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Close Encounters of Empire: Writing the Cultural History of U.S.-Latin American Relations (American Encounters Global...
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by Antonio Caro, Jean Adams, Kelley Bush, and Maria Suescun
Sales Rank: 90287
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Cover Type: Paperback with 575 pages
Published by: Duke University Press December 1998
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0822320991
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0822320999
Book Dimensions:
9 x 6 x 1.7 inches
Weighs: 2.2 pounds
Product Review
“[This is] ‘the first systematic attempt’ to apply postmodern theory to the study of Latin American-U.S. relations. Regardless of one’s opinion about postmodernity, postcoloniality, and subalternity, Close Encounters of Empire brings together leading scholars and rising stars to apply recent theoretical paradigms (or, perhaps ‘anti-paradigms) to the study of an age-old question.”
--History: Reviews of New Books
“The contributors to the groundbreaking collection suggest alternative ways of understanding the role that U.S. actors have played in Latin America. The authors . . . have successfully applied the intersection of culture and power to the study of U.S.-Latin American relations.”
--Michael R. Hall, South Eastern Latin Americanist
“Close Encounters of Empire . . . breaks new ground in how we understand colonialism, power, nation, and historical agency. Rigorously and professionally edited, every chapter is tightly written, clearly argued, and well-researched.
--David Sheinin, Canadian Journal of History
“[O]ne of the most important new contributions that we have had in the field in years. . . . It is impossible to do justice to the complex, varied, informative, and often fascinating essays that comprise the book. . . . [A] study that will be much discussed in inter-American relations circles. It goes well beyond—although it certainly builds upon —the work of the authors in Lester Langley’s imporant series America and the Americas.”
--Stephen J. Randall, The International History Review
“This is an extremely ambitious book and one that does not disappoint. . . . One of Close Encounters of Empire’s central strengths lies in the multiple levels of dialogue established both within and between the fields of history, anthropology, and international relations. . . . [A]n exhilarating and exhausting read. . . . [I]t has much to offer, both theoretically and empirically. . . . [T]his collection signals an evident turn in the historiography and should be a valuable tool at the graduate level.”
--Eric Zolov, The Americas
“The studies included in Close Encounters of Empire explain both postcolonial theory approaches and postmodernist interpretations of international relations, at the same time as they explore the possibilities of applying the ‘cultural turn’ to historic relations between the United States and Latin America.”
--Lorenzo Delgado, The Journal of American History
“[E]xcellent and at times brilliant essays. . . .”
--Joel P. Stillerman, Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies
“This collection of essays on U.S.-Latin American cultural encounters represents a major advance in the scholarly study of cultural relations. . . . [The] essays make for interesting and stimulating reading in their own right and, as a bonus, raise important issues of conceptualization and methodology. It deserves a wide readership.”
--Frank Ninkovich, American Historical Review
“[B]roadens our understanding of the cultural history of U.S.-Latin American relations. . . . Both supporters and skeptics of using culture to theorize a new interpretive framework for studying U.S. foreign relations will find essays within this volume to support their positions.”
--John J. Dwyer, The Historian
“[T]he authors of the essays collected here pose intriguing new research questions for scholars interested in the politics of cultural encounters, greatly enhancing understanding of the complexities of both the local and the foreign in Latin America.”
--Kim Clark, American Ethnologist
“[A] fine contribution to the ongoing reformulation of the bases of U.S.-Latin American relations.”
--Helen Delpar, Latin American Research Review
“Close Encounters of Empire is an ambitious attempt to go beyond the traditional binaries of hegemony/subordination, exploitation/domination, external/internal, U.S./Latin American, and so forth. In their stead, some authors of the essays craft new webs of relationships by rereading traditional sources within the paradigms suggested by new cultural history.”
--Daniela Spenser, Hispanic American Historical Review
Book Description
New concerns with the intersections of culture and power, historical agency, and the complexity of social and political life are producing new questions about the United States’ involvement with Latin America. Turning away from political-economic models that see only domination and resistance, exploiters and victims, the contributors to this pathbreaking collection suggest alternate ways of understanding the role that U.S. actors and agencies have played in the region during the postcolonial period.
Exploring a variety of nineteenth- and twentieth-century encounters in Latin America, these theoretically engaged essays by distinguished U.S. and Latin American historians and anthropologists illuminate a wide range of subjects. From the Rockefeller Foundation’s public health initiatives in Central America to the visual regimes of film, art, and advertisements; these essays grapple with new ways of conceptualizing public and private spheres of empire. As such, Close Encounters of Empire initiates a dialogue between postcolonial studies and the long-standing scholarship on colonialism and imperialism in the Americas as it rethinks the cultural dimensions of nationalism and development.
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