Reclaiming the Political in Latin American History

by Joseph, Gilbert M.; Rosenberg, Emily S.; Viotti Da Costa, Emilia (CON); Stern, Steve J. (CON)

• ISBN13: 9780822327790
• ISBN10: 0822327791
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-12-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

"The magnificence of this volume lies in Viotti da Costa's plea for political engagement and intellectual integrity, as well as in the superb scholarship that rises to her challenge. This book will inspire a new generation of scholars and teachers of Latin American history to reengage their work and lives in the new politics and political issues bubbling up around the edges of the neoliberal order of global capitalism."--Brooke Larson, author of "Cochabamba, 1550-1900: Colonialism and Agrarian Transformation in Bolivia "

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
I The Politics of Writing Latin American History
Reclaiming ``the Political'' at the Turn of the Millennium	3	(14)
Gilbert M. Joseph
New Publics, New Politics, New Histories: From Economic Reductionism to Cultural Reductionism---in Search of Dialectics	17	(15)
Emilia Viotti da Costa
Between Tragedy and Promise: The Politics of Writing Latin American History in the Late Twentieth Century	32	(49)
Steve J. Stern
II The Contestation of Historical Narratives and Memory
The Decline of the Progressive Planter and the Rise of Subaltern Agency: Shifting Narratives of Slave Emancipation in Brazil	81	(21)
Barbara Weinstein
A Past to Do Justice to the Present: Collective Memory, Historical Representation, and Rule in Bahia's Cacao Area	102	(36)
Mary Ann Mahony
Revolutionary Nationalism and Local Memories in El Salvador	138	(37)
Jeffrey L. Gould
III Articulating the Political: The Intersection of Class, Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Generation
The Flight from the Fields Reconsidered: Gender Ideologies and Women's Labor After Slavery in Jamaica	175	(30)
Diana Paton
A More Onerous Citizenship: Illness, Race, and Nation in Republican Guatemala	205	(26)
Greg Grandin
Nationalism, Race, and the Politics of Imperialism: Workers and North American Capital in the Chilean Copper Industry	231	(37)
Thomas Miller Klubock
Good Wives, Bad Girls, and Unfaithful Men: Sexual Negotiation and Labor Struggle in Chile's Agrarian Reform, 1964-73	268	(43)
Heidi Tinsman
IV Historians and the Making of History
Bearing Witness in Hard Times: Ethnography and Testimonio in a Postrevolutionary Age	311	(44)
Florencia E. Mallon
Afterword: A Final Reflection on the Political	355	(10)
Daniel James
Contributors	365	(2)
Index	367