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):

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (344 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham NC : Duke University Press, 2016.

Language Note:

In English.

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

One South America as a Field of Inquiry

Two Five Traveling Scholars

Three Research Designs of Transnational Scope

Four Yale at Machu Picchu: Hiram Bingham, Peruvian Indigenistas, and Cultural Property

Five Hispanic American History at Harvard: Clarence H. Haring and Regional History for Imperial Visibility

Six Intellectual Cooperation: Leo S. Rowe, Democratic Government, and the Politics of Scholarly Brotherhood

Seven Geographic Conquest: Isaiah Bowman’s View of South America

Eight Worldly Sociology: Edward A. Ross and the Societies “South of Panama”

Nine U.S. Scholars and the Question of Empire

Conclusion

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

CC BY

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781478091219

1478091215

OCLC:

938755638

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.12814