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Article: Close Encounters of Empire: Writing the Cultural History of U.S.-Latin American Relations.(Review)
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- Canadian Journal of History
- Article date:
- August 1, 1999
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Close Encounters of Empire: Writing the Cultural History of U.S.-Latin American Relations, edited by Gilbert M. Joseph, Catherine C. LeGrand, and Ricardo D. Salvatore. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 1998. xv, 575 pp. $59.95 (cloth), $20.00 (paper).
In the fifty years after 1940, the English-language historical literature of U.S.-Latin American relations was written largely by diplomatic and political historians of the United States. Their methodologies emphasized power politics, the state, diplomatic ties, and economic relations. After 1980, influenced by Louis Perez, Friedrich Katz, and other historians of Latin America, the field shifted away ...