Close Encounters of Empire

Writing the Cultural History of U.S.-Latin American Relations
Herausgeber: Joseph, Gilbert M; Salvatore, Ricardo D; Legrand, Catherine C

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

""Close Encounters" is an unusual achievement, especially for a collection of essays. Not only does it offer an innovative, imaginative, insightful interrogation of relations between Latin America and the U.S.A., regarded through the lens of the most contemporary of theoretical discourses--it also delivers on a much more difficult objective: to open up a new, critically nuanced perspective on colonialism and postcoloniality, sui generis. A well-balanced mix of the epistemic and the empirical, of conceptual argument and case study, it demands attention from anyone interested in the Americas, anyone concerned with colonialism, anyone preoccupied with postcolonial politics, economy, and culture--anywhere."--John Comaroff, University of Chicago

---

Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 592
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 1998
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 1247g
• ISBN-13: 9780822320852
• ISBN-10: 0822320851
• Artikelnr.: 42994003

Autorenporträt

Gilbert M. Joseph is Farnam Professor of History and Director of Latin American and Iberian Studies at Yale University. Catherine C. LeGrand is Associate Professor of History at McGill University. Ricardo D. Salvatore is Professor of History at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword / Fernando Coronil ix
Preface xiii
I: Theoretical Concerns
Close Encounters: Toward a New Cultural History of U.S.-Latin American
Relations / Gilbert M. Joseph 3
The Decentered Center and the Expansionist Periphery: The Paradoxes of
Foreign-Local Encounter / Steve J. Stern 47
The Enterprise of Knowledge: Representational Machines of Informal Empire /
Ricardo d. Salvatore 69
II: Empirical Studies
Landscape and the Imperial Subject: U.S. Images of the Andes, 1859-1930 /
Deborah Poole 107
Love in the Tropics: Marriage, Divorce, and the Construction of Benevolent
Colonialism in Puerto Rico, 1898-1910 / Eileen J. Findlay 139
Mercenaries in the Theater of War: Publicity, Technology, and the Illusion
of Power during the Brazilian Naval Revolt of 1893 / Steven C. Topik 173
The Sandino Rebellion Revisited: Civil War, Imperialism, Popular
Nationalism, and State Formation Muddied Up Together in the Segovias of
Nicaragua, 1926-1934 / Michael J. Schroeder 208
The Cult of the Airplane among U.S. Military men and Dominicans during the
U.S. Occupation and the Trujillo Regime / Eric Paul Roorda 269
Central American Encounters with Rockefeller Public Health, 1914-1921 /
Steven Palmer 311
Living in Macondo: Economy and Culture in a United Fruit Company Banana
Enclave in Colombia / Catherine C. LeGrand 333
From Welfare Capitalism to the Free Market in Chile: Gender, Culture, and
Politics in the Copper Mines / Thomas Miller Klubock 369
Everyday Forms of Transnational Collaboration: U.S. Film Propaganda in Cold
War Mexico / Seth Fein 400
Gringo Chickens with Worms: Food and Nationalism in the Dominican Republic
/ Lauren Derby 451
III: Final Reflections
Turning to Culture / Emily S. Rosenberg 497
Social Fields and Cultural Encounters / William Roseberry 515
From Reading to Seeing: Doing and Undoing Imperialism in the Visual Arts /
Maria del Carmen Suescun Pozas 525
Contributors 557
Index 563