Looking South : the evolution of Latin Americanist scholarship in the United States, 1850-1975 / Helen Delpar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Delpar, Helen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin Americanists--United States.

Latin Americanists.

Latin America--Study and teaching--United States.

Latin America.

Latin America--Historiography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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, and ev

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-233) and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8012-4

OCLC:

426050440