Transnational Perspectives on the Conquest and Colonization of Latin America
Ranging geographically from Tierra del Fuego to California and the Caribbean, and historically from early European sightings and the utopian projects of would-be colonizers to the present-day cultural politics of migrant communities and international relations, this volume presents a rich variety of case studies and scholarly perspectives on the interplay of diverse cultures in the Americas since the European conquest.
Subjects covered include documentary and archaeological evidence of cultural interaction, the collection of native artifacts and the role of museums in the interpretation of indigenous traditions, the cultural impact of Christian missions and the representation of indigenous cultures in writings addressed to European readers, the development of Latin American artistic traditions and the incorporation of motifs from European classical antiquity into modern popular culture, the contribution of Afro-descendants to the cultural mix of Latin America and the erasure of the Hispanic heritage from cultural perceptions of California since the nineteenth century.
By offering accessible and well-illustrated accounts of a wide range of particular cases, the volume aims to stimulate thinking about historical and methodological issues, which can be exploited in a teaching context as well as in the furtherance of research projects in a comparative and transnational framework.
Jenny Mander is an intellectual historian at the University of Cambridge, specializing in eighteenth-century France, the rise of the novel, colonial thought and early globalization. She has a special interest in the abb Raynal, and is an editor of the new critical edition of Raynals Histoire des deux Indes.
David Midgley is Professor emeritus of German Literature and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Writing Weimar: Critical Realism in German Literature, 19181933 (Oxford 2000), and his research is currently focused especially on the major works of Alfred Dblin.
Christine D. Beaule is Associate Professor of Latin American and Iberian Studies, University of Hawaii at Mnoa. Her research combines anthropological archaeology with the study of historical texts and is focused on the comparative impact of colonialism on material culture and indigenous sociopolitical organization in South America and the Philippines.
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Names: Mander, Jenny, editor. | Midgley, David R., 1948- editor. | Beaule, Christine D., editor.
Title: Transnational perspectives on the conquest and colonization of Latin America / edited by Jenny Mander, David Midgley and Christine D. Beaule.
Description: New York, NY : Routledge, 2020. | Series: Routledge studies in the history of the Americas | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019028099 (print) | LCCN 2019028100 (ebook) | ISBN 9780367353100 (hardback) | ISBN 9780429330612 (ebook) | ISBN 9781000639995 (adobe pdf) | ISBN 9781000644975 (mobi) | ISBN 9781000649956 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Latin America--Civilization--European influences. |
Latin America--Colonial influence. | Latin AmericaIntellectual life. |
Latin America--Colonization.
Classification: LCC F1408.3 .T73 2020 (print) | LCC F1408.3 (ebook) | DDC 980--dc23
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The editors of this volume are deeply indebted to the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) and the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, Cambridge, and to the Modern Humanities Research Association, for their generous financial support of the Legacies of Conquest conference held at CRASSH in April 2017, at which the contributors to this volume met, and out of which the publication project developed.
They are grateful to the contributors for the enthusiasm and commitment they have shown in helping to put this volume together, and for the patient effort that was required in many cases to shape individual chapters to the conception of the volume as a whole.
The editors wish to record their thanks to Michigan State University Press for their kind permission to reproduce portions of the book Shakespearean Cultures by Joo Cezar de Castro Rocha in Chapter 12 of this volume, also to the various individuals and institutions that gave their permission for the use of the images that appear in the volume, and to Frieda Midgley of Kettles Yard, Cambridge, for her assistance in preparing some of the images.
In particular, the editors wish to express their gratitude to Maya Feile Tomes of Christs College, Cambridge, who not only translated two of the chapters, but also contributed substantially to the planning, preparation and overall conception of the project.
