Joseph / Rosenberg Reclaiming the Political in Latin American History

Essays from the North
1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8326-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 388 Seiten

Reihe: American Encounters/Global Interactions

A collection of essays and case studies on Latin America which suggest new historiographical approaches and political strategies, linking materialist analysis to constructivist understandings of power, meaning, identity, and agency.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Joseph, Gilbert M.

Rosenberg, Emily S.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Viotti da Costa, Emilia

Stern, Steve J.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

I. The Politics of Writing Latin American History

Reclaiming “the Political” at the Turn of the Millennium / Gilbert M. Joseph

New Publics, New Politics, New Histories: From Economic Reductionism to Cultural Reductionism--in Search of Dialectics / Emilia Viotti da Costa

Between Tragedy and Promise: The Politics of Writing Latin American History in the Late Twentieth Century / Steve J. Stern

II. The Contestation of Historical Narratives and Memory

The Decline of the Progressive Planter and the Rise of Subaltern Agency: Shifting Narratives of Slave Emancipation in Brazil / Barbara Weinstein

A Past to Do Justice to the Present: Collective Memory, Historical Representation, and Rule in Bahia’s Cacao Area / Mary Ann Mahony

Revolutionary Nationalism and Local Memories in El Salvador / Jeffrey L. Gould

III. Articulating the Political: The Intersection of Class, Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Generation

The Flight from the Fields Reconsidered: Gender Ideologies and Women’s Labor After Slavery in Jamaica / Diana Paton

A More Onerous Citizenship: Illness, Race, and Nation in Republican Guatemala / Greg Grandin

Nationalism, Race, and the Politics of Imperialism: Workers and North American Capital in the Chilean Copper Industry / Thomas Miller Klubock

Good Wives, Bad Girls, and Unfaithful Men: Sexual Negotiation and Labor Struggle in Chile’s Agrarian Reform, 1964–73 / Heidi Tinsman

IV. Historians and the Making of History

Bearing Witness in Hard Times: Ethnography and Testimonio in a Postrevolutionary Age / Florencia E. Mallon

Afterword: A Final Reflection on the Political / Daniel James

Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Gilbert M. Joseph is Farnam Professor of History and Director of Latin American and Iberian Studies at Yale University and Editor of the Hispanic American Historical Review. Most recently he has coedited Close Encounters of Empire: Writing the Cultural History of U.S.–Latin American Relations and Fragments of a Golden Age: The Politics of Culture in Mexico Since 1940, also published by Duke University Press.