Latin American Studies in the Universities of the United Kingdom
Author | : University of London. Institute of Latin American Studies |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
Download Latin American Studies In The Universities Of The United Kingdom full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Latin American Studies In The Universities Of The United Kingdom ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author | : University of London. Institute of Latin American Studies |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Victor Bulmer-Thomas |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 1989-08-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521372054 |
This book studies the reasons for the dramatic decline of British relations with Latin America.
Author | : Ronald H. Chilcote |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2022-03-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1538141604 |
With a unique international scope, this timely text traces the impact of the ongoing Cold War on the transformation of the field of Latin American studies in the United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Soviet Union, China, and Cuba. Drawing on unpublished documents, the book highlights how the new generation of academics challenged the mainstream Cold War consensus and opened the field to progressive theoretical currents. This book provides an essential foundation for new directions in the field of Latin American studies for academics and students.
Author | : Luz Elena Ramirez |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780813030814 |
"Clear and well documented, this is a very important contribution to the rich, varied work on British imperial activities and to postcolonial studies."--Helen M. Cooper, Stony Brook University Ramirez examines British literary representations of Latin America from the 16th through the 20th centuries, with particular attention to travel writing and fiction published during and after Latin American independence. Locating these representations within the political and economic histories of the countries in which they are set, she places works by Sir Walter Ralegh, Joseph Conrad, Arthur Conan Doyle, Malcolm Lowry, and Graham Greene within a critical context that can best be called "Americanist" and surveys the prominent themes of these works. She also examines their imperialist impulses and their changing master cultural narratives, from Charles Gould's "idea" of empire and his faith in commercial development for Latin America in Conrad's Nostromo to Lowry's Under the Volcano, a story of a failed and alcoholic English Consul in 1930s Mexico. Americanist literature, as Ramirez sees it, manifests mostly informal aspects of imperialism, reflecting the British desire to invest, develop, map, and catalog in countries as varied as Mexico, Panama, Peru, and Brazil. Ramirez argues that British representations of Latin Americareveal an authorial freedom to advance imperial and commercial projects on one hand, while questioning the English self and sense of strangeness in the New World on the other. Especially in the 19th- and 20-century works under consideration, she reveals an acute sense of vulnerability, as British power worldwide had begun to crumble. Expanding on the critical conversation surrounding "Orientalism" and "New World Studies," Ramirez's examination of informal British imperialism and the struggle of motives represented in each of the selected narratives opens a fascinating new terrain of texts reflecting the historical relationship between Britain and Latin America.
Author | : Jose C. Moya |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 551 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0195166205 |
This Oxford Handbook comprehensively examines the field of Latin American history.
Author | : Mark Carey |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2010-04-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 019974257X |
Climate change is producing profound changes globally. Yet we still know little about how it affects real people in real places on a daily basis because most of our knowledge comes from scientific studies that try to estimate impacts and project future climate scenarios. This book is different, illustrating in vivid detail how people in the Andes have grappled with the effects of climate change and ensuing natural disasters for more than half a century. In Peru's Cordillera Blanca mountain range, global climate change has generated the world's most deadly glacial lake outburst floods and glacier avalanches, killing 25,000 people since 1941. As survivors grieved, they formed community organizations to learn about precarious glacial lakes while they sent priests to the mountains, hoping that God could calm the increasingly hostile landscape. Meanwhile, Peruvian engineers working with miniscule budgets invented innovative strategies to drain dozens of the most unstable lakes that continue forming in the twenty first century. But adaptation to global climate change was never simply about engineering the Andes to eliminate environmental hazards. Local urban and rural populations, engineers, hydroelectric developers, irrigators, mountaineers, and policymakers all perceived and responded to glacier melting differently-based on their own view of an ideal Andean world. Disaster prevention projects involved debates about economic development, state authority, race relations, class divisions, cultural values, the evolution of science and technology, and shifting views of nature. Over time, the influx of new groups to manage the Andes helped transform glaciated mountains into commodities to consume. Locals lost power in the process and today comprise just one among many stakeholders in the high Andes-and perhaps the least powerful. Climate change transformed a region, triggering catastrophes while simultaneously jumpstarting modernization processes. This book's historical perspective illuminates these trends that would be ignored in any scientific projections about future climate scenarios.
Author | : Alejandro de la Fuente |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 663 |
Release | : 2018-04-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1316832325 |
Alejandro de la Fuente and George Reid Andrews offer the first systematic, book-length survey of humanities and social science scholarship on the exciting field of Afro-Latin American studies. Organized by topic, these essays synthesize and present the current state of knowledge on a broad variety of topics, including Afro-Latin American music, religions, literature, art history, political thought, social movements, legal history, environmental history, and ideologies of racial inclusion. This volume connects the region's long history of slavery to the major political, social, cultural, and economic developments of the last two centuries. Written by leading scholars in each of those topics, the volume provides an introduction to the field of Afro-Latin American studies that is not available from any other source and reflects the disciplinary and thematic richness of this emerging field.
Author | : Verity Smith |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 1781 |
Release | : 1997-03-26 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 113531425X |
A comprehensive, encyclopedic guide to the authors, works, and topics crucial to the literature of Central and South America and the Caribbean, the Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature includes over 400 entries written by experts in the field of Latin American studies. Most entries are of 1500 words but the encyclopedia also includes survey articles of up to 10,000 words on the literature of individual countries, of the colonial period, and of ethnic minorities, including the Hispanic communities in the United States. Besides presenting and illuminating the traditional canon, the encyclopedia also stresses the contribution made by women authors and by contemporary writers. Outstanding Reference Source Outstanding Reference Book
Author | : Verity Smith |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 704 |
Release | : 2014-01-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 113596033X |
The Concise Encyclopedia includes: all entries on topics and countries, cited by many reviewers as being among the best entries in the book; entries on the 50 leading writers in Latin America from colonial times to the present; and detailed articles on some 50 important works in this literature-those who read and studied in the English-speaking world.