Looking South : the evolution of Latin Americanist scholarship in the United States, 1850-1975 /
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, ai...
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
©2008.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of 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.