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CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF EMPIRE
WRITING THE CULTURAL HISTORY OF U.S.-LATIN AMERICAN RELATIONS |
| By: |
Gilbert M. Joseph (Editor), Catherine C. LeGrand (Editor), Ricardo Donato Salvatore (Editor) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£112.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0822320851 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780822320852 |
| Publisher: |
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 June, 1998 |
| Series: |
American Encounters/Global Interactions |
| Pages: |
592 |
| Description: |
A series of essays on encounters between Latin Americans and North Americans that offer a framework to determine how foreign people, ideas and institutions were received and appropriated in modern Latin America. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Illustrations: |
25 b&w photographs, 2 maps |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Duke University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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