the drive to know South America to the specialization and rise of Latin American studies, Salvatore shows how the disciplinary conquest of South America affirmed a new mode of American imperial engagement. Book jacket.

Contents:

South America as a field of inquiry

Five traveling scholars

Research designs of transnational scope

Yale at Machu Picchu : Hiram Bingham, Peruvian indigenistas, and cultural property

Hispanic American history at Harvard : Clarence H. Haring and regional history for imperial visibility

Intellectual cooperation : Leo S. Rowe, democratic government, and the politics of scholarly brotherhood

Geographic conquest : Isaiah Bowman's view of South America

Worldly sociology : Edward A. Ross and the societies "South of Panama"

U.S. scholars and the question of empire.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-312) and index.

ISBN:

9780822360810

0822360810

9780822360957

0822360950

OCLC:

910856273