Close encounters of empire : writing the cultural history of U.S.-Latin American relations / edited by Gilbert M. Joseph, Catherine C. LeGrand, and Ricardo D. Salvatore ; with a foreword by Fernando Coronil.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Joseph, G. M. (Gilbert Michael), 1947-

LeGrand, Catherine, 1947-

Salvatore, Ricardo Donato.

Series:

American encounters/global interactions.

American encounters/global interactions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin America--Relations--United States.

Latin America.

United States--Relations--Latin America.

United States.

Latin America--Civilization--American influences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (593 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

New concerns with the intersections of culture and power, historical agency, and the complexity of social and political life are producing new questions about the United States’ involvement with Latin America. Turning away from political-economic models that see only domination and resistance, exploiters and victims, the contributors to this pathbreaking collection suggest alternate ways of understanding the role that U.S. actors and agencies have played in the region during the postcolonial period.Exploring a variety of nineteenth- and twentieth-century encounters in Latin America, these theoretically engaged essays by distinguished U.S. and Latin American historians and anthropologists illuminate a wide range of subjects. From the Rockefeller Foundation’s public health initiatives in Central America to the visual regimes of film, art, and advertisements; these essays grapple with new ways of conceptualizing public and private spheres of empire. As such, Close Encounters of Empire initiates a dialogue between postcolonial studies and the long-standing scholarship on colonialism and imperialism in the Americas as it rethinks the cultural dimensions of nationalism and development.

Contents:

Close ecounters: toward a new cultural history of U.S.-Latin American relations / Gilbert M. Joseph

The decentered center and the expansionist periphery: the paradoxes of foreign-local encounter / Steve J. Stern

The enterprise of knowledge: representational machines of informal empire / Ricardo D. Salvatore

Landscape and the imperial subject: U.S. images of the Andes, 1859-1930 / Deborah Poole

Love in the tropics: marriage, divorce, and the construction of benevolent colonialism in Puerto Rico, 1898-1910 / Eileen J. Findlay

Mercenaries in the theater of war: publicity, technology, and the illusion of power during the Brazilian naval revolt of 1893 / Steven C. Topik

The Sandino rebellion revisited: civil war, imperialism, popular nationalism, and state formation mudded up together in the Segovias of Nicaragua, 1926-1934 / Michael J. Schroeder

The cult of the airplane among U.S. military men and Dominicans during the U.S. occupation and the Trujillo regime / Eric Paul Roorda

Central American encounters with Rockefeller public health, 1914-1921 / Steven Palmer

Living in Macondo: economy and culture in a United Fruit Company banana enclave in Colombia / Catherine C. LeGrand

From welfare capitalism to the free market in Chile: gender, culture, and politics in the copper mines / Thomas Miller Klubock

Everyday forms of transnational collaboration: U.S. film propaganda in cold war Mexico / Seth Fein

Gringo chickens with worms: food and nationalism in the Dominican Republic / Lauren Derby

Turning to culture / Emily S. Rosenberg

Social fields and cultural encounters / William Roseberry

From the reading to seeing: doing and undoing imperialism in the visual arts / Maria del Carmen Suescun Pozas.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822396352

0822396351

OCLC:

1140000915