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Reclaiming the political in Latin American history : essays from the North / edited by Gilbert M. Joseph.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- American encounters/global interactions.
- American encounters/global interactions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Historiography--Political aspects--Latin America.
- Historiography.
- Latin America--Historiography.
- Latin America.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (389 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, c2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A collection of essays and case studies on Latin America which suggest new historiographical approaches and political strategies, linking materialist analysis to constructivist understandings of power, meaning, identity, and agency.
- Contents:
- I. THE POLITICS OF WRITING LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY
- Reclaiming "the political" at the Turn of the Millenium / Gilbert M. Joseph
- New publics, new politics, new histories : from economic reductionism to cultural reductionism - in search of dialectics / Emilia Viotti da Costa
- Between tragedy and promise : the politics of writing Latin American history in the late Twentieth Century / Steve J. Stern
- II. THE CONTESTATION OF HISTORICAL NARRATIVES AND MEMORY
- The decline of the progressive planter and the rise of subaltern agency : shifting narratives of slave emancipation in Brazil / Barbara Weinstein
- A past to do justice to the present : collective memory, historical representation and rule in Bahia's cacao area / Mary Ann Mahony
- Revolutionary nationalism and local memories in El Salvador / Jeffrey L. Gould
- III. ARTICULATING THE POLITICAL: THE INTERSECTION OF CLASS, RACE, GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND GENERATION
- The flight from the fields reconsidered : gender ideologies and women's labor after slavery in Jamaica / Diana Paton
- A more onerous citizenship : illness, race and nation in Repubican Guatemala / Greg Grandin
- Nationalism, race and the politics of imperialism : workers and North American capital in the Chilean copper industry / Thomas Miller Klubock
- Good wives, bad girls and unfaithful men : sexual negotiation and labor struggle in Chile's agrarian reform, 1964-73 / Heidi Tinsman
- IV. HISTORIANS AND THE MAKING OF HISTORY
- Bearing witness in hard times : ethnography and Testimonio in a postrevolutionary age / Florencia E. Mallon
- Afterword: A final reflection on the political / Daniel James.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-06311-5
- 9786613063113
- 0-8223-8326-8
- OCLC:
- 245538694
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