Looking South
Subtitle: the evolution of Latin Americanist scholarship in the United States, 1850-1975
By: Helen Delpar
Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9780817315948; 9780817354640
Subjects: Latin Americanists -- United States; Latin America -- Study and teaching -- United States; Latin America -- Historiography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-233) and index
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Beginnings; title: Laying the foundations; title: Early historians; title: The rise of anthropology; title: Geography and the other social sciences; title: Latin Americanists and the world of policy making; title: Maturity and institutionalization; title: A decade of expansion, 1935-1945; title: Marking time, 1945-1958; title: The boom years, 1958-1975; title: Conclusion; title: Notes; title: Select bibliography; title: Index