Title Reclaiming the political in Latin American history : essays from the North / edited by Gilbert M. Joseph

Published Durham : Duke University Press, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 379 pages) Series American encounters/global interactions American encounters/global interactions. e-Duke books scholarly collection. Contents 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 Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Historiography -- Political aspects -- Latin America HISTORY -- Latin America -- General. HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America. Historiography Historiography -- Political aspects Geschiedschrijving. 15.85 history of America. Historiography -- Political aspects -- Latin America. SUBJECT Latin America -- Historiography Subject Latin America Latin America -- Historiography. Form Electronic book Author Joseph, G. M. (Gilbert Michael), 1947- ISBN 9780822383260 0822383268 0822327791 9780822327790 1283063115 9781283063111 9786613063113 6613063118

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