Close Encounters of Empire

by Joseph, Gilbert M.; Legrand, Catherine C.; Salvatore, Ricardo D.

• ISBN13: 9780822320852
• ISBN10: 0822320851
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-02-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

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 Statesrs" 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 Foundationrs"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 Empireinitiates 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.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix	(4)
Fernando Coronil
Preface	xiii
I: Theoretical Concerns	3	(104)
Close Encounters: Toward a New Cultural History of U.S.-Latin American Relations	3	(44)
Gilbert M. Joseph
The Decentered Center and the Expansionist Periphery: The Paradoxes of Foreign-Local Encounter	47	(22)
Steve J. Stern
The Enterprise of Knowledge: Representational Machines of Informal Empire	69	(38)
Ricardo D. Salvatore
II: Empirical Studies	107	(390)
Landscape and the Imperial Subject: U.S. Images of the Andes, 1859-1930	107	(32)
Deborah Poole
Love in the Tropics: Marriage, Divorce, and the Construction of Benevolent Colonialism in Puerto Rico, 1898-1910	139	(34)
Eileen J. Findlay
Mercenaries in the Theater of War: Publicity, Technology, and the Illusion of Power during the Brazilian Naval Revolt of 1893	173	(35)
Steven C. Topik
The Sandino Rebellion Revisited: Civil War, Imperialism, Popular Nationalism, and State Formation Muddied Up Together in the Segovias of Nicaragua, 1926-1934	208	(61)
Michael J. Schroeder
The Cult of the Airplane among U.S. Military Men and Dominicans during the U.S. Occupation and the Trujillo Regime	269	(42)
Eric Paul Roorda
Central American Encounters with Rockefeller Public Health, 1914-1921	311	(22)
Steven Palmer
Living in Macondo: Economy and Culture in a United Fruit Company Banana Enclave in Colombia	333	(36)
Catherine C. LeGrand
From Welfare Capitalism to the Free Market in Chile: Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Copper Mines	369	(31)
Thomas Miller Klubock
Everyday Forms of Transitional Collaboration: U.S. Film Propaganda in Cold War Mexico	400	(51)
Seth Fein
Gringo Chickens with Worms: Food and Nationalism in the Dominican Republic	451	(46)
Lauren Derby
III: Final Reflections	497	(60)
Turning to Culture	497	(18)
Emily S. Rosenberg
Social Fields and Cultural Encounters	515	(10)
William Roseberry
From Reading to Seeing: Doing and Undoing Imperialism in the Visual Arts	525	(32)
Maria del Carmen Suescun Pozas
Contributors	557	(6)
Index	563