Suchergebnisse

In the study of agrarian politics in general and the history of rural Colombia in particular, four broad, interrelated perspectives are relevant to the understanding of rural politics: peasants and rebellion, the interaction of local and national politics, patron-client relations, and regionalism. Principal issues and trends within each of these areas are explored here, and an effort is made to generate specific questions for historical investigation. The present state of research on rural history and politics in Colombia is also surveyed, and observations are advanced on how new research orientations originating in these perspectives may contribute to our understanding of social and political developments in Colombia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Frontmatter -- American Encounters/Globallnteractions -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- I: Theoretical Concerns -- Close Encounters: Toward a New Cultural History of U.S.-Latin American Relations -- The Decentered Center and the Expansionist Periphery: The Paradoxes of Foreign-Local Encounter -- The Enterprise of Knowledge: Representational Machines of Informal Empire -- II: Empirical Studies -- Landscape and the Imperial Subject: US. Images of the Andes, 1859- 1930 -- Love in the Tropics: Marriage, Divorce, and the Construction of Benevolent Colonialism in Puerto Rico, 1898-1910 -- Mercenaries in the Theater of War: Publicity, Technology, and the Illusion of Power during the Brazilian Naval Revolt of 1893 -- The Sandino Rebellion Revisited: Civil War, Imperialism, Popular Nationalism, and State Formation Muddied Up Together in the Segovias of Nicaragua, 1926-1934 -- The Cult of the Airplane among US. Military Men and Dominicans during the US. Occupation and the Trujillo Regime -- Central American Encounters with Rockefeller Public Health, 1914-1921 -- Living in Macondo: Economy and Culture in a United Fruit Company Banana Enclave in Colombia -- From Welfare Capitalism to the Free Market in Chile: Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Copper Mines -- Everyday Forms of Transnational Collaboration: US. Film Propaganda in Cold War Mexico -- Gringo Chickens with Worms: Food and Nationalism in the Dominican Republic -- III: Final Reflections -- Turning to Culture -- Social Fields and Cultural Encounters -- From Reading to Seeing: Doing and Undoing Imperialism in the Visual Arts -- Contributors -- Index