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Author Delpar, Helen.

Title Looking South : the evolution of Latin Americanist scholarship in the United States, 1850-1975 / Helen Delpar
Published Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 241 pages)
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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-233) and index
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Subject Latin Americanists -- United States
HISTORY -- General.
HISTORY.
Historiography
Latin Americanists
Education
SUBJECT Latin America -- Study and teaching -- United States
Latin America -- Historiography
Subject Latin America
United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780817380120
0817380124