Marshall Eakin - What is Latin American History?

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3 Title Page What is Latin American History? Marshall C. Eakin polity

4 Copyright Page Copyright Page Copyright © Marshall C. Eakin 2021 The right of Marshall C. Eakin to be identified as Author of this Work has been asserted in accordance with the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published in 2021 by Polity Press Polity Press 65 Bridge Street Cambridge CB2 1UR, UK Polity Press 101 Station Landing Suite 300 Medford, MA 02155, USA All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purpose of criticism and review, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-3851-5 ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-3852-2 (pb) A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Eakin, Marshall C. (Marshall Craig), 1952- author. Title: What is Latin American history? / Marshall C. Eakin. Description: Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity, 2021. | Series: What is history? | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “The first student-friendly guide to the sub-field of Latin American history”-- Provided by publisher. Identifiers: LCCN 2021006121 (print) | LCCN 2021006122 (ebook) | ISBN 9781509538515 | ISBN 9781509538522 (pb) | ISBN 9781509538539 (epub) Subjects: LCSH: Latin America--Historiography. | Historians--Latin America. | Latin America--History--20th century. Classification: LCC F1409.7 .E24 2021 (print) | LCC F1409.7 (ebook) | DDC 980.03--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021006121 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021006122 by Fakenham Prepress Solutions, Fakenham, Norfolk NR21 8NL The publisher has used its best endeavours to ensure that the URLs for external websites referred to in this book are correct and active at the time of going to press. However, the publisher has no responsibility for the websites and can make no guarantee that a site will remain live or that the content is or will remain appropriate. Every effort has been made to trace all copyright holders, but if any have been overlooked the publisher will be pleased to include any necessary credits in any subsequent reprint or edition. For further information on Polity, visit our website: politybooks.com

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6 Acknowledgments Acknowledgments I would like to thank Pascal Porcheron and Polity Press for the invitation to write this book. Although I have long reflected on the history of Latin American history, and have even written a bit about the subject, writing this volume has given me the opportunity to take a closer and deeper look at the longue durée of the field. I have been a participant-observer over the past five decades in the shifting historiographical approaches I describe in chapters 3 – 6 . Revisiting this history has been an enlightening personal as well as professional encounter with Latin American history and historians across decades and centuries. An abraço to Tom Holloway for his advice and suggestions since the inception of the project. I also very much appreciate the generous and helpful comments of the two anonymous outside readers of the manuscript. Many, many years ago, Teresa Meade (without either of us knowing) gave me the initial push in our work on the Conference on Latin American History’s Teaching Committee. Obrigado , Teresa. After a quarter century, here is the result of our discussions. As always, many thanks to my colleagues in the Department of History at Vanderbilt University, especially Jane Landers, Celso Castilho, Eddie Wright-Rios, and Frank Robinson, our Latin American history junta . The graduate students in my Research Seminar in Latin American History during the fall of 2020 read and discussed an earlier version of the manuscript. Thank you, Claudia Monterroza Rivera, André Ramos Chacón, Ricky Sakamoto-Pugh, and Alex Sanchez. Finally, my thanks to Pascal and his able crew – Ellen MacDonald-Kramer, Stephanie Homer, Rachel Moore, and Caroline Richmond – who have shepherded the project from inception to completion.

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8 1 What Is Latin America? Notes

9 2 The Pioneering GenerationsHistory and Colonialism Nineteenth-Century Origins Professionalization: An Academic Community Emerges (on Three Continents) On the Eve of the Boom Notes

10 3 The Economic and Quantitative TurnsEl Boom The Quantitative “Moment” Marxisms and Dependency Theories Notes

11 4 The Social Turn Comparative Slavery, Abolition, and Race Relations Indigenous Peoples Rural History Miners, Merchants, and Urban Workers Women and Gender Institutions: New Perspectives Institutionalization of the Field Notes

12 5 Cultural and Other TurnsFin de Siècle A Cultural Turn? Latin American History and the Cultural Turn Gender and Sexuality Indigenous History Notes

13 6 Beyond Latin American HistoryA New Century, a New Millenium Borders and Frontiers Transnational History A New Economic History? The Atlantic World Emerges Race and Ethnicity A Natural Turn? Science, Medicine, Public Health, and Technology Unity and Diversity Notes

14 Epilogue: The Future of Latin American History Notes

15 Further Reading Chapter 1 What Is Latin America? Chapter 2 The Pioneering Generations Chapter 3 The Economic and Quantitative Turns Chapter 4 The Social Turn Chapter 5 Cultural and Other Turns Chapter 6 Beyond Latin American History Epilogue: The Future of Latin American History Selected General Histories of Latin America

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17 End User License Agreement

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