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

• Autore: Delpar Helen
• Pubblicazione: Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (257 p.)
• Disciplina: 980.0307/073
• Soggetto topico: Latin Americanists - United States
• Soggetto geografico: Latin America Study and teaching United States; Latin America Historiography
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-233) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Looking South
• ISBN: 0-8173-8012-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910807890503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II