Where Cultures Meet (eBook, PDF)

Frontiers in Latin American History
Redaktion: Weber, David J.; Rausch, Jane M.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In Where Cultures Meet, editors Weber and Rausch have collected twenty essays that explore how the frontier experience has helped create Latin American national identities and institutions. Using 'frontier' to mean more than 'border,' Weber and Rausch regard frontiers as the geographic zones of interaction between distinct cultures. Each essay in the volume illuminates the recipro-cal influences of the 'pioneer' culture and the 'frontier' culture, as they contend with each other and their physical environment. The transformative power of frontiers gives them special interest for historians and anthropologists. Delving into the frontier experience below the Rio Grande, Where Cultures Meet is an important collection for anyone seeking to understand fully Latin American history and culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 1997
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216248712
• Artikelnr.: 75137677

Autorenporträt

David J. Weber is the Robert and Nancy Dedman professor of history at the Southern Methodist University. Jane M. Rausch is professor of history at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 I the Significance of the Frontier
Chapter 2 The Significance of the Frontier in American History
Chapter 3 Latin-American Frontiers
Chapter 4 Frontier Barbarism
Chapter 5 The Frontier in Hispanic America
Chapter 6 The Frontiers of Hispanic America
Part 7 II Latin America as a Frontier of Europe
Chapter 8 The Great Frontier
Chapter 9 The Great Frontier: Freedom and Hierarchy
Chapter 10 New World Frontiers: Comparisons and Agendas
Part 11 III Frontier Peoples and Institutions
Chapter 12 Reflections on the Ibero-American Frontier Mission as an
Institution in Native American History
Chapter 13 The Encomienda in Paraguay
Chapter 14 Frontier Warfare in Colonial Chile
Chapter 15 "Black Transfrontiersmen:" The Caribbean Maroons
Chapter 16 Family, Frontiers, and a Brazilian Community
Part 17 IV Frontier Peoples and National Identity
Chapter 18 National Identity and the Frontier
Chapter 19 The Gaucho in Argentina's Quest for National Identity
Chapter 20 Bandeirantes and Pioneers
Part 21 Contemporary Frontiers
Chapter 22 "Two-Step" Migration and Upward Mobility on the Frontier: The
Safety Valve Effect in Pejibaye
Chapter 23 Violence on the Frontier
Chapter 24 Frontier Expansion and Indian Peoples in the Brazilian Amazon
Chapter 25 Social Change on the Latin American Frontier