Placing Latin America in modern world history textbooks

HAHR - Hispanic American Historical Review

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Besse, Susan K ^a,b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b City College Fellowships Program

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EID: 17144391341     PISSN: 00182168     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/00182168-84-3-411     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. William H. McNeill, A History of the Human Community: Prehistory to the Present, 5th ed. (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1997), xv
2. Peter N. Stearns, World History in Brief: Major Patterns of Change and Continuity, 4th ed. (New York: Longman, 2002), 644, 465
3. Patrick Manning comments, in his Navigating World History: Historians Create a Global Past (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), that Latin America has not been well conceptualized to fit within the narrative of world history, a fact that is reflected in the scant attention the region receives in this otherwise useful book
4. Michael Geyer and Charles Bright, "World History in a Global Age," American Historical Review 100 (Oct. 1995)
5. An eloquent case is made by Michael Adas, "Bringing Ideas and Agency Back In: Representation and the Comparative Approach to World History" in World History: Ideologies, Structures, and Identities, ed. Philip Pomper, Richard H. Elphick, and Richard T. Vann (Cambridge: Blackwell, 1998)
6. Robert Tignor et al., Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A History of the Modern World from the Mongol Empire to the Present (New York: W. W. Norton, 2002), xxvi
7. Another textbook that takes a thematic rather than regional approach is Paul V. Adams et al., Experiencing World History (New York: New York Univ. Press, 2000)
8. Anthony Pagden, European Encounters with the New World: From Renaissance to Romanticism (New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press, 1993)
9. This is not to deny the importance of Alfred W Crosby's work, including The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1972)
10. and Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1986)
11. A short list of monographs includes Steve J. Stern, Peru's Indian Peoples and the Challenge of Conquest: Huamanga to 1640 (Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1982)
12. Nancy M. Farriss, Maya Society under Colonial Rule: The Collective Enterprise of Survival (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1984)
13. Inga Clendinnen, Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517-1570 (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1987)
14. James Lockhart, The Nahuas after the Conquest: A Social and Cultural History of the Indians of Central Mexico, Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries (Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 1992)
15. Serge Gruzinski, Man-Gods in the Mexican Highlands: Indian Power and Colonial Society, 1520-1800 (Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 1989)
16. and his The Mestizo Mind: The Intellectual Dynamics of Colonization and Globalization (New York: Routledge, 2002)
17. For North America, see the work of Richard White, The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1991)
18. and James Axtell's numerous books, including Beyond 1492: Encounters in Colonial North America (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1992)
19. and The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures in Colonial North America (New York Oxford Univ. Press, 1985)
20. Stern, Peru's Indian Peoples
21. Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (Boston: Beacon Press, 1995), chap. 3
22. Stearns, World History in Brief, 455
23. C. L. R. James, Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution, rev. 2nd ed. (1938; New York: Vintage Books, 1963)
24. See also Carolyn E. Fick, The Making of Haiti: The Saint Domingue Revolution from Below (Knoxville: Univ. of Tennessee Press, 1990), for a close analysis of how Haiti's insurgent slave masses pursued actions and developed a consciousness of their interests independent of - and sometimes at odds with - their leaders
25. See Jean Franco, The Modern Culture of Latin America: Society and the Artist, rev. ed. (Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin Books, 1970)
26. In the mid-1960s, Andre Guilder Frank proposed a framework - "the development of underdevelopment" - that placed Latin America into the discourse on world history. Andre Gunder Frank, Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America: Historical Studies of Chile and Brazil (New York: Monthly Review, 1967). Dependency theory was further elaborated by Raul Prebisch and other social scientists affiliated with the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America
27. See Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Enzo Faletto, Dependency and Development in Latin America, trans. Marjory Matringly Urquidi (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1979)
28. and Cristobal Kay, Latin American Theories of Development and Underdevelopment (New York; Routledge, 1989)
29. Paulo Freire is best known for his pathbreaking book, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, trans. Myra Bergman Ramos (New York: Herder and Herder, 1970)
30. On liberation theology in Latin America, see Philip Berryman, Liberation Theology: Essential Facts about the Revolutionary Movement in Latin America (Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press, 1987)
31. A useful recent historiographical essay is Sucann Caulfield, "The History of Gender in the Historiography of Latin America," Hispanic American Historical Review 81, nos. 3-4 (2001)
32. Verena Martínez-Alier, Marriage, Class, and Colour in Nineteenth-Century Cuba: A Study of Racial Attitudes and Sexual Values in a Slave Society (1974; Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 1989)
33. Irene Silverblatt, Moon, Sun, and Witches: Gender Ideologies and Class in Inca and Colonial Peru (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1987)
34. On the gendering of citizenship see, for example, Elizabeth Dore and Maxine Molyneux, eds., Hidden Histories of Gender and the State in Latin America (Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press, 2000)
35. On development and the international division of labor see, for example, Helen I. Safa, The Myth of the Male Breadwinner: Women and Industrialization in the Caribbean (Boulder: Westview, 1995)
36. June Nash and María Patricia Fernández-Kelly, eds., Women, Men, and the International Division of Labor (Albany: SUNY Press, 1983)
37. Lourdes Beneria and Martha Roldán, The Crossroads of Class and Gender: Industrial Homework, Subcontracting, and Household Dynamics in Mexico City (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1987)
38. Jane S. Jaquette, ed., The Women's Movement in Latin America: Participation and Democracy, 2nd ed. (Boulder: Westview, 1994)
39. Among the many testimonials are Elvia Alvarado, Don't Be Afraid Gringo: A Honduran Woman Speaks from the Heart, trans. and ed. Medea Benjamin (San Francisco: Institute for Food and Development Policy, 1987)
40. María de los Reyes Castillo Bueno, Reyita: The Life of a Black Cuban Woman in the Twentieth Century (Durham: Duke Univ. Press, 2000)
41. Domitila Barrios de Chungara, with Moema Viezzer, Let Me Speak! Testimony of Domitila, a Woman of the Bolivian Mines (New York Monthly Review, 1978)
42. Oscar Lewis, Ruth Lewis, and Susan Rigdon, eds., Four Women Living the Revolution: An Oral History of Contemporary Cuba (Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1977)
43. Carolina Maria de Jesus, The Unedited Diaries of Carolina Maria de Jesus, ed. Robert M. Levine and José Carlos Sebe Bom Meihy (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers Univ. Press, 1999)
44. and Rigoberta Menchú, with Elisabeth Burgos-Debray, I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala (New York: Shocken Books, 1984)
45. See Fred Spier, The Structure of Big History: From the Big Bang to Today (Amsterdam: Amsterdam Univ. Press, 1996)
46. and Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (New York: W. W. Norton, 1997)