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What Is Latin American History?

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What is Latin American History? surveys the development of this vibrant and dynamic field of study in North America, Latin America, and Europe. After briefly sketching the growth of the topic up to the 1960s, Marshall Eakin focuses on the past half-century, from the dominance of social history to the cultural turn. He surveys innovative work on topics including slavery, indigenous peoples, race, the environment, science, medicine, and gender, and ends with a discussion of the emergence of the concepts of borderlands, the Atlantic world, and transnational history - that both enrich and challenge the very idea of Latin America.
 
This concise volume offers the first broad overview of Latin American history and historiography for students, scholars, and the general reader, outlining the key social, cultural, and political forces that have shaped both Latin America and its study.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
 
Introduction
 
1: What Is Latin America?
 
2: The Pioneering Generations
 
3: The Economic and Quantitative Turns
 
4: The Social Turn
 
5: Cultural and Other Turns
 
6: Beyond Latin American History
 
Epilogue: The Future of Latin American History
 
Further Reading
 
Notes

About the author










Marshall Eakin is Professor of History at Vanderbilt University.

Summary

What is Latin American History? surveys the development of this vibrant and dynamic field of study in North America, Latin America, and Europe. After briefly sketching the growth of the topic up to the 1960s, Marshall Eakin focuses on the past half-century, from the dominance of social history to the cultural turn. He surveys innovative work on topics including slavery, indigenous peoples, race, the environment, science, medicine, and gender, and ends with a discussion of the emergence of the concepts of borderlands, the Atlantic world, and transnational history - that both enrich and challenge the very idea of Latin America.

This concise volume offers the first broad overview of Latin American history and historiography for students, scholars, and the general reader, outlining the key social, cultural, and political forces that have shaped both Latin America and its study.

Product details

Authors Eakin, Marshall Eakin
Publisher Polity Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 30.09.2021
 
EAN 9781509538522
ISBN 978-1-5095-3852-2
No. of pages 176
Series What is History series
What is History?
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History

Geschichte, Lateinamerika, History, Allg. Geschichte, Spezialthemen Geschichte, History Special Topics, Geschichte / Lateinamerika, karibischer Raum, Lateinamerika /Geschichte, Latin American & Caribbean History

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