Author : Ricardo D. Salvatore
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822374501
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Disciplinary Conquest by : Ricardo D. Salvatore
Download or read book Disciplinary Conquest written by Ricardo D. Salvatore and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Disciplinary Conquest Ricardo D. Salvatore rewrites the origin story of Latin American studies by tracing the discipline's roots back to the first half of the twentieth century. Salvatore focuses on the work of five representative U.S. scholars of South America—historian Clarence Haring, geographer Isaiah Bowman, political scientist Leo Rowe, sociologist Edward Ross, and archaeologist Hiram Bingham—to show how Latin American studies was allied with U.S. business and foreign policy interests. Diplomats, policy makers, business investors, and the American public used the knowledge these and other scholars gathered to build an informal empire that fostered the growth of U.S. economic, technological, and cultural hegemony throughout the hemisphere. Tying the drive to know South America to the specialization and rise of Latin American studies, Salvatore shows how the disciplinary conquest of South America affirmed a new mode of American imperial engagement.