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Reclaiming the political in Latin American history : essays from the North /
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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
©2001.
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| Colección: | American encounters/global interactions.
e-Duke books scholarly collection. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.